October 12 is the 22nd birthday of Yang Hanyu, the current Chinese women's volleyball national player and deputy of the Shandong women's volleyball team. As the youngest member of the national team's vice offensive line, Yang Hanyu became famous very early. With the honor of the best secondary attack and MVP at the World Youth Championships, Yang Hanyu participated in the Tokyo Cycle World Championships and World Cup competitions, but unfortunately failed to be selected for the Tokyo Olympic Games due to the lack of personal technical ability. After veteran Yan Ni gradually withdrew from the national team, Yang Hanyu is expected to become a contender for Yan Ni's successor.
Yang Hanyu, who is 197 years old, is only 22 years old this year, and as another world champion in the Shandong women's volleyball team after Yang Fangxu and Wang Mengjie, Yang Hanyu showed his super strength in the youth group competition. As early as the 2017 Women's Volleyball World Youth Championship, Yang Hanyu, who was only 18 years old, participated as the main force, and in the national youth women's volleyball team with a low average height, Yang Hanyu stood out as the core of the team's championship. After sweeping the Turkish women's volleyball team 3-0 to win the World Youth Championship, Yang Hanyu was selected as the best deputy attacker and MVP of the tournament, which can be described as the most proud player of that World Youth Championship. Along with Yang Hanyu, who was selected for the best team, there are also the active Turkish women's volleyball team deputy attack Güneş and the main attack Tugba, as well as the young main attack of the Jiangsu women's volleyball team Wu Han.
Because of his height and the impact of injuries in the previous two years, Wu Han did not return to the stadium until this year's National Games. As the team's substitute main attacker, Wu Han played a certain strength in the offensive end, but the lack of height may hinder the development of his national team. Yang Hanyu, as a passenger of the national team in the past two years, is more of a substitute for the team. After all, the secondary attack combination of Yan Ni and Yuan Xinyue is currently the strongest combination in China. In the substitute lineup, Wang Yuanyuan, deputy attack of Tianjin women's volleyball team, Gao Yi, deputy attacker of Shanghai women's volleyball team, and Zheng Yixin, deputy attacker of Fujian women's volleyball team, are Yang Hanyu's biggest competitors.
Among them, Zheng Yixin has become a marginal national player of the national team because of the disadvantage of height, and Gao Yi is currently in the Shanghai women's volleyball team, and various technical capabilities need to be further strengthened. Only Yang Hanyu and Wang Yuanyuan became strong contenders for Yan Ni's successor. Unlike Wang Yuanyuan, Yang Hanyu played the most balls in front of him, and also showed strong potential in terms of net height and movement ability. But Yang Hanyu is young in the end, in terms of offensive ability, Yang Hanyu's second position tactical ball needs to be improved, and the strong attack of the third position is easy to make mistakes and be blocked in the case of bad balls. As the most important blocking ability of the secondary attack, Yang Hanyu's mobile netting is the biggest technical deficiency.
With the advantage of 197 height, Yang Hanyu has a high efficiency in scoring the net in the face of the opponent's back row attack and the tactical ball blocking of the third position of the secondary attack in terms of fixed-point blocking technology. For the mobile net of the second and fourth positions, Yang Hanyu's judgment ability and net blocking hand type are slightly insufficient, and many netting mistakes and damages should not be done. Perhaps this is the main reason why Yang Hanyu lost the Olympic roster, at least Yang Hanyu still has a lot to improve.
Yan Ni's retirement makes the Chinese women's volleyball team's secondary offensive line inevitably face the test of the replacement of the old and the new. In addition, whether Yuan Xinyue will continue to represent Tianjin in the new season is still unknown. For Yang Hanyu, after teammate Zhang Qian transferred to the Shenzhen women's volleyball team, the core vice attack of the Shandong women's volleyball team was none other than himself. If Yang Hanyu can strengthen his blocking and offensive strength in the new season of the league, then it is expected to form a new secondary attack tower of the national team with Yuan Xinyue.