The Dresden SC volleyball team started the play-off semi-finals with a defeat. Coach Alexander Waibl's shorthanded team lost the first game of the best-of-three series at defending champions Allianz MTV Stuttgart by a clear 0:3 (21:25, 19:25, 19:25). As a result, the team from the city on the Elbe now have their backs to the wall in their own arena next Saturday and absolutely need a win to keep their hopes of reaching the final alive.
The German cup winners had to do without captain and key player Sarah Straube at the start of the semi-final series after she picked up an injury in training. As a result, the third-placed team in the preliminary round only had one player available in the important control position: Larissa Winter.
