The FIVB Women's Volleyball World League 2024 begins the first week of competition in Brazil and Turkey, and this year's World League competition is more fierce than ever before, as the results of this year's World League are linked to the last few places in the Paris Olympics. The first game of the Turkish station broke out in a big upset, the former European champion, the Chinese women's volleyball team to compete for the Paris Olympics ticket to the strongest opponent of the Italian women's volleyball team in the game with the Polish women's volleyball team played poorly, they failed to usher in a good start under the leadership of the new coach, the key points to grasp the opportunity is slightly inferior, they finally lost three games in a row with a total score of 0-3 to the Polish women's volleyball team, suffered the World League's black start at the same time broke out the first big upset of the World League, Italy was deducted a huge amount of points, the world ranking was overtaken by the Chinese women's volleyball team, This is huge good news for the Chinese women's volleyball team.
After the end of the World League, the FIVB will determine which four teams will get tickets to the Paris Olympics according to the latest world rankings, and the world runner-up Italian women's volleyball team has not yet qualified for the Paris Olympics due to its poor performance in the qualifiers last year, but they are confident that they did not send all the main lineups to play in the first game, and famous players such as Egnu and Serra did not appear in the first week of the list, it seems that the head coach of the Italian women's volleyball team is still very optimistic about the team getting tickets, Of course, they have proud capital, before the start of the World League, the Italian women's volleyball team has not yet won the Olympic ticket team ranked highest in the world, and the points are more than ten points more than the Chinese women's volleyball team, which is still not a small advantage. The first match of the Italian women's volleyball team was the Polish women's volleyball team that beat them in the Olympic qualifiers last year, which was ranked seventh in the world, two places lower than the Italian women's volleyball team, but the Italian women's volleyball team did not seem to take the opponent seriously, as evidenced by the semi-main and semi-substitute lineup.
In this game, the Polish women's volleyball team sent all the main forces to play, and the Italian women's volleyball team that did not send all the main forces also sent the strongest lineup to meet the enemy, Zhu Ting's club teammate Antropova became the core of the Italian team in this game, the Italian women's volleyball team was passive at the beginning of the first game and fell behind 1-5, but then the Italian women's volleyball team gradually stabilized its position to tie and overtake the score, unfortunately the Italian women's volleyball team with high mistakes was overtaken by the Polish women's volleyball team at the end of the game, The Italian women's volleyball team, which lacked the ability to grasp the opportunity with key points, lost the first game 26-28. At the end of the second game, the Italian women's volleyball team made too many mistakes to bury the game, and the Polish women's volleyball team seized the opportunity to take the next city 25-23, leading 2-0. In the third game, the Italian women's volleyball team had no way out to take a slight lead in the first half, but unfortunately in the second half it was defeated by the Polish women's volleyball team 25-21, and Italy lost to the Polish women's volleyball team with a total score of 0-3.
The two sides played evenly in this game, the Italian women's volleyball team lost in the high number of mistakes, the core of the Polish women's volleyball team Stishak scored 17 points, Koneluk scored 12 points, Lukasik scored 10 points, and Mendeřik scored 11 points. In the Italian women's volleyball team, the core Antropova scored 16 points, Posetti Jr. and the new captain Danesi both scored 10 points, and De Grady scored 9 points. After the Italian women's volleyball team lost to the Polish women's volleyball team, their world ranking points were deducted as much as 10 points, which is undoubtedly a big blow to their competition for tickets to the Paris Olympics, the world ranking of the Italian women's volleyball team dropped from fifth to seventh, after the Chinese women's volleyball team swept the South Korean women's volleyball team, although the points only increased by less than one point, but it was enough to surpass the Italian women's volleyball team, the current Chinese women's volleyball team is the highest ranked in the world among all the teams that have not yet got the Olympic tickets, which is undoubtedly very beneficial for the Chinese women's volleyball team to compete for the Paris Olympics tickets.