On May 17, Beijing time, the Turkish station of the World Women's Volleyball League ushered in a key matchup, with the Japanese women's volleyball team playing against the German women's volleyball team. The 2024 World Women's Volleyball League Brazil and Turkey will start at the same time, and the Brazilian teams include the Chinese women's volleyball team, the South Korean women's volleyball team, the United States women's volleyball team, the Canadian women's volleyball team and the Serbian women's volleyball team. Turkey has Japan, Gallia, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Germany.
The Chinese women's volleyball team performed poorly in last year's Olympic qualifying tournament, only achieving 4 wins and 3 losses and missing the Paris Olympics, and the final ranking of the World Women's Volleyball League will determine the last four places to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Eight teams have already qualified for the Paris Olympics: hosts France and Turkey, the United States, Brazil, Serbia, Poland and Dominica. Because there are no teams in Asia and Africa that qualify directly for the Paris Olympics, the first place in Asia and Africa can enter the Olympics, and Kenya, the first place in Africa, has also locked a ticket to the Paris Olympics. Whether the Chinese women's volleyball team can qualify for the Paris Olympics will play a decisive role in the results of the sub-station competition. The Chinese women's volleyball team needs to compete with teams such as Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Canada for the remaining four tickets.
The Chinese women's volleyball team is competing with Japan for the first place in Asia, as the biggest opponent of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Asia, the Japanese women's volleyball team sent the strongest team to play in the World Women's Volleyball League, aiming to enter the Olympic Games again, and they have won two consecutive victories in the World Women's Volleyball League Turkey. In the first game, they defeated the world's No. 1 Turkish women's volleyball team 3-2, and in the second game, they swept the Bulgarian women's volleyball team 3-0. The Japanese women's volleyball team has risen to 8th in the world ranking, closely catching up with the Chinese women's volleyball team. The German women's volleyball team swept the French women's volleyball team 3-0 in the first game, and lost to the Italian women's volleyball team 1-3 in the second game, the German women's volleyball team is temporarily ranked 12th in the world, and they are also trying to fight for a ticket to the Paris Olympics. The World Women's Volleyball League will increase fewer points if it beats a weak team, on the contrary, if it is upset by a weak team, it will reduce a lot of points, that is, winning a strong team will increase a lot of points.
In the first game, the two sides played back and forth at the beginning, but the Japanese women's volleyball team played more stable at the critical moment, and they won the first game 25-21. In the second game, the Japanese women's volleyball team comprehensively suppressed the German women's volleyball team, the German women's volleyball team could not keep up with the rhythm of the Japanese women's volleyball team at all, the Japanese women's volleyball team firmly grasped the initiative on the court, and the Japanese women's volleyball team won another game 25-15. In the third game, the German women's volleyball team began to fight back, but the Japanese women's volleyball team withstood the pressure, and they won 25-22 again, with a total score of 3-0 to complete the sweep of the German women's volleyball team.
After this battle, the Japanese women's volleyball team won three consecutive victories, and they temporarily surpassed the Chinese women's volleyball team to rise to the first place in one more round.