Head-to-Head
• 2014 world champions USA face 2014 WGP bronze medal winners Russia for the 23rd time in the WGP.
• Russia have won 12 of their previous 22 WGP matches, losing 10. Both teams won and lost one last season, both by a 3-1 score.
• USA defeated Russia twice at the 2014 World Championship, both by a 3-1 score.
• Russia have won 146 WGP matches in total, two more than USA.
Russia
• Russia had won three WGP matches in a row before losing to China last week.
• They have won eight of their last 11 matches in the WGP.
• Nataliya Goncharova has scored 52 points for Russia, including 26 against China (3-1 defeat).
• Kseniia Ilchenko is Russia's next most prolific scorer on 27 total points this year.
United States
• USA can win six matches in a row in the WGP for the first time since six in the preliminary rounds in 2013.
• They have won the opening set in their last six matches and went on to win their last five matches.
• Karsta Lowe is their top scorer on 34 points, with 30 of them coming from spikes.
• Nicole Fawcett has registered six blocks and 25 spikes.