In the first week of the 2024 FIVB World Women's Volleyball League, Turkey and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Chinese women's volleyball team, which has attracted much attention from the outside world, ushered in its first opponent, the South Korean women's volleyball team, in the face of the Korean women's volleyball team that did not win a game in the event in the past two years, the Chinese women's volleyball team played exceptionally well, they swept the opponent 3-0 in three straight games to usher in a good start, and the score of the three games did not let the opponent exceed 16 points, and the Chinese women's volleyball team won a complete victory. The host Brazilian women's volleyball team encountered strong resistance from the Canadian women's volleyball team, and the Brazilian women's volleyball team won 3-1 after four games of fierce battles between the two sides, and the Brazilian women's volleyball team won by only two points in two games. There was a big upset in the Turkish game, and the Italian women's volleyball team lacked the ability to seize the opportunity in the match with the Polish women's volleyball team. In another game in the same group, the Dutch women's volleyball team, which was the semi-finalist of the Olympic Games, defeated the Bulgarian women's volleyball team 3-0 in three straight games, taking a solid step towards the Paris Olympics.
In Turkey, the Dutch women's volleyball team, which is going all out to fight for a ticket to the Paris Olympics, played the first game against the Bulgarian women's volleyball team, which has reached the quarterfinals of the European Championship and has a certain strength, the Dutch women's volleyball team is currently ranked around ten in the world, and has the possibility of participating in the Paris Olympics, of course, they must also achieve good results in the World League. In the first game, the two sides competed fiercely at the beginning, and the Dutch women's volleyball team, which had the advantage in strength, gradually made efforts to pull the score away in the middle game and took the lead with a disparity of 25-14. In the first 16 points of the second game, the two sides competed fiercely, and the two teams fought back and forth many times to tie the score, and the Dutch women's volleyball team stabilized its position and scored consecutive points to open the score again and finally 25-20 and then the next city, leading 2-0. In the third game, Bulgaria, which had no way out, played very tenacious, and they created a considerable threat to the Dutch women's volleyball team, but although the Dutch women's volleyball team made a lot of mistakes, they won 25-22 and defeated the Bulgarian women's volleyball team with a total score of 3-0. In another game on the first day, the world runner-up Italian women's volleyball team played poorly, and they lacked the ability to grasp opportunities in the match with the Polish women's volleyball team, which has improved rapidly recently, and finally the Italian women's volleyball team lost three games in a row, losing to the opponent with a total score of 0-3, and failed to usher in a good start.
The first game of the Brazilian women's volleyball team, the host of the Rio de Janeiro station, played against the Canadian women's volleyball team, which defeated the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Olympic qualifiers last year and made people shine. At the beginning of the game, the two teams played inextricably, the first two games of the two sides have been biting the score, the Brazilian women's volleyball team seized the opportunity in the first game to win 26-24, the Canadian women's volleyball team won the second game to win 25-23, and the first two games between the two sides were tied 1-1. In the third game, the competition between the two sides was more intense, and the Canadian women's volleyball team exerted huge pressure on the host at the end of the game, and they stubbornly chased the score to 24-24 after saving the game points in a row, but unfortunately the next two balls were not handled properly, and the Brazilian women's volleyball team won 26-24 again, and the big score overtook Canada again. In the fourth game, the Brazilian women's volleyball team did not give the opponent too many chances, scoring consecutive points at the beginning to take a 7-1 lead, and the backward Canadian women's volleyball team was defeated, and the host became more and more brave to make the score bigger and bigger, and finally won easily 25-12, defeating the Canadian women's volleyball team with a total score of 3-1, and ushered in a strong start.
The Canadian women's volleyball team and the Italian women's volleyball team lost one after another, which is a good thing for the Chinese women's volleyball team, both teams are the obstacles for the Chinese women's volleyball team to compete for the Paris Olympics tickets, the Italian women's volleyball team lost the world ranking points by the Chinese women's volleyball team, and Canada failed to win the Brazilian women's volleyball team and failed to approach the points gap with the Chinese women's volleyball team, and the Chinese women's volleyball team won the Paris Olympics ticket has increased a lot of probability. After the end of the first match day, the latest points ranking of this World League is also freshly released, the Chinese women's volleyball team temporarily ranked first among all teams by virtue of the huge small score advantage obtained by sweeping the South Korean women's volleyball team in the first game, the Netherlands women's volleyball team, the Polish women's volleyball team, the Brazilian women's volleyball team, the three teams also scored three points in the first game and ranked second to fourth, the Canadian women's volleyball team ranked fifth, and the South Korean women's volleyball team, Bulgarian women's volleyball team and Italy women's volleyball team ranked in the bottom three on the first day.