Head-to-Head• Cuba won their only previous World Championship meeting with Canada 3-1 (1998).
• Canada won their most recent meeting at a major tournament. In the semifinal of the 2013 NORCECA Championship Canada beat Cuba in straight sets.
• Both teams have won their last World Championship meeting with a fellow NORCECA side. In both cases, the opponents were Mexico.
Cuba
• With their 3-1 loss against Brazil in the last match of the first round, Cuba recorded their 200th set loss at the World Championship.
• Cuba have won 18 of their last 19 World Championship matches that went into a fifth set decider.
• Javier Ernesto Jimenez Scull scored a total of 85 points in the first round matches.
Canada• Canada won their last four World Championship matches and can win five in a row for the first time in team history.
• They won their last three matches in straight sets which was the first time for Canada in World Championship history.
• Canada have the best two spikers in the competition after the first round matches. Nicholas Hoag has a success rate of 59.32% and Gavin Schmitt a success rate of 56.94%.