At 1 a.m. Beijing time on May 17, the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League kicked off two matches at the same time in Brazil and Turkey: the second round of Turkey, Turkey vs. the Netherlands; In the second round of the Brazilian station, Brazil played against South Korea. In the end, after four rounds of fierce battles 1-3, the European powerhouse Dutch women's volleyball team swallowed the first defeat, the world's No. 1 Turkish women's volleyball team ushered in its first victory, and the Asian No. 6 South Korean women's volleyball team once again refreshed the bottom line and lost 29 games in a row, and was swept by the Brazilian women's volleyball team 0-3.
Last season, after getting the World Championship champion coach Santarelli to join, the Turkish women's volleyball team finally ushered in a major breakthrough in the results, after winning the World Women's Volleyball League championship for the first time, and became the champion of the Women's Volleyball European Championship for the first time. In this year's World Women's Volleyball League, Turkey participated as the defending champion, fighting on home soil in the first week, but unexpectedly there was an upset in the first round, losing to the Japanese women's volleyball team 2-3 in five games, and suffered a black start at home. In this round, the Turkish women's volleyball team ushered in its second opponent: the world's No. 10 Dutch women's volleyball team, which is also a European powerhouse.
The Dutch women's volleyball team has entered the top 4 of the Olympic Games, and last year's women's volleyball European Championship also won the third place, and the strength is not bad! And, because the Dutch women's volleyball team has not won the ticket to the Paris Olympics for the time being, from the first week, the Dutch women's volleyball team has sent all the main forces to participate in the competition of the World Women's Volleyball League, the goal is to obtain enough points through this World Women's Volleyball League and improve their world ranking, so as to strive for a ticket to the Paris Olympics. In the previous first round, the Dutch women's volleyball team swept Bulgaria 3-0.
In the first game, the host Turkish women's volleyball team played even better, firmly suppressed the Dutch women's volleyball team at both offensive and defensive ends, quickly opened the score, and easily took the next city 25-14. However, in the second game, the Dutch women's volleyball team improved its state, with the outbreak of the second half of the game, completed the single-game reversal, grasped the key points and narrowly won 25-23, successfully pulled back a city, and chased the total score to a 1-1 draw. In the third game, the Turkish women's volleyball team led all the way, and the Dutch women's volleyball team chased to a 21-21 draw and then saved the game point, but in the end, the Turkish women's volleyball team was better and narrowly won 25-23. In the fourth game, the Turkish women's volleyball team scored another game, thus defeating the Dutch women's volleyball team with a total score of 3-1, and the world No. 1 ushered in the first victory of this year's World Women's Volleyball League.
Another game that started at the same time is the second round of the Brazilian station, the host Brazilian women's volleyball team against the South Korean women's volleyball team, in terms of world rankings, the gap between the two teams is very large, the Brazilian women's volleyball team ranks third in the world, the South Korean women's volleyball team has fallen to the world's 41st, in Asia, the South Korean women's volleyball team has also slipped to 6th, not only behind the Chinese women's volleyball team, the Japanese women's volleyball team, Thailand women's volleyball team 3 traditional strong teams, and even surpassed by Kazakhstan and Vietnam women's volleyball team! In addition, spanning 4 seasons, the South Korean women's volleyball team has suffered a miserable 28-game losing streak in the World Women's Volleyball League, losing 0-3 to the Chinese women's volleyball team in the last game.
In this matchup, there was no suspense, the host Brazilian women's volleyball team won three games in a row 25-15, 25-19, 25-17, and easily swept the South Korean women's volleyball team with a total score of 3-0, and won the first week of the first week of the tournament with two consecutive wins! The South Korean women's volleyball team once again refreshed the bottom line, losing 29 games in a row in the World Women's Volleyball League across 4 seasons!