In the early morning of May 18, Beijing time, the new World Women's Volleyball League Brazil played a match between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Canadian women's volleyball team. In the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to Canada 1-3, suffered its first defeat, and at the same time missed the chance to return to the first place in the standings, plus was deducted 11.01 points, and the world ranking fell to seventh, only less than 6 points ahead of the Japanese women's volleyball team behind them, facing the first place in Asia.
At present, 7 teams have qualified for the Paris Olympics in advance, and there are still 5 places that will be generated through the rankings of the three sub-tournaments of the World Women's Volleyball League. In the Olympic preliminaries last year, the Chinese women's volleyball team failed to advance in advance, so this year's World Women's Volleyball League is very critical for the team.
According to the schedule, the first stop of the Chinese women's volleyball team went to Brazil to play, and defeated the South Korean women's volleyball team and the United States women's volleyball team in the first two rounds, leaving behind the Japanese women's volleyball team and the Thai women's volleyball team, and sitting in the first place in Asia.
In this round, the Chinese women's volleyball team faced the North American powerhouse Canadian women's volleyball team. It is worth mentioning that the Canadian women's volleyball team has also not yet qualified for the Paris Olympics.
In the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team entered the game slowly, and shouted a timeout after falling behind 4-7 at the beginning, and then chased it to 14 draws, due to continuous mistakes, the Chinese women's volleyball team was once again opened up in the next game, and the Canadian women's volleyball team won 25-22.
Entering the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team adjusted its state in time, stopping the Canadian women's volleyball team with a 7-3 lead at the beginning, and then maintained a large lead, Li Yingying, Wu Mengjie, and Gong Xiangyu all played well, and finally won 25-20 to equalize the total score.
In the crucial third game, the Chinese women's volleyball team continued to make a dream start, once leading 10-6, and then was chased by the Canadian women's volleyball team in a row, and the two sides reached 22 draws. In terms of key points, the Chinese women's volleyball team did not play well, and finally lost another game 23-25 and fell into a desperate situation.
In the fourth game, the Chinese women's volleyball team dropped the chain at the last moment, first leading 19-14 and being overtaken, and then being directly scored by Canada on 2 consecutive serves, and finally lost 22-25, losing 1-3 in total.
After losing, the Chinese women's volleyball team was deducted 11.01 points, and the total points became 328.70 points, and the world ranking was surpassed by the Italian women's volleyball team and fell to seventh.
The Japanese women's volleyball team, which is also an Asian team, defeated the Turkish women's volleyball team, Bulgarian women's volleyball team, and German women's volleyball team in a row, winning three consecutive victories in the opening game, showing a good upward momentum, with a total score of 323.20 points, continuing to rank eighth in the world, and very close to the Chinese women's volleyball team.