December 2
2025
– 2:30 pm
(Updated at 2:30 p.m.)
Foley Renata’s service performance in the 3-0 win over Suzano, on Monday (12/1), is the perfect world for any team on the planet.
Photo: Jogada10
The performance was more than enough for “internal consumption” in the Superliga and will be a good way to compete against European teams in the World Cup in Belém, starting from the 16th.
Yesterday there were 14 aces in just three sets. According to Felipe Lima, Ore, performance analyst at Vôlei Renata, the figure is the highest for the project since 2017.
Since then, the São Paulo side has scored 13 service points in a win over Taubate in 2017, and in a defeat to Canoas in 2018. The big difference: Both matches were decided in a tiebreaker.
“The weight of the spoils” is a recurring theme on the international scene. This applies to national team and club matches.
Even before he took over as coach of the Brazilian national team, Bernardinho warned of the necessity of developing the yellow-green team’s serve to confront its main rivals. In the last World Cup, for example, in an early elimination match, serving was a key affair that left a lot to be desired.
Sada Cruzeiro, in her great international achievements in the Marcelo Mendes era and later with Felipe Ferraz, always enhanced the build-up of her game well through the power of her serve.
Statistics prove it
And see how the numbers rule out the chance factor of who serves well. Zawiercie, Vôlei Renata’s opponent in the World Cup, leads the Polish tournament and has the most aces in the competition: 77. This season, in a four-set match, the team left the court with 12 aces. The other two matches ended in tiebreaks, 11 points on serve in each.
In Italy, Verona’s good performance has a lot to do with Darlan and Keita. They lead the league in ace rankings with 23 and 21 respectively in eight matches.
In our Superliga, Vôlei Renata now owns three of the top eight servers in this edition: Judson, Adriano and Maurício Borges. And based on the foundation, which still relies on Pinta and Bruninho, other good players, the project has the right to dream big in the World Cup.