On January 4, 2022, Beijing time, the first leg of the 2021-2022 Chinese Women's Volleyball Super League Finals officially kicked off. Tianjin women's volleyball team against Jiangsu women's volleyball team, the finals adopt a three-game two-win system, after 3 rounds of competition, Tianjin women's volleyball team 3-0 (25-11, 25-20, 25-17) swept the Jiangsu women's volleyball team, won the first round of victory.
In this game, the starting team sent by the Tianjin team was the main attack Li Yingying and Liu Yanhan, the secondary attack Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan, the receiver Vargas, the second pass Yao Di and the free man Meng Zixuan. The Jiangsu team was joined by the main attack Wu Han and Wu Mengjie, the secondary attacks Yang Jia and Wan Ziyue, the receiving Gong Xiangyu, the second pass Diao Linyu and the free man Ni Feifan.
At the beginning of the game, Tianjin started well and took a 4-1 lead. Yuan Xinyue served straight, Li Yingying counter-attacked the hit, Tianjin pulled the score to 10-5, Jiangsu team fell behind 7-16 in the middle of the game. As the game progressed, the Jiangsu team, which was 9-18 behind, was replaced by the main attack Zhou Pageong and Tang Xin, who were still sad about Li Yingying's serve wheel, Yuan Xinyue quick-ball to win the set point, Liu Yanhan attacked to lock the victory, and Tianjin team took the next city 25-11.
In the second set, Tianjin team took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the opening continued to lead continuously. In the middle of the innings, Li Yingying made a mistake in slaming the ball, and Jiangsu team chased the score to 11-12. Wu Han attacked out of bounds, Vargas jumped straight, Yuan Xinyue blocked Gong Xiangyu's breakthrough, and Tianjin scored three consecutive points to pull the score to 15-11. Liu Yanhan and Wang Yuanyuan grabbed the counterattack in succession, and Tianjin led 20-13. At the end of the game, Yuan Xinyue quickly attacked the attacker out of bounds, and the Tianjin team went to the next city at 25-20.
Tianjin led 2-0. The third set continued, and Jiangsu used Zhou Pageong and Wu Han to partner to attack. After 5 draws, Yuan Xinyue quickly attacked zhong, Wang Yuanyuan competed for points, and Tianjin team took the lead 7-5. Jiangsu clenched through the two wings of the 3 side attacks, and after the two teams held each other to 14 draws, Liu Yanhan hit the two strong attacks, Zhou Pageong attacked out of bounds, and the Tianjin team surpassed 17-14. Subsequently, Jiangsu team lost five consecutive points to fall behind 15-22. Li Yingying attacked to win the match point, Yang Jia fast ball out of bounds to send points, Tianjin team won 25-17 again. In the end, Tianjin swept the opponent 3-0 to win the first game, just one step away from defending the title.
In this game, Tianjin 4 people scored in double figures, and deputy attacker Yuan Xinyue scored 15 dunks and 13 of 13, 1 shot and 3 blocks, and won 17 points to win the scoring king. Vargas was blocked with 1 of 22 dunks, 2 of 20, 1 error, 4 shots and 1 block, and scored 15 points. Li Yingying made 1 mistake in 21 deductions and 9 shots, 1 shot and 2 blocks, a total of 12 points. Liu Yanhan scored 10 points out of 19 deductions, and Jiangsu's main attacker Wu Han scored the highest 10 points on his side.
In addition, in the second game of today's 3rd and 4th place finals, the Shanghai women's volleyball team defeated Liaoning Huajun 3-0 and won the bronze medal with a total score of 2-0 in the three best-of-two competitions, with three sets of 25-20, 25-17 and 25-14. Shanghai's main attack Jin Softjing won the 20 points to win the scoring championship of the game, and Liaoning's main attacker Shi Bingtong scored the highest 17 points.