与此同时，苏联队虽然小组预赛中以17比19落后于日本，输了关键的第五局，但在半场赛中他们击败了当时的世界头号种子中国队，让世人为之一惊。

• Meanwhile the USSR,which had lost 17-19 in the fifth to Japan in pool play,went on to leave the world aghast by blanking then top world power china in the semifinal.