Pre-favourites of Pool D Fenerbahçe Opet ISTANBUL and Dinamo-Ak Bars KAZAN delivered a high-class Volleyball battle at Burhan Felek Voleybol Salonu ISTANBUL. The guests opened the match fully focused starting it with incredible streak with Irina Koroleva on serve, building significant advantage from 4-2 to 13-2. Kazan dominated in all components, perfectly reading the game of their opponent and with unstoppable Samanta Fabris (8 points in the first set) they won the opening part easily. The rising star of Fenerbahce and former player of Kazan - Arina Fedorovtseva struggled in reception and couldn't find her rhythm in attack, but it was slowly changing in the second part. Even if the hosts managed to save five set balls, it was not enough to prevent Kazan from leading 2-0. The crowd at the venue in Istanbul sparked their favourites back to life when they were 2-8 down in the third set, powered by the Russian duo in Fenerbahce's jersey - Arina Fedorovtseva (6 points) and Anna Lazareva (4), the hosts won the set and kept their chances for the opening win alive. Dinamo managed to quickly ran with the score to 8-3, but then Fedorovtseva started her show, scoring impressive 11 points! Tie-break was totally dominated by the hosts, who took 7-1 lead and improve it further to 12-3. Dinamo couldn't find an answer to perfect plays of Lazareva, who scored, not less spectacular, 10 points in the fifth set! Eventually, it was Fedorovtseva to be awarded with MVP title after scoring 27 points, Lazareva tallied 22, once the top scorer of Dinamo - Samantha Fabris contributed with 20.