In the early morning of May 16, Beijing time, in the Turkish station of the Women's Volleyball World League, the world's ninth-ranked Japanese women's volleyball team defeated the world's No. 1 Turkish women's volleyball team 3-2, causing a big upset. The scores in five games were: 25-23, 25-21, 23-25, 20-25, 15-11. After winning this game, Japan gained 9.9 points, rose one place in the world rankings, and temporarily ranked eighth with a total score of 315.99 points, only 15 points behind the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Japanese women's volleyball team
Before the game, fans generally believed that the Turkish women's volleyball team had a better chance of winning, because Santarelli sent all the main players from the first leg of the World League, and Vargas, Karakurt, Baladin, Güneš and others all participated with the team. What's more, the Turkish women's volleyball team is a local battle and has a home advantage, and this game attracted almost tens of thousands of people to watch, and the stadium was full.
The venue was packed
Turkey is on the fire
Who knows, at the beginning of the game, the situation was not as one-sided as predicted before the game, but the Japanese women's volleyball team kept pressing Turkey in terms of score. In the middle of the first game, the Japanese women's volleyball team took advantage of Turkey's mistakes and excellent defense to open the score 14-11, and then the two sides went back and forth, and finally the Japanese women's volleyball team won the first game 25-23.
Santarelli looked serious
In the second game, the Japanese women's volleyball team played a wave of small climaxes at the beginning, frequently using defense to support Turkey's attack, and then quickly counterattacked, and beat Turkey 12-4 at the beginning! After that, Turkey fought to catch up with the deafening cheers of the whole court, and once overtook the score to 19-18, but Japan still used the attack of Sarina Koga and Ishikawa Mayu to win the key points, and finally the Japanese women's volleyball team won another game 25-21.
Sarina Koga
In the third game, Turkey, which had a back-to-back battle, replaced Karakurt and Shahin, and established an advantage at the beginning, leading 6-1, but the good times did not last long, and the Japanese women's volleyball team quickly approached the score through a quick serve, which made the fans watching the game extremely nervous, and finally at the end of the game, Turkey relied on the successful blocking of the net to freeze the score at 25-23, and Turkey pulled back a game!
Karakurt
In the fourth game, Karakurt and Vargas rotated and were Turkey's most critical attackers, and through the onslaught of this game, Turkey led all the way to the score, and finally won another game 25-21. The two sides went to a tiebreaker.
In the fifth game, the tense atmosphere and lack of physical fitness made Turkish players make mistakes repeatedly, and the Japanese women's volleyball team took the opportunity to establish a score advantage, and finally won the whole game 15-11.
The Japanese women's volleyball team won
The Japanese women's volleyball team performed very well as a whole in this game, although the whole team is not tall, but the players are well-trained. The three attackers, Sarina Koga, Masuke Ishikawa and Linchenna, smashed the ball quickly and had a variety of techniques, making it difficult for Turkey to block. In addition, the Japanese women's volleyball team performed very well on the defensive end, and the success rate of Vargas and Karakurt's strong jumping and heavy dunk defense was very high. On many occasions, they used defense to play quick counter-attacks to establish an advantage. This Japanese women's volleyball team is very strong, and the Chinese women's volleyball team needs to be more careful with this opponent in Macau, China!
Masayoshi Manabe
Stats of both sides of the battle:
Sarina Koga made 27 of 67 deductions, 10 mistakes were blocked, 1 block and 3 shots, 31 points!
Ishikawa Shinyu made 18 of 43 deductions, 7 mistakes were blocked, 0 blocks and 2 shots, 20 points!
Lin Qinnai made 8 of 29 deductions, 4 mistakes were blocked, 0 blocks and 0 shots, 8 points!
Tugba made 15 of 34 deductions, 5 mistakes were blocked, 3 blocks and 1 shot, 19 points!
Karakurt made 14 of 34 deductions, 5 mistakes were blocked, 1 block and 1 shot, 16 points!
Baladin made 14 of 34 deductions, 4 mistakes were blocked, 0 blocks and 1 shot, 15 points!
Vargas made 9 of 37 shots, 7 turnovers were blocked, 3 blocks and 0 shots, 12 points!
Vargas didn't do well
Due to the relationship between the Japanese women's volleyball team and the Chinese women's volleyball team to compete for the qualification for the Paris Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team needs to pay more attention to the situation of the Japanese women's volleyball team in terms of points and rankings, and must not be overtaken by Japan in the world rankings, so as to ensure that after the World League sub-tournament, it can beat Japan to qualify for the Paris Olympics with the best ranking in Asia.