On May 15, Beijing time, on the first match day of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team swept the South Korean women's volleyball team 3-0. Wu Mengjie, who started the game, became the team's biggest surprise, she made 10 of 16 deductions, 2 points each for blocking and serving, and scored 14 points. Last year, the Chinese women's volleyball team has not found a suitable Li Yingying opposite corner, Wang Yunrui and Zhong Hui have not performed well, Cai Bin finally transferred Wu Mengjie into the team, but last year's Wu Mengjie was still a little immature and played averagely.
Wu Mengjie has made a lot of progress this year. Cai Bin no longer paranoidly used Wang Yunrui to start, and chose to pair Wu Mengjie and Li Yingying, and the two main attackers took turns to achieve excellent results. The Chinese women's volleyball team won all three games very easily, with the scores of 25-15, 25-16, and 25-14 in the three games.
The Chinese women's volleyball team basically did not encounter any resistance. Wu Mengjie has also proven herself to be trustworthy. In this game, Li Yingying scored 17 points, Wang Yuanyuan scored 12 points, Gong Xiangyu scored 10 points, Wang Yuanyuan scored 6 points, Diao Linyu scored 2 points, Zheng Yixin 1 point, and the performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team in all aspects met expectations and made a good start.
The rise of Wu Mengjie is at the right time, and the Chinese women's volleyball team needs more post-00s players to stand up and seize power. Wang Yunrui performed poorly in the women's volleyball league last season, Zhang Changning had just recovered from injury after all, and the young Wu Mengjie seized the opportunity.
Cai Bin said in an interview after the game that during the training camp of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Zhangzhou, Wu Mengjie entered the lineup of the main group, for Wu Mengjie's performance, Cai Bin said that it was decent, and the fly in the ointment was that Wu Mengjie was still a little nervous in the game. It can be seen that Cai Bin recognizes Wu Mengjie's performance. It's just that it's inevitable that young players will be nervous.
The Chinese women's volleyball team needs to rely on the performance of the World Women's Volleyball League to maintain the No. 1 ranking in Asia in order to qualify for the Olympic Games, and every game in the World Women's Volleyball League is very important.
Zhu Ting won't play in the first tournament and she won't play until the second tournament, so Wu Mengjie has ample opportunities to show her ability in Brazil, which is also related to her ability to compete in the Paris Olympics.
Generally speaking, there are 12 people in the Olympic Games, and there may be 4 main attackers, Zhu Ting and Li Yingying will definitely occupy two positions, and Olympic champion Zhang Changning is also expected to get a position. Wu Mengjie needs to compete with Wang Yunrui for a position. Now Wu Mengjie is in the starting position, temporarily taking the lead in the competition with Wang Yunrui, and she played an excellent performance in this game, which is equivalent to consolidating her position. Next, she needs to make persistent efforts to help the Chinese women's volleyball team win.