Maribor looking for sixth win in a row

There are three games of the 10th round scheduled this week in Women's MEL. Runner-up Nova branik Maribor (SLO) wants to in it's sixth game in row to stay close to the top.

Maribor has won five consecutive games. On Saturday they now want to clinch the sixth against eighth placed ZU Zilina. Maribor hasn't lost a single set in it's last two hiome games.

Can Ljubljana stop losing-streak?
Vital Ljubljana (SLO), who is at the bottom of the table, finally wants to stop it's losing streak at ZU Zilina (SVK) on Saturday. The winless Slovenians suffered a close 2:3-loss at home in the first round meeting of the two times. They now look to reverse the luck when playing in Zilina.

Klagenfurt hosts Doprastav
ATSC Sparkasse klagenfurt (AUT) has high hopes after surprisingly clinching the next round of the Challenge Cup on Tuesday. On Saturday they host VK Doprastav Bratislava from Slavakia. The Austrians have also won their last two home games. Doprastav is on the back of their heels in the Challenge Cup after losing the first game by 3:0 to Tent Obrenovac from Serbia. They cannot afford to lose another set in the second game Wednesday night.

MEL, Upcoming games, 10th round:
Saturday:
17:00 ZU ZILINA (SVK) - Vital LJUBLJANA (SLO) Hotel Borik {ZILINA}
18:00 Nova KBM Branik MARIBOR (SLO) - Calcit KAMNIK (SLO) Športna dvorana Ljudski vrt - Lukna {MARIBOR}
18:30 ATSC Sparkasse KLAGENFURT (AUT) - VK Doprastav BRATISLAVA (SVK) BG Lerchenfeldstraße {KLAGENFURT}

Standings:
1 ZOK RIJEKA KVIG (CRO) 9 9 0 27 1 700 463 18
2 Nova KBM Branik MARIBOR (SLO) 8 7 1 23 5 672 529 15
3 ZOK SPLIT 1700 (CRO) 9 6 3 19 10 634 605 15
4 VK Slavia UK BRATISLAVA (SVK) 10 5 5 16 19 769 743 15
5 VK Doprastav BRATISLAVA (SVK) 9 5 4 19 15 731 731 14
6 SG SVS Post (AUT) 8 5 3 15 13 584 587 13
7 ATSC Sparkasse KLAGENFURT (AUT) 10 3 7 14 22 776 829 13
8 ZU ZILINA (SVK) 10 2 8 9 27 718 839 12
9 Calcit KAMNIK (SLO) 8 3 5 12 18 647 667 11
10 Vital LJUBLJANA (SLO) 9 0 9 3 27 487 725 9 - ANS/RED/MEVZA