The new World Women's Volleyball League has started, and many teams from the Chinese women's volleyball team, the Japanese women's volleyball team, the German women's volleyball team, the Italian women's volleyball team, the Canadian women's volleyball team, and the Dutch women's volleyball team are competing for the remaining five tickets to the Paris Olympics.
As the No. 1 Chinese women's volleyball team in Asia, after defeating the South Korean women's volleyball team and the American women's volleyball team in the opening game, they faced the Canadian women's volleyball team that was inferior to themselves in the third game, and broke out a big upset, and finally lost 1-3, suffering the first defeat at the same time, and the standings fell to fourth.
In this game, the Chinese women's volleyball team was obviously not in the state, losing 22-25 in the first game, and 25-20 in the second game, but in the third and fourth games, they were overtaken by the Canadian women's volleyball team when the score was leading, especially in the fourth game, when the two sides were tied 22, at the last moment, the Chinese women's volleyball team faced the serve twice in a row to send the opponent to score, and finally lost 22-25.
According to the technical statistics after the game, Li Yingying scored 24 points in 3 of 49 deductions and 21 shots, Gong Xiangyu scored 15 points, and Wu Mengjie scored 12 points, and the overall performance was mediocre. In addition, the total points of the Chinese women's volleyball team were deducted by 11.01 points, and the real-time ranking fell to 7th in the world, only less than 6 points ahead of the Japanese women's volleyball team behind them, and the first position in Asia is facing insecurity.
Compared with the unstable performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team, the Japanese women's volleyball team is making great progress.
defeated the world's No. 1 Turkish women's volleyball team 3-2 in the first game, swept the Bulgarian women's volleyball team 3-0 in the second game, and now faced the European powerhouse German women's volleyball team in the third game.
In addition, the Japanese women's volleyball team has a total of 323.20 points, returning to the 8th place in the world in the real-time ranking, and only 5.50 points behind the Chinese women's volleyball team, seeing the hope of winning the first place in Asia.
According to the rules, since no team from the Asian region qualified for the tournament in September last year, the top team in Asia will be able to qualify for the Olympics at that time.
Therefore, as long as the Japanese women's volleyball team overtakes the Chinese women's volleyball team and rises to the first place in Asia, it can qualify for the Paris Olympics.