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Undefeated USA play Tunisia in Osaka

 

Head-to-head
·    United States have won all five previous World Cup meetings with Tunisia (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007).
·    These nations last met in an international competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, when United States beat Tunisia in straight sets.
·    Tunisia's sole victory over Unites States in all major competitions came in their first ever meeting. Tunisia won 3-1 at the 1970 World Championship.

United States
·    United States are still unbeaten in this World Cup. Yesterday, against Iran they dropped one set for only the second time this tournament.
·    United States is one win shy of equalling their team record eight consecutive wins in the World Cup. They set this record in 1977-1985.
·    The 1985 edition was USA's only entire unbeaten World Cup year.

Tunisia
·    Tunisia and Egypt are the only teams without a win in the 2015 World Cup.
·    Tunisia have not won any set in the last three World Cup matches. They last suffered five consecutive straight-sets defeats in 1999-2003.
·    Hichem Kaabi was their top scorer in the match against Italy. He scored 17 points, one more than Italy's top scorer Ivan Zaytsev. Kaabi scored 16 points from 32 spike attempts.
·    Tunisia have won five competitive matches in 2015. They last won more matches in 2003: six.

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