20 Moments When Melissa Vargas Shocked the World

Vargas hammers that one through, over the block. A little smarter, nice speed of that approach. Takes a little turn on her hand, so she's not going exactly where she was facing. Kalach up front right now, she has five blocks today. There she goes, ball is good. Another block, Vargas and Kalach combined. And here's the thing, when the serve is going in and has a little bit of heat on it, the blockers are in a good place. This is a good blocking team. I'm sure I said that in the beginning of the match. You probably did, you probably did. Here's Vargas, oh my goodness. That might have been the biggest spike we've seen all week here in Appledorn. For Turkey's side. The answer, the tighter set for Melissa Vargas, so she can hit her angles or she can hit it off the block. They have figured that out. That was exactly what their coach said during his 21 years old, number 30. Yoshino, okay that block has been tested quite enough. Tested and approved. Already five blocks on the Turkish side just in this set alone. That's a huge difference. That one there's six, but it's really about them closing. Perfect. And Brazil knows it's still here. A perfect set. Shaheen playing it. Good job for Brazil. That's a big one for the team, but big for Vargas too. When she left the court the last time, she was not feeling great about herself. This is a nice move, a good step close. A comeback here. Shaheen one step off the net. Vargas still full power. This time to the outside. That distribution causing trouble on the block of Korea. No such trouble for Turkey. Perfectly set up and executed. That's it. Low and over. Completely sealing the net. Take a look at this. Block well formed. Nowhere to go. Outside hitter, Ila fits the center. She handles the first pass. Vargas drills that one. Let's talk about bettering the ball, Matt. Well, what a swing. You know who bettered that ball was the center. Running all the way across the net. Watch. Sending it against the flow, reversing it, and then Vargas going over the line blocker's hands and down. Brazil with a slight advantage. Three points, but Vargas does not like that. I was waiting for that. I had a feeling out of the timeout, maybe. And it was smooth. Just nice and easy. Didn't have to hit. Julie Bergman on the serve. Vargas from the back. And that is an absolute bullet. That was a perfect set. Right off the sideline. Gives her some room to hit that line outside of the block. Airs by. Guara. Sent back with the block. Ishikawa sent back with the block with an exclamation point. Turkey would love to lean into this more and more. We haven't seen a lot of times in this set or even in the last set where Japan have gotten impatient and swung low. That's where Turkey have the advantage. Floats it. Rodriguez puts it right on the money. But that is a huge defense to play from Turkey. That's one of those plays that the ball is off the ground. Somehow stays alive. March, march, march. That brings up the third match point opportunity. Italy leading by five. Vargas with a rip. They played this ball. Orga didn't want them to at all. DiGennaro. Silla. Play stays alive. Here's Vargas. That ends it finally. Incredible job. Of course the first ball was played out of bounds. Kept it alive and Vargas was like. Keita out of it. Sprick. What a dig. Brilliant Lubeiro play. Textbook Lubeiro play. Read it. Passed it. Top moon. It's up and over for Vargas. Somehow the ball is still alive here. Canada with a chance with Mitrovic. Karakurt. Backcourt. Allard gets Canada back into sixth down. But still they can't get through that formidable defense. Vargas is absolutely on fire here. The defense of Turkey is so underrated sometimes. I almost didn't feel like the match had started yet. But it has. That one counts. On the scoreboard. For the Dominican who are on the left side of your screen. Turkey in the red on the right. And we'll see what kind of night Vargas is going to have on the right side. I have a feeling she's going to go off. This is her kind of environment. And seeing the block. Vargas. Into the block. Karakurt with the pickup. Jansu. There's a big high looping set. The Canada block had time to form. But that doesn't matter. When you've got someone in the form. That Vargas is in at 94 kilometers an hour. She goes line. High ball outside to the youngster. Rolled off the hands and recycled. Korea. Still swinging like they're not. It's difficult when you've got that big block in front of you. You don't want to swing right into it. But you also don't want to swing easy. That's a beautiful shot by Vargas. There's the serve. Taken well by Orga. And then slammed down by Vargas. That's the swing that Vargas has been looking for. She's gotten touched a couple of times. But this is a high set that she hits down the line outside of the outside block. Down by three. Late in the opening set. Vargas, that's how you get it started. Go to number four. The MVP of the VNL just two years ago. The top scorer in Paris last year. I'd expect a heavy dose of Vargas for the rest of the set. But she can do things like that. You've got to give the ball to her. But it's going to get away from you because you cannot sustain that. Back outside to Martina. She finds that tight. She will find a huge Turkish block. And this is where the Dominicans need to keep it together. Make sure they're not looking to one another. Getting upset with each other for not covering. Good serve. They're scrambling. Yaprak tries the tip. Up from Van Allen. Someone's got to set it. Dunbrink couldn't finish. Had a system on the other side as well. But they're scoring anyway with Vargas. They talked about the tighter sets in their previous week in Turkey. And how they wanted to get Vargas a little bit tighter. Allow her to hit off the hands or over top. And you can see this ball beautifully placed for her. A little trouble on serve receive. Nice pick up from Stewart. Here's Dunbrink trying to make something out of nothing. Now Kadikert. She knows how to do that. Right on the head of the setter. They come again, Turkey A. The power tip from Kadikert doesn't go. Vargas. How did she do that? Oh, good. Chopping that ball into the space on the court. Where there is no defender. Take a look at Vargas. So smart with what she's doing. And catches everyone. 13 points already for Antropova. Fifth in scoring in this match. Hasn't even played half of it. Yaprak, dug. Nervini, off hands. Good job by Shaheen. Vargas from well back. Scores anyway. My goodness.