Head-to-head• This will be the second World Championship meeting between both sides. In 1998 Serbia (then Yugoslavia) beat Australia in straight sets.
• Australia have won only one of their 13 meetings with European sides at the World Championships. In 1998 they beat Turkey in five sets.
• Paul Carroll (Australia) and Srecko Lisinac (Serbia) both play in Germany for SCC Berlin.
Serbia• Serbia's 3-1 win ended a streak of three consecutive losses in first round matches at the World Championships. They had lost against Canada, Poland (2010) and again Poland (2014) prior to their win.
• Serbia's last four results at the World Championships have alternated: loss-win-loss-win.
• Aleksandar Atanasijevic celebrates his 23rd birthday on the day of the match.
Australia• Australia's 25 World Championship matches so far have given them a record of three wins and 22 losses.
• Of all teams that have won at least one match at the World Championships, only Guinea (one win in 11 matches, 9%) have a worse winning record than Australia's 12%.
• They won their 2014 World Championship opener against Cameroon (3-0) before losing to Poland (3-0). Australia are yet to win multiple matches at a single edition of the World Championship.