Zhu Ting, the captain of the Chinese women's volleyball team, is currently in a state of recuperation due to her wrist surgery, so she did not participate in the first national team training after Cai Bin's guidance, and it is a foregone conclusion to miss the World Women's Volleyball League that will start next month. However, on May 4, Beijing time, according to Italian media reports, the Scandic team of the Italian women's volleyball league recently threw an olive branch to Zhu Ting and provided an offer. Next season's Serie A women's volleyball team starts in October, and if Zhu Ting chooses to join Scandic, she has plenty of time to recover.
Last season's Serie A women's volleyball league, Scandic lost to Conegliano in the semi-finals, and finally ranked fourth, failed to qualify for next season's Champions League, and will participate in the Europa League, which means that if Zhu Ting joins this team, she will not be able to show herself in the top competition of the Champions League. Scandic is not the traditional giants of the Serie A women's volleyball team, and most of the international players of the Italian national team play for Conegliano and Novara. It is worth mentioning that The German number one star Lippmann, who once played for the Shanghai women's volleyball team, joined Scandic last season, but Lipman served as a substitute in this team.
Zhu Ting once had a very successful experience of staying in the West, after the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship in Rio in 2016, Zhu Ting joined the local super giant Wakif Bank team. Zhu Ting, who played for this team for three seasons, led the team to win eight championship trophies including the Champions League, Club World Cup, Turkish Super League, Turkish Cup and Super Cup, and she was personally awarded MVP six times, achieving Grand Slams at the club level. However, due to the preparation for the Tokyo Olympic Games, after the end of the 2018-19 season, Zhu Ting returned to the volleyball super, joined the Tianjin women's volleyball team, and helped the team win the league championship for two consecutive years. Last season, due to an injury, Zhu Ting did not participate.
Goodtti, the head coach of Wakif Bank, is very appreciative of Zhu Ting, and after Zhu Ting left the team, Goodtti has said more than once that Wakif Bank welcomes Zhu Ting's return at any time. However, now Scandic took the lead in making an offer to Zhu Ting, which had the intention of snatching people from Wakif Bank. At present, Scandic's squad configuration and overall strength cannot be compared with the two giants of Conegliano and Norava, so Scandic hopes to improve the team's competitiveness in the league by introducing world top stars such as Zhu Ting.
Last month, Zhu Ting posted a photo of herself after the successful operation on the social platform, and from the state point of view, the smiling Zhu Ting recovered well, and the wrist had been replaced by a small protective gear from a plasterboard for protection. A few days later, Zhu Ting participated in the 10 km event of the Barcelona Marathon and finished the race in 1 hour and 3 minutes. Since the ATP Tour was held in Barcelona, Zhu Ting, who loves tennis, not only went to the scene to watch the game, but also interacted with the second seed Rudder. Although she did not have the opportunity to meet her idol Nadal, Zhu Ting still felt the charm of the sport and said that she was really happy as a fan.
This year, the Chinese women's volleyball team has a number of international competition tasks, Is in a state of recuperation, Zhu Ting, absent from the World League in early June, there is no suspense, however, because there are more than 4 months before the Asian Games and the World Championships, Zhu Ting if the recovery is smooth, there is a full opportunity to catch up before these two events. Although the performance in the Tokyo Olympic Games is not good, but the objective reason is that it is injured, at this stage, Zhu Ting's role in both ends of the attack and defense, the national team still has no one to replace, if Zhu Ting can come back before September, it will help the Chinese women's volleyball team to complete the set goal of "winning the Asian Games and striving for a good position in the World Championships".