In the second round of the World League, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the United States team 3:1 and won two consecutive league victories, with the help of this game, the Chinese women's volleyball team also regained the top position in the standings, winning South Korea 3:0 in the first game, and winning the United States 3:1 in the second game. After the end of this game, I think it is also three very good news for the Chinese women's volleyball team.
First of all, after the Chinese team won this game, they increased their FIVB points again, because the world ranking of the American team is higher than that of the Chinese team, so this time we have gained far more points than the first game, after this game, the FIVB has also updated the latest world rankings, although the Italian women's volleyball team defeated the German team in the second round of the game, but because the German team is ranked lower than them, so they got fewer points than us. At the same time, the second game of the Polish women's volleyball team has not yet started, so the Chinese women's volleyball team took advantage of this victory over the United States team to overtake the Polish team and Italy at once and came to the fifth place in the world rankings.
This is the Chinese women's volleyball team's return to the top five in the world after more than half a year. After the end of the World Women's Volleyball League last year, the Chinese team returned to the top five in the world, but because the performance of the Chinese team was relatively average in the direct Olympic Games, it was overtaken by the Italian team again. A return to the top five will not only help us qualify for the Olympics, but will also make our group stage even more favourable if we can push further into the top four when the draw for the Olympic finals is drawn.
The second good news is that the overall performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team in this game is good, especially in some tactics in the key training in this training camp, which are used very well, for example, our back-row attack today is obviously much better than before. The Chinese women's volleyball team is indeed lacking some strong scorers in this position, so our offensive line relies more on the middle and the front row, and how to develop more offensive lines is very important. In a situation where there is really no way to break through on the wings, this year our training focus is on attacking in the back three, and today's back row attack has been very well verified.
In the end, the United States team was the strongest opponent encountered by the Chinese women's volleyball team in the first Brazil match, and our next two opponents were Canada and Serbia. Needless to say, the strength of the Canadian team is considered to be at a lower than average level, and the Chinese women's volleyball team will definitely have no problem winning according to the state of the first two games. The Serbian team is indeed a strong team, but they came to the first game as a substitute, and the overall strength of the squad is not as good as the Chinese women's volleyball team, so we have reason to believe that the Chinese women's volleyball team will not have a big problem winning the next two games after defeating the United States, the most powerful opponent in this battle.
I wish the Chinese women's volleyball team can achieve four consecutive victories in the first leg of the World Women's Volleyball League, and make a good start for this season's World League.