The 2024 World Women's Volleyball League Rio de Janeiro has entered another match day. The Chinese women's volleyball team lost 1-3 to the Canadian women's volleyball team at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro in the early morning of May 18, Beijing time, suffering its first defeat of the season.
The starting lineup of the Chinese women's volleyball team in this game is still the main attack Li Yingying and Wu Mengjie, the secondary attack Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan, the second setter Diao Linyu, the receiver Gong Xiangyu and the libero Wang Mengjie. At the beginning of the game, the Chinese women's volleyball team's one-pass defense fluctuated slightly, and after a timely pause and adjustment, the teenager Wu Mengjie scored consecutive No. 4 offensive points to help the Chinese women's volleyball team stabilize the rhythm. In the ensuing game, the scores of the two sides rose to a stalemate. However, the Canadian women's volleyball team still relied on fast offense and tight blocking on key balls to win the first game 25-22.
In the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team used the serve as a breakthrough to better suppress the fast attack of the Canadian women's volleyball team. Under the pressure given by the Chinese women's volleyball team, the mistakes of the Canadian women's volleyball team increased, and the Chinese women's volleyball team concentrated on the initiative of the game, and Gong Xiangyu's No. 2 smash helped the Chinese women's volleyball team win back a game 25-20.
The Chinese women's volleyball team used the serve to drive the blocking defense in the opening stage of the third game and achieved good results, but in the middle of the game, the Canadian women's volleyball team tied the score after stabilizing a pass. At the end of the game, the Chinese women's volleyball team made a defensive mistake and unfortunately lost another game 23-25.
In the crucial fourth game, the serve was still the winner. The Chinese women's volleyball team made substitutions and adjustments in this game, the veteran Zhang Changning partnered Li Yingying to stand on the main offensive line, and the Chinese women's volleyball team also worked hard to continuously put pressure on the opponent at the net through serving and blocking. The Canadian women's volleyball team continued to use the challenge rules to interfere with the serving rhythm of the Chinese women's volleyball team when they were behind, and gradually caught up with the score. At the critical moment, the Canadian women's volleyball team won the fourth game 25-22 with the direct score of Van Rijk and Savard's serve.