The first week of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League entered the third round of matches, and the Chinese women's volleyball team faced the Canadian women's volleyball team.
In the first two rounds, the Chinese women's volleyball team swept the South Korean women's volleyball team 3-0 and defeated the American women's volleyball team 3-1, winning two consecutive victories. The Canadian women's volleyball team lost 1-3 to the Brazilian women's volleyball team and swept the Dominican women's volleyball team 3-0.
The Chinese women's volleyball team continued the starting lineup of the first two games, sending Wu Mengjie, Li Yingying, Wang Yuanyuan, Yuan Xinyue, Gong Xiangyu, Diao Linyu, and Wang Mengjie respectively. The Canadian women's volleyball team sent Gray, Howey, White, Magglio, Van Rijk, Brie. Kim and Murman's starters.
The strength of the Canadian women's volleyball team was very average before, and the Chinese women's volleyball team could easily defeat them. But after the Chinese women's volleyball team unexpectedly lost to the Canadian women's volleyball team in the 2021 World League, this team seems to have suddenly become stronger, and it is difficult for the Chinese women's volleyball team to win this team easily.
In the first game, the Canadian team got off to a 2-0 start. Li Yingying scored with a straight smash, and the Canadian player hung the ball and hit the rod. The Chinese team tied the score. The Canadian team scored offensively, and Li Yingying received a pass. Canada took a 4-2 lead. Wang Yuanyuan quickly attacked. Canada's Van Rijk scored with a slash, Li Yingying's lob was blocked, and the Canadian team's hitter went out of bounds. The Canadian team opened up the gap 7-3.
Wu Mengjie scored 3 points in a row, and the Canadian player touched the net. The Chinese team tied the score. The two sides fell into a stalemate, and the score was tied many times, until it reached 15 draws. Wang Yuanyuan scored on a fast break, and the Chinese team took the lead. Unexpectedly, the Canadian team scored 4 points in a row and took the lead again. Cai Bin used two for three, replaced Diao Linyu and Gong Xiangyu with Ding Xia and Zheng Yixin, and used Zhang Changning to serve. The Chinese women's volleyball team still failed to change the backward situation. The Canadian women's volleyball team retained a three-point advantage and won the first game 25-22.
In the first game, both sides scored 16 points on offense and lost 4 points on their own, but the Chinese team only scored 2 points for blocking the net, 2 points less than the opponent, the Canadian team scored 1 point on the serve, and the Chinese team did not score on the serve.
The Chinese team scored the most points, Wu Mengjie, with 6 points. Teenager Wu Mengjie played at a high level. Li Yingying and Wang Yuanyuan each scored three points. They were slow to get into the groove. The top scorer for Canada was Van Rijk, with eight points.
In the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team obviously played much better. Li Yingying smashed the ball and was blocked, and the Canadian team scored the first point. The Chinese team blocked the net and scored, and Li Yingying scored 2 points in a row on the serve. The Chinese team scored 3 points in a row to overtake the score. Gong Xiangyu grabbed the gap to score, then served to score, and Wu Mengjie hit out of bounds. The Chinese team scored three points in a row to lead the Canadian team 7:3.
In the middle game, the Chinese women's volleyball team scored 4 points in a row and led the Canadian team 15:6. The advantage of the Chinese team is obvious. Although the Canadian team narrowed the gap to three points at one point, the Chinese team maintained the lead and pulled back a game 25-20.
The first two games were tied at 1-1.
In the second game, Wu Mengjie scored another 4 points, and her performance was okay. However, Li Yingying completely broke out, cutting 9 points, including 3 points on serve. Gong Xiangyu also scored 5 points.