On May 18, Beijing time, the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ended a focus battle, and the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 1-3 to the Canadian women's volleyball team. The Chinese women's volleyball team, which missed three consecutive wins, was deducted 11.01 points, with a total score of 328.70 points, and the world ranking fell two places to seventh.
Before the first match between China and Canada, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated South Korea and the United States in a row, showing a good competitive state, and the world ranking also rose to fifth, and the battle for Olympic qualification is quite good. If it can defeat the Canadian women's volleyball team, then the Chinese team will continue to maintain the lead over other teams, but it backfired, and the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 1-3. In terms of starters, the Chinese team continued the lineup of the first two games, with the main attack Li Yingying and Wu Mengjie, the secondary attack Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan, the second setter Diao Linyu and the libero Wang Mengjie all appeared, and the Canadian women's volleyball team started with Gray and Howey, the secondary attack White, Maglio, and the response to Van Rijk, the second setter Brie King and the libero Moorman.
In the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team was slow to heat up, 0-2, 2-4, 3-7 has been in a backward situation, although Wu Mengjie combined with hanging to help the Chinese team successfully chase 7 draws, and once achieved a 15-14 overtake in the middle game, but the Canadian team's offensive was quite sharp, and soon won the game point 24-21. After Gong Xiangyu saved a game point, Van Rijk's breakthrough was completed, and the Canadian women's volleyball team took the lead 25-22.
In the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team took the lead in entering the state, and opened the score difference with 7-3, and maintained a lead of 11-5 and 15-6 in the middle game. The Canadian women's volleyball team fought hard to serve, Wu Mengjie's pass encountered a big test, the Canadian team chased to 19-22, Li Yingying's heavy buckle at the critical moment was not soft, and with Gong Xiangyu's final word, the Chinese women's volleyball team successfully pulled back a game 25-20.
In the third game, Wang Yuanyuan's serve disrupted the opponent's rhythm, and the Chinese women's volleyball team rewrote the score to a 7-4 lead after falling behind 0-3. Magrio's serve caused the Chinese team to be chaotic and difficult to organize an effective attack, and Canada blasted a 6-0 attack wave to achieve a 12-10 overtake. Although the Chinese team stubbornly chased the score to 17 draws, the Canadian team's counterattacks worked again and again, and the Chinese team, which fell behind 18-20, replaced Zhang Changning to strengthen the first pass and the back row defense. When the two sides fought to 22 draws, Van Rijk and White made contributions one after another, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 2 points, Gray's breakthrough hit a fatal blow, and the Canadian women's volleyball team won another game 25-23.
In the fourth game, Li Yingying's opposite corner was replaced by Zhang Changning, and after the two sides were entangled to 9 draws, the Chinese team scored 4 points in a row to open up the difference, and Canada quickly scored 3 points in a row to chase 12-13. Zhang Changning's strong attack, Wang Yuanyuan's serve, Yuan Xinyue's probe and Van Rijk's smash out of bounds to send points helped the Chinese women's volleyball team expand its lead 17-12. At this time, the Canadian women's volleyball team began to fight back wildly, Becker's service wheel helped the Canadian team fall behind from 15-19 and achieve a 22-20 overtake, although the Chinese team scored 2 points in a row to tie again, but the Chinese women's volleyball team still failed to turn defeat into victory when the pass was unstable, losing the game 22-25 at the same time, and losing to the Canadian women's volleyball team again with a total score of 1-3.
The Chinese women's volleyball team scored 3 doubles, Li Yingying 24 points, Gong Xiangyu 15 points, Wu Mengjie 12 points, Wang Yuanyuan 9 points, Yuan Xinyue 7 points, Diao Linyu, Zheng Yixin, Zhang Changning all scored 2 points. The Canadian women's volleyball team scored two double-doubles, Van Rijk 27 points, Gray 21 points, White 9 points, Johnson 8 points, Magrio 7 points, Brikin 4 points, Savard 2 points, Bakkel 1 point.
The fourth and last opponent of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Brazil is the Serbian women's volleyball team, the game time is 1 am on May 19, and I hope that the players of the Chinese team will come out of the shadow of defeat in time and get three points.