Talita and Larissa will be seeking their seventh-straight win over the Canadians with three of the wins being posted at 2016 SWATCH Major Series stops in Hamburg, Porec and Gstaad.
Match PreviewMATCH NOTES
• BRA has a 6-0 lead in the series, and all six matches have been sweeps
• CAN scored at least 19 points in three of the first four sets played between the teams, but hasn’t in the last eight sets
• In April 2015, Broder / Valjas won the gold medal in Fuzhou, China, becoming the first ever team from Canada to win any medal on the FIVB Tour
• Valjas, who is from Toronto, is competing in an FIVB event in Canada for the first time
• BRA has a 50-9 match record this year, including a perfect 30-0 mark in pool play and 6-6 in three-set matches
• BRA enters the World Tour Finals having won its last 58 pool play matches (last loss was in May 2015 in Moscow, losing to Canada’s Bansley / Pavan)
• This season CAN has a 14-27 match record, including 11-19 in pool play and 10-11 in three-set matches