Lausanne, Switzerland, May 22, 2018 - European champions Serbia clash with Poland Wednesday in Macau, looking to extend their 2018 FIVB Volleyball Nations League record to 4-1 and their head-to-head count in world competitions to 4-2 - though Poland haven't beaten Serbia in six years, since the 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix.
Head-to-Head
• Serbia (including Yugoslavia and Serbia & Montenegro) have recorded three wins and two defeats against Poland at major world level tournaments.
• The women's world level major competitions are: the VNL, Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup, World Grand Prix and Grand Champions Cup.
• Poland's two wins both came in five sets, at the 2007 World Cup and at the 2012 World Grand Prix.
• Their most recent meeting at major world level came at the 2013 World Grand Prix, where Serbia won 3-1 in the preliminary round.
• Poland won each of their first eight matches against Serbia (including Yugoslavia and Serbia & Montenegro) at the European Championships, before losing their last three.
Poland
• Poland's VNL record is L-W-L-W. Both victories were five-setters.
• The last time Poland won three five-setters in a row at world level major tournaments was from 2004 to 2005.
• Poland have lost the opening set in six of their last seven major world level matches, including all four in the VNL.
• Malwina Smarzek has been Poland's leading scorer in all four of their VNL, including amassing 35 points against China on 22 May.
• Smarzek's 35 points in the VNL win against China on 22 May was equal to the combined total of the next four leading Polish points scorers in that match.
Serbia
• Serbia have won three of their four VNL matches, with the only exception a 3-1 defeat against Brazil.
• Serbia have won six consecutive world level major tournament matches against European opposition, since a 3-2 defeat against The Netherlands at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
• Of Serbia's last five defeats at world level major tournaments, four came after they had won the opening set.
• Tijana Boskovic (65) is Serbia's leading VNL scorer, with 30 of those points amassed against Thailand on 22 May.