Serbia🇷🇸 vs. Netherlands🇳🇱 - Highlights | Week 3 | Women's VNL 2026

Rob Snook, Kennedy Mason with the call, Jonathan Ledger on the floor with the interviews and we are underway. Czajic's attack is over on one. Serbia comes again, the pipe attack from Czajic. The first attack was Uzelac, in fact, ball in the hands of Aleksandra Uzelac, a 21-year-old who scored 31 points against the Dutch last year. Guess what? Starts with an ace. This middle blocker in the Serbian Superliga in recent years. Her serve is deep. Maybe would have been going out. Racing didn't get enough help. Mirkovic couldn't quite hear what head coach Zoran Tirzic had to say, so she had to move closer to him. Crowd is loud. That's better, but it's handled by Serbia. Gocenin with the dig set to Czajic. She rips it right to the middle in the back. Czajic, a great player for making something out of nothing and this is no exception. Up in that neck shoulder area. Netherlands need some good serves now. Here's Bongarts. Overhand take smartly. Cook gets it up. They get it up and over the net from Bongarts. Free ball chance for Serbia and center dunk from Mirkovic. You'll start to get red, you'll start to get dug and it's just kind of giving the ball away, but this from Mirkovic is so clever because she knows the Netherlands are just coming back into their defensive positions. Jasper, the 30-year-old who plays at Rzeszow in Poland, serving. And Serbia is establishing the slide with their middle Nina Ozmaic. Really nice set and again Mirkovic just disguised. Anna Kordogic, three aces in the VNL and Jasper gets shot down on the monster block by Ozmaic. She just tracks that so well. Kordogic, good take by Jansen. Dombrynk gets a first real swing and then it's swatted down by Stutt. Here this opening set. Stutt sends it at Czajic. Bump setting for Uzaloc and she goes right to the back corner. Piece of cake. That was so beautiful. She doesn't have the best of angles off that set either. It's really, really... She is, but Bongarts been with the team for many years establishing herself. She's the captain. She takes second ball here. Oh, nice setup for Van de Vassa. Wow, what a set. Ozmaic, good take from Rysink and a nice rip from Van de Vassa. Just fires it cross court in the German league. She'll be serving. Good take from Czajic on a running play. Ball's kept up by Netherlands. Can they get a swing on it? A tip from Van de Vassa picked up by Jegdic. Here's Czajic off the block and that's going to fall. Serbia prevails 25-23. Such great scramble from both sides. Love that serve from Dombrynk as well. That's her first touch of the ball and she just does so well to make it a challenge. Great read as well. Lovely pickup from Jegdic to make sure that one stays in play. She read that so early and it gave Serbia the chance. I think one of the things the stats are really going to show to us, Kennedy, is that Serbia, not sure, but here we go. Set number two, Serbia in red, Netherlands in white. We're underway and it's an overpass. Oh, what a great pickup from Rysink and Jasper comes out of nowhere to swing at that. Mirkovic sets up. Uzelas, what a pickup from Rysink. Here's Jasper, goes for the tip and she finds the floor. Very smart from Jasper just to take everything off it. Just sail it out the back like that. Such a good point, you know, and maybe if they had those heart monitors on, they could kind of sense adrenaline monitors. Oh, there's another good point for the Netherlands. Their blocking rises to the challenge. Another good block for the Netherlands. Free ball over and Dombrink with the left hand, can't finish. They're going to get another chance. Van Alen sets up Merit Jasper. She doesn't want to swing on it. Here's Zubic and she finds floor. Every time the Netherlands almost won the point. That one from Mirkovic, maybe just a reflex, but it's an excellent reflex that keeps it going. And then lovely from Zubic, past the triple block and into the corner. Van Alen goes to Dombrink and she is shot down by Uzelas. Looks so nice. Looked a little surprised. Well, nobody could get a hold of that one. Dombrink with a ripper. 23-year-old middle blocker Britta Stoet sends it deep. Kochanin, Uzelas. Wow. Almost kept up with the foot. Here's Jasper from the attack line and she finds the corner. I do remember that at one stage. You watch some old YouTube videos, I bet. Uzelas, blocked. Serbia though, comes again. Kochanin, the dig set for Uzelas, through the block. Scores again. 17 serving 21. That's a really good serve. Chaich steps in. Might have been a soft touch on it. And a swing from Stoet on the slide play. Doesn't go. Stoet up. Van Alen. Knolema just gently finds the spot and have a different outcome. Right? A different story. Bajans. Better take from Kochanin. There's the pipe attack from Uzelas. Uzelas and lots and lots. That was zippy. Lovely. Between the blockers. Two for Serbia. They're trying to even it up tonight. Middle attack from Stoet. Nice pick up from Chaich. A nice block from the Dutch front row. And another great swing from Uzelas. Zoran Terzic decides he has to give one last message to Uzelas. Her serve taken by Knolema. The one hand set. Serbia a chance to finish the set. And they do. Uzelas. Here we go. Set number three. Netherlands in white, Serbia in red. Serbia leads the match. Two sets to one. Here they come with Uzelas. What a wicked angle. Or she does it a couple times and misses it. And then starts doubting herself. Here's Van de Vassa. Yes, she's got it. Cross court. Going to get you back in the game in the front row. Azmaich's serve taken well. Van de Vassa. Pop back up. Free ball chance Netherlands. Can they use it? The tip with the left hand by Knolema is going to work. Netherlands the more rested of the two teams in the sense of not having played yesterday. But Serbia is feeling it right now. Knolema up. Van Alen and another huge block from Uzelas. Time not to perfection. I think she committed to this cross pretty hard as well. The 1v1. Yeah, left the whole line. Kordogic sends it deep. Knolema didn't handle it as well as she would have liked. Here comes another running serve from Hannah Kordogic. Better pass. Better set. And Dombrink just barely catches the end line. Wow. Mirkovic big high dig set all the way across. Punched up by Van Alen. Vos sets and Van de Vassa rips it down the line. Netherlands trying to fight through the momentum that has been riding with Serbia the entire match really. Vos goes with a tip picked up by Uzelas. Here's the back row attack from Cahic and she can't be stopped on that play. Cahic all with big points this match and they're just a team inspired. Vos Cahic up from rising Jasper Cahic and through the block. She's serving now for the match and she's got an ace to finish it off. What an incredible game for team Serbia.