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Lausanne, Switzerland, August 11, 2019 - Italy wrapped up a thrilling day of Olympic qualifiers across the world, crushing Serbia on Sunday night in Bari 3-0 (25-16, 25-19, 25-19) in just an hour and a half to secure the weekend's last available ticket for the men's volleyball tournament of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.


Italy join Brazil, Russia, USA, Poland and Argentina, who had qualified earlier on Sunday, plus Japan who had a spot by default as hosts in the 12-team lineup of Tokyo 2020. The remaining five Olympic berths will be decided at continental level in January.

Led by Ivan Zaytsev's scoring (13 points including all three of his team's aces), Italy totally outblocked the Serbia side 6 to 1, as the Balkan side conceded as many as 18 unforced errors in the three sets.

At no moment in the game were the 'Azzurri' threatened by Serbia, who failed to reach into the 20s in any of the three sets.

Tokyo 2020 will mark Italy's 12th appearance at the Games - still aiming for that all-elusive gold medal after three silver and three bronze.

Brazil survive cosmic scare
Just minutes earlier in Varna, Brazil had survived one Bulgarian match point and pulled off an incredible comeback from two sets down to beat the home side 3-2 (23-25, 19-25, 32-30, 25-16, 15-11) and make Tokyo 2020, where they can now defend their title from Rio 2016.

After Bulgaria stormed to a two-set lead, Brazil warded off one match point of Bulgaria that would have seen the Balkan side through to Tokyo after just three sets, but only managed to extend the game on their seventh attempt, Mauricio Souza attacking for the sideout and Rozalin Penchev then hitting long.

The South Americans cruised in the fourth, gaining an early lead and expanding on that as the set wore on.

But Bulgaria never came back into the game. A brief 2-4 lead by the Balkan side was quickly overriden by a 5-1 Brazil run to make it 7-5 and ensure the South Americans a two-point advantage as the teams switched sides. The three-time Olympic champions reached match point with three to spare, taking the match rather unglamourously when Martin Atanasov hit the last ball long.

It was exactly these errors that cost Bulgaria the match, as they gave away a whopping 36 points to Brazil.

Yoandy Leal with 22 points and Wallace De Souza with 20 (including four aces) brought the points in for Brazil, as they managed to find their way past the menacing Bulgarian block.

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