Tran Thi Thanh Thuy created an earthquake before the opening day of the Turkish National Championship, ranking above the number 1 striker.
Only 10 days left until Thanh Thuy and her teammates at Kuzeyboru Club will play their first match in the Turkish National Championship 2024-2025 season. The Vietnamese women's volleyball star unexpectedly made a special achievement before the G hour.
According to the latest updated rankings of the famous volleyball statistics site Volleybox, Thanh Thuy continues to maintain her 369th position in the world.
Volleybox is a website that compiles and ranks famous volleyball players and teams in the world. The ranking position is based on the accumulated points of players and teams through tournaments. These accumulated points are based on the titles and awards of both collective and individual.
With a long career up to this point, Thanh Thuy has participated in many tournaments, won many awards and titles both individually and collectively, so she has a cumulative score of 1701.70 points. With this score, the top hitter of Vietnamese women's volleyball is ranked 369th among the best women's volleyball players in the world in history.
With her current position, Thanh Thuy is far ahead of the main striker Ana Cristina Souza of the Turkish championship club Fenerbahce, who is ranked 764th among the best female volleyball players in the world in history.
Ana Cristina Souza is only 20 years old so she has not participated in many tournaments, has not won many individual or collective titles so her accumulated points are still very low and therefore, she has not achieved a high position on the Volleybox rankings.
However, it should be emphasized that this is an exceptionally talented and "famous" volleyball player despite being very young. Ana Cristina Souza was voted "best striker" in the Turkish National Championship last season when she and Fenerbahce won the championship.
She is also the main striker of the Brazilian women's volleyball team, currently ranked 2nd in the world. Ana Cristina Souza recently won a bronze medal with the Brazilian team in women's volleyball at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Ranking above such a big star by nearly 400 places on the Volleybox rankings is a proud achievement for Thanh Thuy. The rankings of players will certainly change in the future, but right now the Vietnamese player is in a truly proud position.
Thanh Thuy is also the second best female volleyball player in Vietnamese history, just behind middle blocker Ngoc Hoa, who is ranked 331st in the world according to Volleybox statistics.
