The latest standings of the World Women's Volleyball League! The Japanese women's volleyball team has quietly fallen to No. 6, and the Chinese women's volleyball team has temporarily thrown off the points gap! The Dutch women's volleyball team is really hanging in the air – here's a round-up of the highlights of the day:
At 1 a.m. on May 19, the Chinese women's volleyball team played against the Serbian women's volleyball team. Wang Yunrui entered the starting lineup, and in the first game, the three major attackers of the Chinese team collectively did not play the ball, resulting in the team being passive and swallowing the opening black 21-25, after which the Chinese team gradually adjusted and won three games in a row to complete the reversal.
The Chinese team won 3 wins and 1 loss, and the first leg of the event ended, temporarily improving its ranking to the third position in the league! The Japanese team is all the way down! In the world rankings, after the Chinese team scored 8.42 points, the points gap ahead of the Japanese team increased to 13.92 points!
It is worth mentioning that Cai Bin summarized the performance of the Brazilian station after the game, although there were ups and downs in the game process, everyone united as one, worked hard to fight every ball, and showed good morale and spirit. The loss to Canada was a bit of an up-and-down, and everyone was a little restrained and didn't completely let go. Against Serbia, it is to ask everyone to completely release themselves, not to carry the burden of thought, and to really impact.
In the subsequent game, the Italian women's volleyball team faced the world's No. 1 Turkish women's volleyball team, which also won first and then lost, completing a 3-1 reversal. Turkey's single-point attack, although Vargas scored 33 points, the rest of his teammates scored sluggishly, with the highest score of only 7 points, and Karakurt's only 6 points.
In the 8-point game, the Canadian women's volleyball team continued to chase after the victory, defeating the Thai women's volleyball team 3-1, and also ended with 3 wins and 1 loss. In addition to the improvement in the standings, Canada has an advantage in the situation of direct competition with the Dutch women's volleyball team for an Olympic quota! After Canada scored 3.69 points, it left the Dutch women's volleyball team by as many as 8 points. Not to mention that on the same match day, the Netherlands took the lead in the game, losing 0-3 to Poland in advance, and after being deducted points, they were overtaken by Canada, and now Canada has seized the opportunity to extend the lead.
The Japanese women's volleyball team has not played for a day, and the world ranking has dropped from 2nd to 6th. At 22 o'clock in the evening of the 19th, Japan passed Poland, and the pressure to score points was also great.