Volleyball
Dynamo beat Zenit in the first round of the Volleyball Legends Cup
Volleyball players Dynamo / Photo: © VK Dynamo
Moscow Dynamo defeated St. Petersburg Zenit in the final match of the first round of the group stage of the Volleyball Legends Cup.
The match took place in Krasnoyarsk. Dynamo won with a score of 3-1 (18:25, 25:19, 25:14, 25:23).
Zenit and Dynamo are playing in Group B. In the next match, Zenit will play against Belgorod’s Belogorye, and Dynamo will play against Krasnoyarsk’s Yenisei. The matches will be held on August 30 in Moscow.
Group A will feature Kazan’s Zenit, Novosibirsk’s Lokomotiv, Kemerovo’s Kuzbass and Novy Urengoy’s Fakel Yamal. They will play their first round matches in Kazan, and the second round games will be held in Novosibirsk.
The teams that take the first two places in their groups will play in the Final Four. The prize fund of the Legends Cup is 10 million rubles, the tournament is part of the Russian Cup and will end in October.
Source: Sportbox
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