At 4:30 on May 15, Beijing time, the Chinese women's volleyball team will usher in the first game of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, against the South Korean women's volleyball team.
In the first week, the Chinese women's volleyball team played against South Korea, the United States, Canada, and Serbia in Rio, Brazil; In the second week, the Chinese women's volleyball team will play against the Netherlands, Japan, Thailand, and Italy in our home stadium of Macau, China.
In the third week, the Chinese women's volleyball team still played at home, playing against Bulgaria, Germany, Turkey, and Poland in Hong Kong, China. The Chinese women's volleyball team began to assemble and prepare for the game in mid-February this year, and this World Women's Volleyball League is the time to test the training results of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
In this World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team will not play against Brazil, Dominica and France, and among the 16 teams mentioned above, 7 teams have already won the Paris Olympics, namely Turkey, the United States, Brazil, Serbia, Poland, Dominica and the host France.
In addition, the Kenyan women's volleyball team, as the first place in Africa, also got the ticket to the Paris Olympics, so there are only 4 places left for the Paris Olympics, which will be produced from China, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Thailand, Bulgaria, and South Korea.
According to the current world rankings, the Bulgarian women's volleyball team ranks 20th and the South Korean women's volleyball team ranks 40th. In this way, in this World Women's Volleyball League, that is, China, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany and Thailand, the 7 teams, compete for 4 Olympic places, which is not particularly difficult!
At present, the Chinese women's volleyball team ranks 6th in the world, with a score of 329.65 points, and the Chinese women's volleyball team temporarily ranks first in Asia. The biggest competitor of the Chinese women's volleyball team is undoubtedly the Japanese women's volleyball team, and the Thai women's volleyball team should not be taken lightly.
Japan is currently ranked 8th in the world with 305.09 points, and Thailand is ranked 13th in the world with 222 points. It is not difficult to see that the current Chinese women's volleyball team is only 20 points higher than the Japanese women's volleyball team, which is a very weak advantage, 100 points higher than the Thai women's volleyball team, which is still a certain advantage.
In the women's volleyball Olympic qualifying tournament in September last year, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to the Netherlands, Canada and Dominica respectively, and did not win the quota for the Paris Olympics for the first time, which surprised many fans.
In this World Women's Volleyball League, Cai Bin will not allow any mistakes, and she must go all out in every game to keep her current position as the first in Asia, and she can go straight to the Paris Olympics.
Looking forward to the first match of the Chinese women's volleyball team against the South Korean team, there is still a big gap in the overall strength of the two sides, as long as the Chinese women's volleyball team plays normally, the 3-0 clean sheet opponent will be a high probability event. If the Chinese women's volleyball team wins 3-0, the world ranking points will increase by 0.93 points, and if the Chinese women's volleyball team wins 3-1 and 3-2, they will only increase by 0.01 points.
If the Chinese women's volleyball team loses to the South Korean team, the world ranking points will be deducted at least 14 points or more, 14.07 points will be deducted for a 2-3 loss, 16.57 points will be deducted for a 1-3 loss, and 19.07 points will be deducted for a 0-3 loss. To sum up, it is not difficult to see that due to the huge difference in the world rankings between China and South Korea, if the Chinese women's volleyball team loses, the points deducted are quite a lot, so the Chinese women's volleyball team cannot be careless at all.
The 14-member list of the Chinese women's volleyball team for this game is:
Main attack: Zhang Changning, Li Yingying, Wang Yunrui, Wu Mengjie
Secondary attack: Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan, Gao Yi
Answer: Gong Xiangyu, Zheng Yixin
Second setter: Ding Xia, Diao Linyu, Xu Xiaoting
Free people: Wang Mengjie, Ni Feifei
Among them, the main attack Wang Yizhu and the deputy attack Wang Wenhan did not enter the first South Korean squad, because the overall strength of the Korean women's volleyball team is not strong, for Cai Bin is mainly to hone the lineup, after all, the last time the Chinese women's volleyball team appeared on the international stage, it was in the Olympic women's volleyball qualifying match in September last year, and now nearly 8 months have passed.
It should not be difficult for the Chinese women's volleyball team to get off to a good start, and fans definitely want to see a different Chinese women's volleyball team, among which Zhang Changning, who returned to the national team after nearly three years, is undoubtedly the focus of attention of many fans, and Cai Bin's employment will also be the focus of fans.
CCTV5 will broadcast this game live, although the game time is at 4:30 am on the 15th, I believe that many fans will choose to get up early to watch the game, and wish the Chinese women's volleyball team good luck!