Bari, Italy, September 17, 2018 – Australia are seeking for their second triumph in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship to match their record in 2014, when they claimed two victories.
Head-to-Head
• Australia and Tunisia have twice before met at the World Championship. Both encounters came at the 1982 edition, when Tunisia won 3-0 in the second group stage and 3-1 in the final for 21st place.
• The other two meetings meetings between these teams at world level major competitions came at the World Cup and were both won by Australia: 3-1 in 2007 and 3-0 in 2015.
• World level major competitions are: World Championships, Olympic Games, World Cup, World League, Grand Champions Cup and the Nations League.
Australia
• Australia have won just one of their last eight World Championship matches, a 3-1 win over Cameroon last Friday.
• That win against Cameroon was their fifth victory in their World Championship history (31 defeats). Only in 2014 (2) Australia managed to claim multiple victories at a single World Championship, against Cameroon and Venezuela.
• Max Staples scored 12 points in Australia's 3-1 defeat against Serbia on Sunday, at least two more than any other teammate.
Tunisia
• Tunisia lost their three matches at the 2018 World Championship, in straight sets against Cameroon and Russia and in four against Serbia.
• Tunisia have now lost each of their last 11 World Championship matches, since a 3-2 win against Puerto Rico in 2006.
• Only once Tunisia lost more successive World Championship matches: 19 defeats from 1974 to 1982.
• Ali Bongui was the overall top scorer in the match against Serbia with 27 points. Hamza Nagga (34 total points) is Tunisia's current top scorer at the 2018 World Championship.