In the 2024 season of the World Women's Volleyball League, the first day of competition will be ushered in on May 15, and the Chinese women's volleyball team swept the South Korean team 3-0 in the first game, with Li Yingying scoring 17 points and Wu Mengjie scoring 14 points. In addition, the European powerhouse Italy lost 0-3 to Poland, the Dutch women's volleyball team defeated Bulgaria 3-0, and the South American powerhouse Brazil women's volleyball team defeated Canada 3-1.
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China Women's Volleyball Team 3-0 South Korea Women's Volleyball Team [25-15, 25-16, 25-14]
In this game, the Chinese women's volleyball team had an absolute advantage, swept the opponent in three straight games, and successfully won the first victory of the season. Judging from the comprehensive data, the Chinese team is ahead of the opponent 44-21 in attack, 12-6 in blocking and 6-4 in serving, which shows that the advantage of the game is very good. The Chinese team scored double-doubles, and the highest score was Li Yingying's 17 points [16 deductions and 1 block]. In addition, Wu Mengjie scored 14 points [10 deductions, 2 blocks and 2 shots], Yuan Xinyue 12 points [7 deductions, 4 blocks and 1 shot], and Gong Xiangyu 10 points [7 deductions, 2 blocks and 1 shot]. South Korea only had Kang So-hui in double figures with 12 points.
The Chinese women's volleyball team has not played for a long time, and this World Women's Volleyball League has an important task, that is, to maintain the world ranking in order to qualify for the Paris Olympics. This schedule has just begun, and the test of the Chinese women's volleyball team has not really arrived, and the next three opponents are very critical, and the United States, Canada and Serbia are not easy to deal with. Especially against Canada, which is ranked lower in the world, the two sides are key rivals, and they face each other at 4:30 a.m. on May 18.
Brazil Women's Volleyball 3-1 Canada Women's Volleyball [26-24, 23-25, 26-24, 25-12]
The first three games of this game were extremely close between the two sides, and the winners and losers were between the first line, and the Brazilian team seized the key points in the third game to take the lead. In the fourth game, the Brazilian team had an all-round advantage, quickly opening the gap and ending the suspense early. The Brazilian women's volleyball team has qualified for the Olympics, and the Canadian women's volleyball team is one of the key competitors of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
It was not easy for the Brazilian women's volleyball team to win this game, and there was actually no advantage in attack, but fortunately, the advantage of 14-5 was obvious at the blocking end. In this game, the Brazilian women's volleyball team scored 4 double-doubles, Cristina scored a team-high 19 points, and Rosamaria, Diana and Gabi scored 12 points each. Canadian women's volleyball heavy gunner Gray scored a game-high 23 points, followed by Van Rijk with 18 points.
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Bulgaria Women's Volleyball Team 0-3 Netherlands Women's Volleyball Team [14-25, 20-25, 22-25]
This game is the opening match of this World Ranking League, and the Dutch women's volleyball team played strongly, swept Bulgaria in three straight games, and thus won a good start to the season. The Dutch team, currently ranked 10th in the world, will also be in full force to qualify for the Olympic Games, and to some extent, they are also one of the rivals of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and the two sides will meet in the first round of the second week.
In this game, the Dutch women's volleyball team had obvious offensive advantages, and the error rate was very well controlled, and only 9 points were sent out by mistakes in the whole game; The Bulgarian team had a whopping 23 points in turnover, which shows that this is also the key to their sweep. The Dutch team had three players score in double figures, with Plak scoring a game-high 12 points, and Lohuis and Bouygis scoring 10 points each. The Bulgarian team only had Paskova in double figures with 11 points.
Italy Women's Volleyball 0-3 Poland Women's Volleyball [26-28, 23-25, 21-25]
The Italian women's volleyball team was swept by the Polish team, but the game was still very close, and the Italian team had a chance in the first 2 games, but unfortunately the key balls were not grasped. Italy lost this game and was deducted 10.63 points, and the world ranking slipped to seventh, behind the Chinese women's volleyball team; Poland received a corresponding bonus point and rose to fifth in the world rankings. Italy did not qualify for the Olympics, and the Netherlands, Japan, and Canada are all eyeing it, which is really careless.
There is not much difference in the comprehensive data of the two sides in this game, the Italian team has a relatively high error rate, and the Polish team has better control of mistakes. Poland's Stishak scored a game-high 17 points, followed by Körneluk 12, Mendežik 11 and Lukasik 10. Italy's Antropova scored a team-high 16 points, while C. Posetti and Danesi scored 10 points each.