The 2024 FIVB World Women's Volleyball League officially kicked off, and the Chinese women's volleyball team ushered in the debut of the Rio de Janeiro station in Brazil, the opponent was the South Korean women's volleyball team that was difficult to win in the World Women's Volleyball League in the past two years. However, due to the low world ranking of the South Korean women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team won as a matter of course, and the team's world ranking only increased by 0.93 points, and the team still needs to show a better performance against strong teams in the future.
The match between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the South Korean women's volleyball team is the first appearance of the Chinese women's volleyball team this season, so this game is particularly eye-catching, from the world ranking point of view, the comprehensive strength of the two sides is very different, but the Chinese women's volleyball team still can't be careless, because according to the new FIVB ranking system, losing to a team that is much lower than their own ranking will be deducted a lot of points, at present, the Chinese women's volleyball team has not yet won the Olympic quota, every point is very critical for the team, and not being deducted points is also a way to earn points. In the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team sent all the main players to play, but compared with last year, head coach Cai Bin made a slight adjustment to the starting lineup, and Wu Mengjie, a young player from Jiangsu, replaced the controversial player Wang Yunrui to start, and other positions still continued last year's main players, Li Yingying, Yuan Xinyue, Gong Xiangyu, Wang Yuanyuan, Wang Mengjie, Diao Linyu all started.
The first game of the game started with a very fierce competition between the two sides, because it was the first game, the state of the Chinese women's volleyball team also needed to be properly adjusted, the two sides fought back and forth to 8-8 draw, the strength of the superior Chinese team then scored five points in a row to lead 13-8 to open the gap, at the end of the game, the Chinese women's volleyball team played a wave of scoring climax again and easily won 25-15 to take the lead. In the second game, the two sides started to a 3-3 draw, the Chinese women's volleyball team relied on Li Yingying, Wu Mengjie, Yuan Xinyue's attack to score four points in a row to open the score, and then the score of the two sides rose alternately, the Chinese women's volleyball team played some ups and downs in the first half of the game to let the South Korean women's volleyball team chase the score, but in the second half of the Chinese women's volleyball team's serve, attack and blocking all played their due level, especially Li Yingying's offensive success rate was very high, so that the team gradually opened the score, the Chinese women's volleyball team finally won 25-16 and the next city, leading the South Korean women's volleyball team 2-0. In the third game, the two sides chased me to a 4-4 draw, Wu Mengjie even blocked and buckled three points to help the Chinese team pull the score to 9-4, the more courageous the Chinese women's volleyball team gradually made efforts to pull the score to 19-7, and finally the Chinese women's volleyball team won the third game 25-14, and defeated the South Korean women's volleyball team with a total score of 3-0, ushering in a good start.
Due to the weak opponent in the first game, it was reasonable for the Chinese women's volleyball team to win, the players did not encounter too many difficulties in the game, and the players who started the game performed well. The core of the team, Li Yingying, scored a game-high 17 points with 28 deductions, 16 shots and 1 block, Wu Mengjie, who served as the main force for the first time, scored 14 points with 16 deductions, 10 shots, 2 blocks and 2 shots, captain Yuan Xinyue scored 12 points with 11 deductions, 7 shots, 4 blocks and 1 shot, Gong Xiangyu scored 10 points with 14 deductions, 7 shots, 2 blocks and 1 shot, Wang Yuanyuan scored 6 points with 5 deductions, 3 blocks and 3 blocks, and the Chinese women's volleyball team had four people score doubles, and the offensive points are still very scattered. Next, the Chinese women's volleyball team will play against the strong opponents of the United States women's volleyball team, the Canadian women's volleyball team and the Serbian women's volleyball team, of which the United States women's volleyball team and the Serbian women's volleyball team are world champions, and the Canadian women's volleyball team defeated the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Olympic qualifiers last year. Judging from the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team still has some changes, the teenager Wu Mengjie entered the starting lineup, and the veteran Zhang Changning made a short appearance to play acceptable, the fly in the ointment is that the Chinese women's volleyball team made more service errors in this game, and I hope they will play more perfectly in the next three games.