The 2023-2024 Women's Volleyball Super League has entered the final stage, and after the league ends, the players will enter the national team training camp after a short break during the Spring Festival holiday. There are also five major suspense to be revealed for this year's training camp, and the following will be sorted out for you:
First, can Zhu Ting return to the squad and wear the national team jersey again?
Since Cai Bin took over the Chinese women's volleyball team, the most surprising thing for fans is that as the world's No. 1 main attacker and the core of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Zhu Ting has failed to appear in the national team's training list for 2 consecutive years. According to the previous practice, even if you do not participate in the training camp, your name will be written into the training list, and it will be noted that you will not participate in the training camp for the time being due to injuries and other reasons. However, in the past two years, we have not seen Zhu Ting's name in the Chinese women's volleyball team. At present, Zhu Ting has reached the age of 29, and her offensive ability has declined significantly compared with her peak. If Zhu Ting is on the training list of the Chinese women's volleyball team after the Spring Festival, then she still has the willingness to fight for the country. On the contrary, it is unlikely that Zhu Ting will represent the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Paris Olympics.
Second, will Wang Yunrui still be able to sit firmly as the main force? Zhang Changning and Wu Mengjie are very likely to ascend to the top positions.
Among the players recruited by Cai Bin for training, Wang Yunrui was the most controversial. The front row offense is seriously stuck, and the back three have almost no offensive ability, only one pass and defense to sit firmly in the starting force. Some fans also put Wang Yunrui and Wang Mengjie together, thinking that the main attacker is the same as the free man, but only plays a tandem role, the difference between the two is that Wang Mengjie did not make offensive mistakes, and Wang Yunrui gave a big score for the Chinese women's volleyball team's mistakes. Will this kind of free man-style main attack still be able to sit firmly in the starting force this year? This is also one of the suspenses to be revealed. Zhang Changning made a comeback in the league and hit 7 deductions and 6 hits, and whether she can have such a performance in international competitions remains to be tested. Wu Mengjie has grown rapidly, but Cai Bin believes too much in the experience of the Mesozoic, and Wu Mengjie may be able to occupy a main offensive substitute spot.
Third, who is the third deputy attacker, Gao Yi and Yang Hanyu? Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan's shortcomings in blocking the net are too obvious.
After the Chinese women's volleyball team retired from Yan Ni and Xu Yunli, the most obvious decline was the strength of the network port. Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan's offense is okay, but their blocking is not even as good as those of Japan and Thailand, who are about 1.70 meters tall. Carol, the deputy attack of the Brazilian women's volleyball team, is only about 1.80 meters tall and is very strong in blocking the net, while Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan, who are more than 1.90 meters tall, can hardly touch the ball in the mobile blocking net in international competitions. is the first game of the semifinals against Shanghai, Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan can't stop Zhong Hui. The Chinese women's volleyball team's secondary offensive position is very much in need of a good player who blocks the net, and who is the third deputy attack of II-VI and Yang Hanyu is also a big suspense.
Fourth, whether Xu Xiaoting can replace Ding Xia as a setter substitute, Cai Bin blindly speeds up and fears swallowing the consequences.
Diao Linyu and Ding Xia have played very average this season, as the main setter of the national team, it is difficult for Diao Linyu to enter the top ten in the league setter data. The evil consequence of blindly speeding up is that the passing is extremely unstable, attacking the ball in place with one board, Diao Linyu is really amazing to pull away at the speed of light, and adjusting the stability and accuracy of the attack and passing is her biggest shortcoming. Ding Xia also failed to make up for this shortcoming in the World League, and Ding Xia was also reduced to a substitute after playing abroad, with limited playing time, mediocre performance, and her ability to move under her feet was far from her peak. If Lang Ping's courage is followed, Xu Xiaoting should be able to occupy the substitute setter position. Cai Bin is conservative in employing people and does not cultivate newcomers, Diao Linyu suddenly dropped the line at the game point and match point, and he can't pass the ball, can Ding Xia, who is injured, put out the fire at the Paris Olympics?
Fifth, who is the 13th person in the Paris Olympics? Can Wu Mengjie be a lucky person?
In order to prevent injuries to players, the Paris Olympics also increased the number of participants for each team to 13. Since there are no particularly good newcomers in the country in the receiving position, the Chinese women's volleyball team should tend to be the main attacker and the free man in the selection of the 13th person. Judging from the fact that Cai Bin has led the team to participate in the World League in the past two years, the biggest gap between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the strong team is the strong offensive ability of the side attacker. In the end, only Li Yingying is left to attack, Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning are all injured, Cai Bin is difficult to give up Wang Yunrui under the premise that Wu Mengjie can become the 13th person in the Olympics?
Some fans also believe that the biggest shortcoming of the Chinese women's volleyball team is the problem of coaching ability. However, there is almost no possibility of changing the coach before the Olympics, and the above five suspenses, what I am most looking forward to is whether Zhu Ting can return, what is everyone's opinion?