Beşiktaş Women’s Volleyball Team hosted Vakıfbank Güneş Sigorta in a season opener at BJK Akatlar Cola Turka Arena and despite taking the first two sets for a 2-0 early lead could not prevent going down 3-2 to its visitors.

Off to a great start, the Black and Whites quickly jumped out to an early lead behind superb blocking and powerful spikes as they held an 8-4 lead at the first technical timeout and a 16-11 edge at the second.  Although the consecutive kills by Yeliz and Bouagaa made the things difficult for the visitors, Vakıfbank Güneş Sigorta managed to battle back to within one down the stretch. But Yagmur wrapped up the opening set 25-23 with a fierce spike and gave Beşiktaş a 1-0 lead in the match.  
After exchanging points for a short time, our Black and Whites looked much superior in the second set. They improved their blocking while Yağmur’s kills in the corners helped them take an 8-4 lead at the first technical timeout.   But Vakıbank Bank slowed Beşiktaş’s offense down with triple-blocks and put together a run of their own with 5 consecutive points to pull ahead 9-8. Despite a series of simple errors, Black and Whites rode Yağmur’s scoring and held a slim 16-15 advantage at the second technical timeout. During the remainder of the set, Beşiktaş made use of an excellent blocking from Roll and Arzu while Yagmur and Bouagaa continued to hit point-ending spikes to take the set 25-23 and make it 2-0 for the home team.  
Visiting Vakıfbank Güneş Sigorta made its presence felt in the third set and went into the technical timeouts leading 8-4 and 16-9. When they reached 20 points, our team finally woke up and crawled to within 4 but could not close the gap. The visitors won the set 25-18 and brought the score to 2-1.
Vakıfbank managed to carry its momentum into the fourth set and were up 8-4 and 16-8 at the technical timeouts. The solid blocking put up by the visiting side prevented Black and Whites to get close as they pulled way from their hosts to finish the set 25- 10 and even the match at 2-2.
After dropping the first two sets, the Capital City representatives who forced a deciding set on a strong come back had full command of the tie- break and managed to outscore Beşiktaş 15-8 for a hard fought 3-2 victory.