FINA: Women’s Water Polo World League 2019: Russia and Italy take lead of respective group

The FINA Women’s Water Polo World League 2019 resumed in Europe with the preliminary phase.

On January 9, Spain defeated Israel 13-6 in Netanya (ISR) (3-1, 3-1, 4-4, 3-0), while the Hungarians narrowly  won 14-13 against the Dutch on Saturday January 12 in The Hague (NED) (4-2, 3-2, 3-2, 0-4) after extra time (4-3).

Last night, Tuesday January 15, Russia played Greece at home in Ruza and ended up winning the game 17-13 (5-3, 5-4, 4-3, 3-3) and Italy defeated the Netherlands 9-6 in Trieste (ITA) (4-0, 2-2, 1-2, 2-2). Also last night, France lost 5-12 to Hungary in (1-2, 1-3, 1-5, 2-2).

Provisional ranking
GROUP A: 1. Russia 14pts ; 2. Spain 10pts ; 3. Greece 6pts ; 4. Israel 0 
GROUP B: 1. Italy 12pts; 2. Hungary 9pts; 3. Netherlands 3; 4. France 0

The next women’s Game Day will be on February 12.

The Men’s World League European preliminaries resumes on January 29 with six matches.

Sources:

FINA