Thaisa Menezes Played the Match of Her Career Against Serbia !!! Women's VNL 2023
Aug 20, 2025
Thaisa Menezes Played the Match of Her Career Against Serbia !!! Women's VNL 2023. Check out this amazing volleyball highlights of Thaisa Menezes against Serbia in Women's Volleyball Nations League 2023.
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Thaísa Daher de Menezes, also known as Thaísa Menezes or Thaísa Daher, is a professional volleyball player from Brazil. She won back-to-back gold medals at the Olympics in 2008 and 2012. She has won numerous Best Spiker and Best Blocker Awards and is often singled out as one of the greatest Brazilian players of all time.
The Brazil women's national volleyball team is administrated by the Confederação Brasileira de Voleibol (CBV) and takes part in international volleyball competitions. It is ranked second in the FIVB World Rankings as of August 2021.[1][2] They are the current record holder of FIVB World Grand Prix champion titles, having won it for the eleventh time in 2016 and are the gold medalists of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The team also get a gold in Pan American Games in 2011.
Milenkovich is in.
Taissa offers a belated apology to Tadej Ljubusic.
That's what's going to happen if you give Brazil essentially a free ball.
That's a really easy ball coming in just to easily pass up.
Give Taissa the ball, it's going to come back at you.
Taissa is over.
See Taissa just misses such a dominant swing.
Bergman with the pass, Bergman with the attack.
Nothing doing, Yegditsch is there again and it ends up as a really nice pass.
Lovely bit of reflex work there from Lazovic.
But you don't stop that.
You're not stopping Taissa in that range.
You can see how excited Taissa was about this ball.
It was about 8 feet off the net and Magritte still gets her going.
And then seeing the two blockers there.
I wonder if the chance has gone here for this first set comeback.
The touch, it certainly did.
Taissa making sure of that.
This Brazil team is not going to quit, especially when you have a middle like Taissa in here.
She's going to take big swings in a big moment.
Now Brazil can too.
7-3, set two.
Kesey staying at the end line.
Lazovic getting underneath that one.
Here she comes again and she's got Brie Lipson this time.
Getting blocked out of it, back to back stop blocks.
And Brazil have got a stranglehold in this second set here.
For the lack of blocks in the first set, they are making up for it here in set two.
Started against Korea yesterday and got benched for Uzalats.
She's come in completely refreshed and recharged.
Orbusia not really getting underneath that one.
Lozo was going to try and take that on and it was an impossible position to be in.
Especially with Taissa on the other side.
And then Friede Reut, no, nothing doing for her.
Oleksii, she's back there.
Lozo with more of a chance.
But again, Taissa this time says, uh-uh, don't bring it here.
Great adjustment, Taissa.
Getting all the way out to the pin.
She's done such a great job of closing these blocks up tonight.
And not being lazy with some of these.
Because sometimes you can get complacent and just go up.
But she's closing them.
Fired up and motivated at the start of set three.
The Serbia captain.
Nice pass, caused a problem for Priscilla.
And a lovely little finish there from Taissa.
How sweet was that?
Taissa rarely tips the ball.
And that's what makes this tip so effective.
Is you're really used to her just swinging all out.
But she takes a little bit off and places it great to catch the defense off guard.
That was bringing some heat.
Ace from Taissa.
Taissa has been back on that service line for a decent amount of time.
Just putting in bullets right at Serbia.
This time getting the ace on them.
Really working that back corner, trying to get Lozo out of system.
Here comes Carroll firing back.
Lozo with a lovely pass.
Oh, Taissa, you think she enjoyed that one?
One-on-one.
Great lead from Taissa.
Staying with her middle and taking away that shot.
Milkovic has had to cover some ground here.
And Bialitsa can't get past McCrease.
Maiara turns set to Kesey with the little push there.
But that won't find a home.
Bialitsa runs into another block.
Taissa.
Ho-ho.
Also you, also you.
When you're Taissa, you need to use linear block out.
Don't slide the linear out from the six, okay?
That one's good.
Lozo picks it up.
Milkovic, no winner for her.
Picked up by Maiara once again.
Milkovic can't find a winner there either.
Pusic keeping that alive.
Lozo attacking it, but nothing doing again.
Guess who?
You can just tell how tight this Brazil team is.
After every time they get a big point,
it's like the tightest huddle you've ever seen.
This time Taissa leading the charge after a big block.
Thirteen service errors tonight for Serbia.
Kesey serves Bucher.
What a pass that is.
And then Stavanovic runs into the block.
Pusic with a wonderful reflex rescue.
Lozo will take it on again.
Straight into the block.
Bucher turns center.
Lozo again into the block.
No way through.
Just nowhere to go.
If Carroll doesn't get you, Taissa will.
Taissa getting the block on this one,
but you see six different Serbian players right there.
Someone could have made a play on that.
You have three people looking at each other.
Serbia needing a point on serve to draw level.
To go upstairs, it was so close, but you know what?
She's hitting everything.
She knew right when that ball landed, right on that end line.
That was like, don't bother, don't bother.
Fitting.
Yeah, one of her two Olympic gold medals.
Lozo going into the block.
Nowhere to go.
Taissa's there again.
This is just unbelievable.
This is Taissa's game at this point.
Seven blocks on the night.
Just putting them straight down.
You've been away for five years,
and you come back, you're playing like this.
Wow.
What a story.
This is incredible.
What's going to happen now?
There's the player to check out,
as Aleksandar Uzalac is brought in once again.
Gunsy call from the coach.
And the slide from Taissa.
Well, everything's working.
She touches it.
It's like gold.
She's got the Midas touch to her tonight.
Stick her in the back row.
She's coming up with digs.
In the service line, putting in aces.
We'll see what she does.
This is just outrageous from Taissa.
A very, very popular player here.
It's not the greatest of passes.
That's why you get blocked out.
Bielitsa was there to rescue the situation.
Nothing doing for Uzalac.
And Priscilla DeRoy instead says,
I'll take care of this.
No cross-court winner there.
Just took it off the block instead.
Taissa stepping in with a confident back set as well.
Check out this at middle of your screen.
She just sends it back.
Beautiful.
Paul Reitzenroich to put it down the sidebar.
Bielitsa on serve.
Kreese will go for the quick one inside.
Taissa is denied.
Does she take it again?
No.
It'll be to Priscilla DeRoy.
She's denied.
She'll take it on again and find nothing but nylon.
And Serbia do claw one of those points back.
Nice defensive work from the Serbs.
Serbia starting to transition just a little bit better and better.
And they've got to get some momentum here if they want to catch up.
Only down two.
But it feels like they're down more just with this building erupting every time.
Boucher's made a mess of that one.
Brilliantly kept alive by Bielitsa.
Who's got to hustle back now because they've got to do some blocking.
That's a lovely pick up as well.
Lozo into the block.
And that's going to go too far.
Great defensive work.
Bielitsa with a wonderful dig to help keep that alive off the poor pass.
Lozo just attacking Taissa.
Which is a risky...
This for the match.
Boucher with the pass.
It's a good pass.
Lozo into the block.
Taissa and Macri send it back together.
And how appropriate that this one ends on a block point for Brazil.
Because they have blocked the life out of Serbia through these last two sets.