Volleyball World Grand Prix 2010

The 2010 Volleyball World Grand Prix season was the 18th edition of the competition. It started on August 6th and ended on August 29th.

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In the preliminary round, twelve teams competed. In the first three weeks three tournaments with four teams took place in parallel. The five best teams in the overall standings qualified for the final round alongside hosts China.

Preliminary round

First week

space	team	sentences	Points	BPQ
Group A in São Carlos ( Brazil )
1.	Brazil Brazil	7: 3	6th	1.197
2.	Japan Japan	6: 4	6th	1.131
3.	Italy Italy	7: 4	6th	1.040
4th	Taiwan Taiwan	0: 9	0	0.658

space	team	sentences	Points	BPQ
Group B in Gdynia ( Poland )
1.	Poland Poland	9: 2	9	1,112
2.	Germany Germany	6: 7	4th	0.990
3.	United States United States	5: 7	3	1.064
4th	Dominican Republic Dominican Republic	4: 8	2	0.861

6th of August	Brazil	Taiwan	3-0
	Italy	Japan	1: 3
August 7th	Brazil	Japan	3-0
	Taiwan	Italy	0: 3
8th August	Brazil	Italy	1: 3
	Japan	Taiwan	3-0

6th of August	Dominican R.	United States	1: 3
	Poland	Germany	3: 1
August 7th	Poland	Dominican R.	3-0
	United States	Germany	1: 3
8th August	Poland	United States	3: 1
	Germany	Dominican R.	2: 3

space	team	sentences	Points	BPQ
Group C in Chengdu ( China )
1.	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	9: 1	9	1.251
2.	Netherlands Netherlands	7: 3	6th	1.138
3.	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico	3: 6	3	0.819
4th	Thailand Thailand	0: 9	0	0.831

6th of August	Netherlands	Thailand	3-0
	China	Puerto Rico	3-0
August 7th	Puerto Rico	Netherlands	0: 3
	Thailand	China	0: 3
8th August	Thailand	Puerto Rico	0: 3
	China	Netherlands	3: 1

Second week

space	team	sentences	Points	BPQ
Group D in Bangkok ( Thailand )
1.	United States United States	9: 2	9	1.264
2.	Italy Italy	7: 4	6th	1.097
3.	Thailand Thailand	4: 7	3	0.937
4th	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico	2: 9	0	0.762

space	team	sentences	Points	BPQ
Group E in Macau ( People's Republic of China )
1.	Brazil Brazil	9: 1	9	1,365
2.	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	5: 6	4th	0.974
3.	Dominican Republic Dominican Republic	5: 8	3	0.897
4th	Netherlands Netherlands	4: 8	2	0.886

13 August	United States	Italy	3: 1
	Thailand	Puerto Rico	3: 1
August 14th	Puerto Rico	Italy	0: 3
	United States	Thailand	3-0
15th of August	Puerto Rico	United States	1: 3
	Italy	Thailand	3: 1

13 August	Brazil	Dominican R.	3-0
	China	Netherlands	3-0
August 14th	Brazil	Netherlands	3: 1
	China	Dominican R.	2: 3
15th of August	Netherlands	Dominican R.	3: 2
	China	Brazil	0: 3

space	team	sentences	Points	BPQ
Group F in Okayama ( Japan )
1.	Japan Japan	9: 2	9	1.306
2.	Poland Poland	7: 4	6th	1.079
3.	Germany Germany	5: 6	3	0.965
4th	Taiwan Taiwan	0: 9	0	0.675

13 August	Taiwan	Poland	0: 3
	Japan	Germany	3: 1
August 14th	Germany	Taiwan	3-0
	Japan	Poland	3: 1
15th of August	Germany	Poland	1: 3
	Japan	Taiwan	3-0

Third week

space	team	sentences	Points	BPQ
Group G in Hong Kong ( China )
1.	United States United States	9: 1	9	1.444
2.	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	7: 4	6th	1.016
3.	Thailand Thailand	4: 7	3	0.935
4th	Germany Germany	1: 9	0	0.742

space	team	sentences	Points	BPQ
Group H in Taipei ( Taiwan )
1.	Brazil Brazil	9-0	9	1.455
2.	Poland Poland	6: 3	6th	1.169
3.	Taiwan Taiwan	3: 8	2	0.783
4th	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico	2: 9	1	0.832

20th of August	Germany	United States	0: 3
	China	Thailand	3: 1
August 21	Thailand	United States	0: 3
	China	Germany	3-0
August 22nd	Germany	Thailand	1: 3
	China	United States	1: 3

20th of August	Brazil	Puerto Rico	3-0
	Poland	Thailand	3-0
August 21	Puerto Rico	Poland	0: 3
	Taiwan	Brazil	0: 3
August 22nd	Taiwan	Puerto Rico	3-0
	Brazil	Poland	3: 2

space	team	sentences	Points	BPQ
Group I in Tokyo ( Japan )
1.	Italy Italy	8: 4	7th	1.077
2.	Netherlands Netherlands	6: 5	5	0.973
3.	Japan Japan	6: 7	4th	1.043
4th	Dominican Republic Dominican Republic	4: 8	2	0.908

20th of August	Italy	Netherlands	3-0
	Japan	Dominican R.	3: 1
August 21	Dominican R.	Netherlands	0: 3
	Japan	Italy	1: 3
August 22nd	Dominican R.	Italy	3: 2
	Japan	Netherlands	2: 3

Overall rating

space	team	sentences	Points	BPQ
1.	Brazil Brazil	25: 4	24	1.329
2.	United States United States	23:10	21st	1.230
3.	Poland Poland	22: 9	21st	1.115
4th	Japan Japan	21:13	19th	1,145
5.	Italy Italy	22:12	19th	1.071
6th	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	21:11	19th	1.070
7th	Netherlands Netherlands	17:16	13	0.986
8th.	Dominican Republic Dominican Republic	13:24	7th	0.889
9.	Germany Germany	12:22	7th	0.905
10.	Thailand Thailand	8:23	6th	0.803
11.	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico	7:24	4th	0.803
12.	Taiwan Taiwan	3:26	2	0.709

Final round

The final round was held from August 25th to 29th in Ningbo ( People's Republic of China ).

space	team	sentences	Points	BPQ
1.	United States United States	15: 4	13	1.066
2.	Brazil Brazil	13: 7	11	1,233
3.	Italy Italy	8:10	7th	0.940
4th	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	6:10	6th	0.925
5.	Japan Japan	8:13	4th	0.940
6th	Poland Poland	7:13	4th	0.925

August 25	United States	Poland	3: 2
	Brazil	Japan	2: 3
	China	Italy	0: 3
26th of August	United States	Italy	3-0
	Poland	Brazil	1: 3
	China	Japan	3: 1
August 27	Japan	Italy	3: 2
	Brazil	United States	2: 3
	China	Poland	3-0
August 28th	Poland	Japan	3: 1
	Brazil	Italy	3-0
	China	United States	0: 3
29th August	Japan	United States	0: 3
	Italy	Poland	3: 1
	China	Brazil	0: 3

Awards

Most valuable player	Foluke Akinradewo	United States United States
Best scorer	Saori Kimura	Japan Japan
Best attacker	Jaqueline Carvalho	Brazil Brazil
Best blocker	Foluke Akinradewo	United States United States
Best server	Wang Yimei	China People's Republic People's Republic of China
Best Libera	Zhang Xian	China People's Republic People's Republic of China
Best player	Alisha Glass	United States United States

Web links

Information from the FIVB (English)