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Opening Day 3 in pool A, saw the national team of Greece face the team of Belgium. Until now neither team had won a match after Greece were defeated by Ukraine and Belgium by Portugal and Serbia. They were even equal on ranking points as they had both achieved a single point after taking one match to a tie-break. In this game however they were not quite equal, as Belgium put together a game that proved to be too much for the Greek side in most departments of the game.

The first set of the match was completely dominated by the side in red, push on by their coach Fernando Benitez Munoz. They secured a small advantage quite early (6-3) and throughout the set just built up a more significant lead (15-6). The coach of Greece tried a number of substitutions, but the Belgians seemed to be just unstoppable and easily ended the opening part 25-16.

The second part was completely different from the first one. The score was tied through the early phases (7-7), and this did not change until the twenties (19-19). This was partly due to a good performance from the Greek middle blocker Theodoros Voulkidis, who contributed with an ace and multiple effective attacks. In the end it turned out not to be enough to defeat the players of Belgium, who won also the second set to 22 points.

The Belgians were heavily motivated to finish the match in three sets, which led to immediate securing of a tactical few-points advantage (15-10). The Greeks tried to bring the game back level, especially their best scorer Nikos Zoupani, who contributed with as many as 19 points, but the team of Belgium were fully concentrated on winning its first match of the tournament and finally triumphed in the third 25-22.