On May 18, Beijing time, the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League continued, and in Turkey, Japan defeated Germany 3-0 (25-21/25-15/25-22) and won three consecutive victories. Sarina Koga 20 points, Ishikawa Masuke 18 points, Hayashi Chenna 12 points, Weitzel 13 points, Drunioke 12 points.
The strength of the Japanese trident is really strong, and the secondary attack also has matching tactics, and the overall offense is very smooth, and the state of the three games is very hot.
The opponent of the Chinese women's volleyball team is the North American powerhouse Canada, the two teams have met 7 times before, the Chinese women's volleyball team has 5 wins and 2 losses, two losses, one is the non-main force led by Lang Ping, and the other time occurred in last year's Olympic Championships, Cai Bin led the main force, Canada has improved a lot in the past two years, the two side attackers Gray and Van Rijk are the core of the team, and the starting team of the Chinese women's volleyball team continues to remain unchanged, and it is still Wu Mengjie who plays.
At the beginning of the game, Li Yingying attacked the straight line, Canada made a mistake in cushioning, Wang Yuanyuan fastball, Canada's offensive was very fierce 7-3 lead, Wu Mengjie scored a high point, and then the next point, Canada touched the net, Wu Mengjie scored with a hanging ball, chasing 7-7, Diao Linyu made a second ball, Van Rijk made a service error, smashed the ball and went to the net, Wang Yuanyuan scored a fastball, 11-11 draw.
Canada hit the ball over the net, Wu Mengjie blocked Gray, Wu Mengjie hit the hand out of bounds to challenge successfully, and then fell behind 16-19, Li Yingying counterattacked and scored, Zheng Yixin attacked, Gong Xiangyu blocked Gray, chased to 21-22, but unfortunately lost the first game 22-25. The 3-point loss was in the block and serve, and the offense was equal. The offensive efficiency of the three side attackers of the Chinese women's volleyball team is not high.
In the second game, Li Yingying served and scored, Wu Mengjie adjusted the attack, Gong Xiangyu scored with a hanging ball, the Chinese women's volleyball team took a 6-3 lead, Gong Xiangyu scored on the serve, Wu Mengjie scored again, Wang Mengjie defended well, Li Yingying counterattacked and scored with a hanging ball, 9-4 to continue to lead, Yuan Xinyue had a fast back, Wang Yuanyuan scored with a hanging ball, Van Rijk served and went to the net, Mitrovic smashed the ball out of bounds, Li Yingying counterattacked and scored another point, opening the score with 14-6.
Li Yingying cut the super small slash, Gong Xiangyu pressed the line in a straight line, Yuan Xinyue's fastball hit the back row, Wu Mengjie counterattacked and scored another point, the score came to 19-10, Gray served and went to the net, and Canada continued to chase the score 22-19, Li Yingying stood up and scored a strong attack, Li Yingying scored on the serve, and pulled back 25-20, this game won on offense, won the opponent by 5 points, and the serve was also good.
At the beginning of the third game, it was 0-3, Wu Mengjie counterattacked and scored, Yuan Xinyue blocked the net and scored 5-4 to overtake, Gong Xiangyu counterattacked and scored another point, Yuan Xinyue also came to block the net, Gong Xiangyu small slash, Gray went out of bounds after the last three, the Chinese women's volleyball team led 10-6, and there was a card wheel behind, and was overtaken by Canada 11-10, two for three Ding Xia and Zheng Yixin, Canada's chicken blood defense, Zheng Yixin hit the attack and stopped losing points.
Li Yingying scored with a drop ball, Li Yingying was in the last three, chasing 17-17, Van Rijk was powerful again, hitting in a row, Canada led again 20-17, Zhang Changning served as a substitute, Diao Linyu blocked the net and scored, chasing 22-22 draw, but unfortunately at the end of the game, Canada won 25-23 strongly, their serve directly scored 4 points in this game, and China did not score.
In the fourth game, the Chinese women's volleyball team Li Yingying + Zhang Changning started, Li Yingying was in the back three, Wang Yuanyuan scored on the serve and took a 4-1 lead, Zhang Changningping pulled away, Van Rijk really couldn't stop it, and was chased to 5-5, Li Yingying was in the back three, adjusted the strong attack, Gong Xiangyu hit in a straight line, Gray made a mistake, the Chinese women's volleyball team led again 11-9, Gong Xiangyu scored with a probe, Li Yingying hit a 13-9 lead, Wang Yuanyuan served and scored, Van Rijk smashed the ball out of bounds, and Canada's challenge to touch the net failed.
The Chinese women's volleyball team 17-12, Gong Xiangyu handled the ball and scored, Li Yingying scored with three hanging balls, 19-14 lead, Canada once again frantically chased the score 20-20, and 25-22 reversed the game, and was reversed again, the Chinese women's volleyball team had a lot of problems in the second half of the game, and was not able to withstand it, Canada served 13 points, indicating that the Chinese women's volleyball team had serious problems with a pass.
In Brazil, Brazil defeated the United States 3-1 (25-22/25-16/18-25/25-19) to make it three wins in a row, while the United States suffered two defeats in a row. Brazil scored 7.17 points and continued to rank second in the world. The United States dropped to fourth, overtaken by Serbia. Gabi had 24 points, Cristina 13, Rosamaria 11 and Larsson 17.