The Chinese women's volleyball team that has entered the new Olympic cycle has not yet been formed and ushered in a good start. At the draw ceremony of the 2022 World Championships held in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Chinese women's volleyball team drew the upper draw. The World Championships is the first international competition of the Chinese women's volleyball team under the new Olympic cycle, and the first competition ushered in a good omen, indicating that Cai Bin had the conditions to copy the miracle of Lang Ping.
The 24 teams drawn from all over the world were divided into four groups A, B, C and D, and the Chinese women's volleyball team was divided into group D, and the overall grouping was as follows:
Group A: Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Cameroon, Kenya
Group B: Poland, Turkey, Dominica, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Croatia
Group C: United States, Serbia, Germany, Bulgaria, Canada, Kazakhstan
Group D: Brazil, China, Japan, Colombia, Argentina, Czech Republic
The opponent of the Chinese women's volleyball team is only Brazil, which is a strong team, and the other opponents are weaker, which is almost no threat to the Chinese women's volleyball team, and it will not affect the Chinese women's volleyball team to enter the next round. Coincidentally, not only is the group opponent favorable to the Chinese women's volleyball team, but also the format regulations are also very favorable to the Chinese women's volleyball team. The World Championships stipulate that the top four of each group advance to the next round, then the top four of Group A and the top four of Group D form Group E, the top four of Group B and the top four of Group C form Group F, and then the top four of Group E and Group F become the top eight of the World Championships and enter the knockout rounds.
Obviously, in the two groups, the main opponents encountered by the Chinese women's volleyball team are the teams they have not lost in recent years, whether it is Italy, Brazil or the Netherlands women's volleyball team, they are all defeated by the Chinese women's volleyball team. The Chinese women's volleyball team has defeated Brazil in the 2019 World Cup and the 2021 World League, and defeated the Netherlands at the same time; the advantage over the Italian women's volleyball team and the Chinese women's volleyball team is even greater, defeating Italy three times in the 2019 World League and the 2021 World League, and defeating Italy once at the Tokyo Olympic Games, maintaining the feat of four consecutive kills. That is to say, the Chinese women's volleyball team has a great chance to enter the quarterfinals of the World Championships with a good ranking. Undoubtedly, the Chinese women's volleyball team did draw a lottery.
After serving as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Cai Bin expressed his hope to achieve good results at the World Championships. Now that the draw is equal to making the opening for the World Championships, the quarterfinals are basically locked, and then it depends on how far Cai Bin can go. At the 2014 World Championships, Lang Ping, who had not been in office for a long time, generally used new talents, and the Chinese women's volleyball team, which experienced the failure of the London Olympic Games, worked hard to become stronger, and miraculously achieved a good result of runner-up. This time Cai Bin took office, the Chinese women's volleyball team that experienced the failure of the Tokyo Olympic Games should be ready to go, under similar conditions, the time to test Cai Bin has arrived.
In recent years, the Chinese women's volleyball team has been running at its peak, although the Tokyo Olympics failed, but the basic team of the Chinese women's volleyball team is still there, compared with Lang Ping taking over the trough period of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Cai Bin is much luckier. Although Zhu Ting cannot participate in the World Championships, Zhang Changning may return, Li Yingying is still there, Yuan Xinyue and Gong Xiangyu are still there, and the spirit of the Chinese women's volleyball team is still there, so Cai Bin has the conditions to copy Lang Ping's miracle, or further is unknown.