On May 18, Beijing time, the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League continued, and with the end of multiple groups of matches, the latest world ranking of the women's volleyball team has also undergone great changes. Due to the loss of the American women's volleyball team to the Brazilian women's volleyball team, the American women's volleyball team suffered two consecutive defeats and fell to fourth, the Chinese women's volleyball team fell from fifth to seventh after losing to the Canadian women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team is currently only 5 points ahead of the eighth-place Japanese women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Japanese women's volleyball team The battle for the first place in Asia has entered the white-hot stage, and the latest world rankings of the women's volleyball team are as follows:
1. Turkish women's volleyball team, 390 points (advance to the Olympic Games)
2. Brazilian women's volleyball team, 363 points (promotion)
3. Serbian women's volleyball team, 356 points (promoted)
4. U.S. women's volleyball team, 338 points (promotion)
5. Polish women's volleyball team, 330 points (promotion)
6. Italian women's volleyball team, 328 points (to be determined)
7. Chinese women's volleyball team, 317 points (TBD)
8. Japanese women's volleyball team, 312 points (to be determined)
9. Dominican women's volleyball team, 292 points (promoted)
10. Dutch women's volleyball team, 288 points (to be determined)
11. Canadian women's volleyball team, 286 points (to be determined)
12. German women's volleyball team, 233 points (TBD)
Eight teams, including the host France women's volleyball team and Turkey, Brazil, the United States, Serbia, Poland, Dominica and Kenya, the No. 1 women's volleyball team in Africa, have already locked their tickets to the Paris Olympics. The Chinese women's volleyball team needs to compete with 6 teams, including the Italian women's volleyball team, the Japanese women's volleyball team, the Netherlands, Canada, and Germany, for 4 tickets to the Paris Olympics.
Today's schedule of the 2024 Women's Volleyball World League is as follows:
19:00 Poland vs Netherlands
22:00 France vs Bulgaria
01:00 (the next morning) Serbia vs China
04:30 South Korea vs Dominican Republic
08:00 Thailand vs Canada
There are several sets of key matchups in today's schedule, starting with the ranking battle between the Dutch women's volleyball team and the Canadian women's volleyball team. The Dutch women's volleyball team is currently only 2 points ahead of the Canadian women's volleyball team, if the Dutch women's volleyball team loses to the Polish women's volleyball team, and the Canadian women's volleyball team defeats the Thai women's volleyball team, then the Canadian women's volleyball team can surpass the Dutch women's volleyball team and rise to the top ten.
The matchup between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Serbian women's volleyball team is the biggest attraction, the Serbian women's volleyball team is strong, and their world ranking has surpassed the United States women's volleyball team to rise to third. Because the Serbian women's volleyball team has locked the qualification for the Paris Olympics, they did not send the strongest lineup, in this World Women's Volleyball League Serbian women's volleyball team 1-1, lost 1-3 to the Dominican women's volleyball team in the first game, and swept the Thai women's volleyball team 3-0 in the second game. The Chinese women's volleyball team lost 2-1, the first game was 3-0 clean sheet of the South Korean women's volleyball team, and the second game defeated the American women's volleyball team 3-1, but the third game lost 1-3 to the Canadian women's volleyball team, and the Chinese women's volleyball team's world ranking points were deducted 11.01 points, and also fell from fifth to seventh in the world. The situation of the Chinese women's volleyball team qualifying for the Olympic Games has also become blurred, so the match between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Serbian women's volleyball team is very important. The results of the matches between the two teams will be different, and the points will also vary greatly.
1. China 3-0 Serbia, China +10.92 points
2. China 3-1 Serbia, China +8.42 points
3. China 3-2 Serbia, China +5.92 points
4. China 2-3 Serbia, China -4.08 points
5. China 1-3 Serbia, China -6.58 points
6. China 0-3 Serbia, China -9.08 points
It is hoped that the Chinese women's volleyball team can defeat the Serbian women's volleyball team and strive to get more points to stabilize and improve the ranking.