ISTANBUL (A.A) - Dusan Ivkovic, coach of the Serbian basketballteam, said Saturday that he was happy to defeat Croatia in the 1/8 finals toclaim the quarter finalist title in a game in Istanbul in the 2010 WorldBasketball Championship, which saw a narrow 73-72 for the Serbians."It was very hard to keep up a good game against such a wonderful team. Itis a huge thing for us to claim such a victory with such a young squad,"Ivkovictold reporters after the game."This should not be what we got after all the hard work. We have startedvery well but failed to keep it up,"Croatia's coach Josip Vrankovic said.(İMB-AY)