{"id":352352,"date":"2026-06-17T17:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=352352"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:31:57","slug":"kate-antropova-powers-italy-past-czechia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/kate-antropova-powers-italy-past-czechia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Antropova powers Italy past Czechia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"FOR_target_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_682141\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-682141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Antropova and Italy during a game vs Czechia within the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) women\u2019s week 2 at Philsports Arena in Pasig City. \u2013VOLLEYBALL WORLD PHOTO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Kate Antropova caught fire from the service line, nailing six aces to steer Italy\u2019s 25-18, 25-21, 25-22 sweep of Czechia within the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) women\u2019s week 2 on Wednesday at Philsports Arena in Pasig City.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-8 Antropova stood tall with 21 points, including 14 kills and a block, as defending champion Italy improved to 4-1, bouncing back from a five-set loss to Brazil last week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"billboard_article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Italians built a 17-8 lead from Antropova\u2019s ace, but Czechia fought back and cut it right down to 21-20 after Helena Grozer\u2019s hit. Sarah Luisa Fahr scored back-to-back kills, followed by Josephine Obossa\u2019s attack to assist them reach match point, 24-20.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Czechs saved two match points, but Antropova\u2019s point sealed the match in an hour and half-hour.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kate Antropova fires six aces in Italy\u2019s 25-18, 25-21, 25-22 win over Czechia. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BePartofTheGame?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BePartofTheGame<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LanceAgcaoilINQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LanceAgcaoilINQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yDJXaBuTQ3\">pic.twitter.com\/yDJXaBuTQ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 INQUIRER Sports (@inquirersports) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/inquirersports\/status\/2067184282083406016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really joyful to start out a brand new week. We all know that playing against Brazil was hard and we\u2019re really joyful with the result. It\u2019s not fun losing but it surely\u2019s an ideal match to learn from,\u201d said Antropova.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ztoop\">\n<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i>\t\t  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI feel we showed an ideal start. Sometimes we had difficult moments in the sport but we were able to avoid wasting the team and I\u2019m also joyful with all of the stuff that went great. We\u2019re working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fahr delivered 13 points. Stella Nervini had 12, while Obossa added nine points ahead of Italy\u2019s next battle against Serbia on Thursday at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Czechia slid to a 3-2 record, before facing United States, also on Thursday at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Monika Brancuska powered the Czechs with 16 points, while Michaela Mlejnkova added 11.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Antropova and Italy during a game vs Czechia within the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) women\u2019s week 2 at Philsports Arena in Pasig City. \u2013VOLLEYBALL WORLD PHOTO MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Kate Antropova caught fire from the service line, nailing six aces to steer Italy\u2019s 25-18, 25-21, 25-22 sweep of Czechia within the Volleyball Nations League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[52938,20357,9059,3605,6357],"class_list":["post-352352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-antropova","tag-czechia","tag-italy","tag-kate","tag-powers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352355,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352352\/revisions\/352355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}