3-0！ The Chinese women's volleyball team swept the South Korean team and made a good start to the World Women's Volleyball League

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2024-05-15 06:49Posted on the official account of Zhejiang Chao News

Chao News client reporter Zhao Lei

In the early morning of May 14, Beijing time, the first leg of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League sub-tournament in Rio, Brazil officially kicked off, and the Chinese women's volleyball team ushered in the first opponent of this tournament, the South Korean women's volleyball team. In the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the opponent 3-0 and successfully made a good start to this tournament.

The Chinese team defeated the South Korean team 3-0 to get off to a good start in the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League. Image source: Chinese women's volleyball team

Starting lists for both sides. Screenshot of the live broadcast of the match

Before the game, the official website of the tournament announced the 14-man rosters of the two teams. The Chinese women's volleyball team sent a total of 16 people to Rio de Janeiro to compete, while the main attack Wang Yizhu and the secondary attack Wang Wenhan missed the first game. The starting lineup of the Chinese team: main attack Li Yingying, Wu Mengjie, secondary attack Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan, Gong Xiangyu, second setter Diao Linyu, free man Wang Mengjie.

Today's South Korean women's volleyball team has long since ceased to have the strength of Jin Ruanjing, and its strength has declined significantly in recent years.

The overall difference in strength between the two teams is also reflected in the past results. In the last World League, the Chinese team lost to the Turkish team and won the runner-up, creating the best result since participating in the competition in 2018. South Korea, on the other hand, had the best result in their debut in 2018, finishing 12th.

The disparity in strength between the two sides also led to the Chinese team being a little "thankless" in the competition with its opponents: if it wins 3-0, it can get 0.93 points, and if it wins 3-1 and 3-2, it will only have 0.01 points. If the Chinese team loses to the South Korean team, the deduction of points will cause the team to "lose a lot": 14.07 points for a 2-3 loss, 16.57 points for a 1-3 loss, and 19.07 points for a 0-3 loss. Therefore, the competition for each game of this battle is particularly crucial.

Li Yingying smashed the ball during the game. Image credit: FIVB

At the beginning of the game, the Chinese women's volleyball team opened with a three-point attack, and Diao Linyu scored directly on the serve, winning the first point of this World League for the Chinese women's volleyball team. The South Korean women's volleyball team used erratic serve and quick counterattacks to bite the Chinese team, and the two sides fought to a 7-7 draw. After returning from the pause, Yuan Xinyue's serve round The Chinese team scored continuously, Li Yingying and Wu Mengjie, the two main attackers, got the ball in the front and back rows, and the secondary attack position Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan's blocking helped the Chinese team to blossom more and gradually open up the advantage, stopping the opponent 16-9. Since then, the Chinese women's volleyball team girls have been like a rainbow, gradually widening the score gap, and won the first game 25-15.

In the second game, the Chinese team's pass was slightly undulating, and the score always rose alternately in the opening stage. In the middle game, the Chinese team gradually opened the score and won the next game 25-16.

In the third game, the momentum of the South Korean team was not there, and many people in the Chinese team showed their advantages in serving, and Gong Xiangyu and Wu Mengjie's serve rounds both caused the opponent to get stuck in the round, helping the Chinese women's volleyball team continue to expand its lead. When the Chinese team led the opponent by 10 points 21-11, Zhang Changning came off the bench and spontaneously helped the Chinese team to score another point. On the key points at the end of the game, Yuan Xinyue scored consecutive points and ended the game 25-14.

The scene of the competition. Image credit: FIVB

In the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team scored four double-doubles, Li Yingying scored a team-high 17 points (27 deductions, 16 mistakes, 2 mistakes, 1 block), Wu Mengjie scored 14 points (15 deductions, 10 hits, 2 blocks, 2 shots), Yuan Xinyue 12 points (11 deductions, 7 hits, 4 blocks, 1 shot), Gong Xiangyu 10 points (14 deductions, 7 hits, 2 mistakes, 2 blocks, 1 shot), Wang Yuanyuan 6 points (5 deductions, 3 hits, 3 blocks), Diao Linyu 2 points (2 shots), Zheng Yixin 1 point (4 deductions, 1 hit, 1 blocked). The Chinese team scored 44-21 in smashing, 12-6 in blocking, 6-4 in serving, and 14-13 in self-loss, which shows that the advantages of the Chinese women's volleyball team at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends are more obvious.

The results of the three sub-stations of this year's Women's Volleyball World League will be directly related to whether the Chinese women's volleyball team can stand on the stage of the Paris Olympics. Since the Chinese women's volleyball team failed to get the first time to get a ticket to the Paris Olympics in the Olympic qualifying tournament held in September last year, it can only hope for the world ranking advantage after the end of the World Women's Volleyball League to catch the "last train" to the Paris Olympics.

At 04:30 on May 17, Beijing time, the Chinese women's volleyball team will usher in the second opponent of the first match, the American women's volleyball team.

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