Is the New Bitter Lord coming? The Chinese women's volleyball team lost to Canada again, and the world ranking points were deducted by 11.01 and fell to 7th

Beiqing Sports

2024-05-18 07:46Published on the official account of Beijing Beiqing Sports News

In the early morning of May 18, Beijing time, in the third game of the Brazilian station of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 1-3 to the world's 11th-ranked Canadian team in four games, and the world ranking points were deducted 11.01 points, falling to 7th, temporarily leading the 8th-ranked Japanese women's volleyball team by 5.49 points. This defeat caused the Chinese women's volleyball team to suffer huge losses.

In the past two seasons, the Canadian women's volleyball team has made significant progress. Under the leadership of attackers Gray and Van Rijk, the Canadian women's volleyball team has developed a unique style of play and has the strength to impact the first-team team. In the 2023 Paris Olympic Games qualifying round, Canada defeated the Chinese women's volleyball team 3-2, preventing the Chinese women's volleyball team from qualifying for the Olympics in advance. The Canadian women's volleyball team is currently ranked 11th in the world and still has a chance to impact the Paris Olympics.

In this game, the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Cai Bin, continued to send the new Wu Mengjie to partner Li Yingying in the first three games. In addition, the starting secondary attack is still Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan, Gong Xiangyu, Diao Linyu, and Wang Mengjie. In this game, Wu Mengjie scored high scores in the first two games, but the Chinese women's volleyball team had the problem of being difficult to resist the opponent's strong attack in the first two games. After losing 22-25 in the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team gained a big advantage in the second game and tied the game 25-20.

At the beginning of the third game, Wu Mengjie was targeted by the Canadian women's volleyball team to chase the serve, and the Chinese women's volleyball team was trapped and fell behind at the beginning. After that, the Canadian team staged an offensive wave and quickly opened the score. Cai Bin sent Ding Xia to the court to respond, and the Canadian women's volleyball team seized the opportunity of the Chinese team's slow pace and played the next game 25-23. In the fourth game, Zhang Changning made his debut and partnered with Li Yingying to attack the diagonal. The Chinese women's volleyball team once mastered the rhythm and took the lead. It's a pity that the Chinese team has become conservative again since then, and the Canadian women's volleyball team has won one after another through a fighting serve, and staged a reversal to win the whole game 25-22. The Chinese women's volleyball team had no choice but to swallow the first defeat of this World Women's Volleyball League.

The technical statistics of the whole game show that the Chinese women's volleyball team scored three double-doubles. Among them, Li Yingying scored a team-high 24 points, Gong Xiangyu scored 15 points, and Wu Mengjie scored 12 points. Wang Yuanyuan faced the strong attack of the Canadian team, and the defensive score became less, and she scored 9 points in the game. Zhang Changning and Zheng Yixin came off the bench and scored two points each.

In the previous game, the Chinese women's volleyball team not only greatly boosted morale, but also gained considerable points after defeating the American women's volleyball team, which is now ranked second in the world. In the FIVB world rankings, the Chinese women's volleyball team once surpassed the Italian and Polish women's volleyball teams and came to No. 5. However, with the Chinese women's volleyball team losing 1-3 to the Canadian team, which is ranked 11th in the world, it lost 11.01 points according to the rules, and is currently temporarily back to 7th place in the world ranking with 328.69 points. In terms of points, the Chinese women's volleyball team is only 5.49 points more than the Japanese women's volleyball team ranked 8th. The Canadian women's volleyball team gained a lot from this victory, and there was only a gap of less than 3 points from the 10th-ranked Dutch women's volleyball team, and the hope of qualifying for the Paris Olympics increased sharply.

Next, the Chinese women's volleyball team will play against the European powerhouse Serbian women's volleyball team at 1 a.m. Beijing time on May 19, which is also the final battle of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Brazil of this World League.

Text/Beiqing Sports Chu Peng

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