"It was the last match we played here. We had a nice start, so we wished a good end. However, the team members of New Zealand have played quite good, their hits are high-level. On the other hand, our players had many errors on defending, so finally we lost this game."

 

"We wish to have a success, although this is the first time that we compete in the World Championship. We also had known there would be top-class teams from all over the world and the matches would be quite difficult. Anyhow, this is a wonderful chance for us to improve ourselves and accumulate experiences from each match."

 

"We've learnt a lot during the whole World Championship. And we are confident in next year's Olympics qualifying games. We do will come to Beijing again to compete in the Olympic Games here."

 

"Obviously We're very happy to get another win. Korea just had a big lost to the USA, so in latter games they have been very strong defensively. We were also unlucky in some games but today we started to hit the ball, much better than we have all week. We were determined to finish with a win as this is our last game. We want to finish strong for ourselves and also for our supporters and people back home. ¡±"

 

"Yes, there's always lots of room for improvement. Hopefully it will happen in New Zealand when we back home and start training again."

 

 

 

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"It may be the game playing with USA. It's a difficult one, cause they're too strong, and also China and Canada. But I guess for us the most difficult game and probably the most important is the game for trying to be qualified for the playoff. It is the game yesterday against Great Britain. "

 

 

 

Issued by: News Service, Organizing committee