"Next we will have the European Championship which is the most important for us. I hope my team will play at the same level in the European Championship."

It was Serbia who started the opening set stronger and found themselves leading 8-5 at the first TTO with an ace produced by Brakocevic.

However, a series of unexpected serve-errors gave a chance to the Russians to cut their deficit to one point. The awe-inspiring spikes from Brakocevic and Sanja Malagurski helped Serbia keep on course and take control.

Before long the Serbians extended the advantage from 11-9 to 16-9. The Russians used a 4-0 run to pull within 23-21 thanks to a block on the Serbian wing spike, but the Serbians carried the lead till the end of the set.

Serbia jumped into the second set aggressively leading 4-1 with Malagurski striking three successive sharp spikes from the wing, forcing the Russian head coach to call a timeout.

However, Russia did not lose touch with the Serbians and countered attack with two concrete blockings on the Serbian side to close the gap to two points.

But Serbia powered on again as Malagurski continued her unstoppable spikes to help enlarge the margin to 22-16 and Rasic Milena took another set in favor of Serbia with a middle hitting.

The Russian women, who lost to Serbia 3-1 in their pool A match on Thursday, put up no serious resistance in the third set.

"In the beginning of this tournament our aim was to prove and to see how our core players would perform in this competition, and we can see that our players still need a lot of improvement," said Russia head coach Vladimir Kuzyutkin.

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