On May 18, Beijing time, the World Women's Volleyball League Brazil ushered in a focus battle, the Chinese women's volleyball team played against the Canadian women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team is currently ranked 5th in the world, and the Canadian women's volleyball team is ranked 11th in the world. At present, the eight teams that have qualified for the Paris Olympics are the host France and Turkey, the United States, Brazil, Serbia, Poland, Dominica, and the African champion Kenya, and the Chinese women's volleyball team needs to compete with Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada, and Germany for the remaining four tickets to the Paris Olympics.
The Chinese women's volleyball team won two consecutive victories in the first two games, 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. The Canadian women's volleyball team lost 1-3 to the Brazilian women's volleyball team in the first game, and defeated the Dominican women's volleyball team 3-0 in the second game. It is worth mentioning that in last year's Olympic qualifying tournament, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 2-3 to the Canadian women's volleyball team and suffered its first defeat. In the previous 6 meetings between the two sides, the Chinese women's volleyball team led 4-2.
Due to the excellent performance of the Japanese women's volleyball team in the World Women's Volleyball League, they have won three consecutive victories, successively defeating the Turkish team, the Bulgarian team and the German team, the Japanese women's volleyball team has surpassed the Chinese women's volleyball team in the World Women's Volleyball League points to rise to the first place, and the Japanese women's volleyball team world ranking points to 323.2 points, only 16.51 points behind the Chinese women's volleyball team. Therefore, the match between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Canadian women's volleyball team is particularly important, if the Chinese women's volleyball team fails, the score gap with the Japanese women's volleyball team may be narrowed to less than 10 points. The battle between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Japanese women's volleyball team for the first place in Asia has entered a white-hot stage.
Chinese women's volleyball team 1-3 Canadian women's volleyball team
The starting list of the Chinese team is as follows, the main attack: Li Yingying, Wu Mengjie; Secondary attack: Wang Yuanyuan, Yuan Xinyue; Answer: Gong Xiangyu; Second setter: Diao Linyu .
In the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team entered the state slightly slowly, falling behind 3-7 at the beginning, Cai Bin guided the choice to pause, and after the pause came back, the Chinese women's volleyball team gradually returned to the right track, and slowly chased the score back, and then the scores of the two sides were tight, and the game fell into a tug-of-war, but the Canadian women's volleyball team Gray and Van Rijk were in a hot state, they scored again and again at critical moments, and the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 22-25 in the first game.
In the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team strengthened the quality of the serve and played more patiently, on the other hand, the Canadian women's volleyball team made more mistakes, and the Chinese women's volleyball team quickly took the lead 14-6, although the Canadian women's volleyball team continued to chase points, but the Chinese women's volleyball team withstood the pressure and pulled back a game 25-20.
In the third game, the Chinese women's volleyball team fell behind 0-3 at the beginning, and then the Chinese women's volleyball team actively adjusted and soon chased the score to a 4-4 draw, the Canadian women's volleyball team made more mistakes, the Chinese women's volleyball team scored consecutive points to take a 10-6 lead, and Canada continued to attack to chase the score to a 10-10 draw, and then the two sides fell into a tug-of-war again, and after entering 22 draws, the Canadian women's volleyball team grasped the key points better, and the Chinese women's volleyball team lost another game 23-25.
In the fourth game, the Chinese women's volleyball team that fell into passivity began to counterattack, but the Canadian women's volleyball team played steadily, and the Chinese women's volleyball team always maintained a slight lead in the first half, and the Canadian women's volleyball team continued to chase points and complete the overtake, and the Chinese women's volleyball team frequently flew and lost 22-25. In the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to the Canadian women's volleyball team 1-3, and the two consecutive wins were ended, and the world ranking points will be deducted 11.01 points, falling to the seventh place in the world with 328.7 points, and the Chinese women's volleyball team is only 5.5 points ahead of the Japanese women's volleyball team in the world points, and the first place in Asia may not be guaranteed.