This morning, Beijing time, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the world's second-ranked United States women's volleyball team 3-1 in the match of the World Women's Volleyball League in Brazil, and won two consecutive victories in the World League. After this game, the national team points of the Chinese women's volleyball team increased by 9.13 points, and the instant world ranking rose to fifth, occupying a favorable position in the competition for tickets to the Paris Olympics.
In this game, the Chinese women's volleyball team continued the starting lineup of the last game against the South Korean team, with Li Yingying and Wu Mengjie as the main attackers, Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan as the secondary attackers, Gong Xiangyu responded, Diao Linyu set the second set, and Wang Mengjie was a free man.
In the first game, the two sides were fiercely competitive, with the U.S. team relying on fast breaks to take the lead, while the Chinese team tightened the score through tenacious blocking. However, on the offensive end, the success rate of the Chinese team was not high, and after a pass was blocked many times, the Chinese team replaced Wu Mengjie with Wang Yunrui and replaced Zhang Changning with a serve, but the American team still won the first game 25-23.
In the second game, it was still a stalemate, and the Chinese team's first-pass completion rate improved, and at the end of the game, it reversed the passive situation through a tenacious counterattack and pulled back a city 25-23. In the third game, the U.S. team relied on the drop ball to score continuously, and the Chinese team kept falling behind. At the end of the game, the Chinese team scored three points in a row to overtake the opponent after falling behind 19-21 and achieved a reversal of 25-22. In the fourth game, the Chinese team played with momentum and ended the game 25-19.
Judging from the data, the Chinese team has an advantage in smashing, blocking and serving. Among them, Li Yingying scored a game-high 20 points, and Wang Yuanyuan also performed well, contributing 18 points. In addition, Gong Xiangyu scored 16 points, Yuan Xinyue scored 14 points, and Wang Yunrui scored 7 points.
In the early morning of May 18, Beijing time, the Chinese women's volleyball team will play against the Canadian women's volleyball team.