On April 7, 2024, Beijing time, the first leg of the semifinals of the Serie A Women's Volleyball League began, and Zhu Ting's Scandic defeated her rival Milan in three straight games at home, taking the lead in the best-of-three series. In this game, Zhu Ting, who started the game, won the second highest score of 13 points in the team, and played well at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.
Before the first leg of the Serie A semi-finals against Milan, Scandic played Milan three times this season, all of which ended in defeat, and it can be said that Milan is Scandicci's bitter master. However, in the first leg of the semi-finals, Scandic who played at home showed a better form, especially the performance of several core players was better than the opponent's core players.
In this game, Scandicci's starting lineup is the main attack Zhu Ting, Herbots, the secondary attack Carroll, L-Nwakallo, the receiver Antropova, the second setter Ognienovic and the libero Parocchial. Milan's starting line-up is Sheila, Caschott, Frij, Heilmann, Egnu, Oro and Castillo, the libero. Both sides sent their strongest lineups to stage a strong dialogue.
The game wasn't as intense as it could have been, and even a bit tedious at some moments, with Scandic playing better at home and better at controlling his own mistakes. In the end, Scandic won three games in a row 25-23, 25-22 and 25-22 to get off to a flying start in the semi-finals and finally claim a victory after three straight defeats. Zhu Ting was blocked only 1 time in 21 deductions and 10 zero errors, with a success rate of 48%, plus 2 blocks and 1 shot, she scored a total of 13 points, and she was still the team's second scorer.
On top of that, she missed a team-high 21 first-pass passes twice, with a first-pass completion rate of 43% and a perfect completion rate of 29%. It should be said that Zhu Ting is still an excellent performance of attacking and defending, at the end of the season, Scandicci's cooperation is becoming more and more tacit, Zhu Ting's state is getting better and better, and she has gotten rid of injuries. If this form can be continued, Zhu Ting's first Serie A title for Scandic is really close at hand.
Such an excellent Zhu Ting is certainly worthy of returning to the national team, I don't know if Cai Bin has paid attention to Zhu Ting's performance? Many fans are looking forward to Zhu Ting's return to the Chinese women's volleyball team after the season, but Zhu Ting has not entered the national team's training squad, and it is still unknown whether it is a special event. The past three years have not been easy for Zhu Ting, and I hope she can stay healthy and then return to the national team and compete in the Paris Olympics with her teammates!