In the first week of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team will face the Serbian women's volleyball team.
The Chinese women's volleyball team has played three rounds of matches and has achieved a record of two wins and one loss. In the third game, the Chinese women's volleyball team unexpectedly lost 1-3 to the Canadian women's volleyball team, deducting 11.01 points, and the world ranking fell from fifth to seventh. Cai Bin's ability to guide has been questioned again.
The Chinese women's volleyball team has not yet qualified for the Paris Olympics. The Chinese team needs to achieve good results in the World Women's Volleyball League and reach a high world ranking in order to qualify for the Paris Olympics. The Chinese women's volleyball team needs to seize every opportunity to win points.
The Serbian women's volleyball team also only played two games, losing 1-3 to the Dominican women's volleyball team and winning 3-0 against Thailand. The Serbian women's volleyball team achieved good results in last year's Olympic Championships and has already qualified for the Paris Olympics ahead of schedule.
The Chinese women's volleyball team sent Li Yingying, Wang Yunrui, Wang Yuanyuan, Yuan Xinyue, Gong Xiangyu, Diao Linyu, and Wang Mengjie to start. Cai Bin adjusted the starting lineup, and Wang Yunrui replaced the teenager Wu Mengjie to start.
The Serbian women's volleyball team sent the starters of Lozo, Milenkovic, Osmajic, Kurtajic, Bujerika, Mirkovic, and Jegdić.
Many of the main players of the Serbian women's volleyball team did not come. This can only be counted as their second team.
In the first game, the Serbian women's volleyball team made a 4:0 start. Cai Bin hurriedly called a timeout. The players were too nervous, carrying a heavy burden, and they couldn't perform at all.
Continuing the game, the Chinese women's volleyball team scored offensively. However, the Serbian team immediately scored 2 points in a row and led the Chinese team 6:1. Yuan Xinyue stood up in time and scored 2 points with one deduction and one block. The Chinese women's volleyball team scored 3 points in a row to narrow the difference. Yuan Xinyue yelled to boost the morale of the team.
Serbian player Lozo smashed the ball out of bounds, and the Chinese team chased the score to 9:10 and only fell behind by one point. Luo Zuo immediately smashed the ball and scored, and Wang Yunrui smashed the ball and was blocked. The Serbian women's volleyball team scored 3 points in a row and led the Chinese team 13:9, with a difference of 4 points. Cai Bin had no choice but to call a timeout again.
Wang Yuanyuan smashed the ball and scored, and the Chinese team finally stopped the round. Li Yingying was stopped by the No. 2 smash ball. The Chinese team played too passively. Li Yingying scored with a big slash, and the score came to 14:16. The Chinese team is only 2 points behind. Serbia also called a timeout.
The Serbian team smashed the ball and did not cross the net, and the Chinese team chased the score to 17:18, only 1 point behind. Wang Yuanyuan sent a rolling tennis ball to score, and the Chinese team chased the score to 19 draws. Unexpectedly, the Serbian team scored 2 points in a row and took the lead again. The Chinese team had no chance to take a timeout.
The Chinese team played too passively and was tired of chasing points. Li Yingying smashed the ball and was blocked, and the Serbian women's volleyball team won the first game 25:21.
In the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team mainly lost 4 points in a row at the beginning. Later, the Chinese team has been tired of chasing points, and finally tied it, and was immediately distanced by the opponent.
In the first game, the Serbian women's volleyball team scored 18 points, 5 points more than the Chinese team.
Several members of the Chinese team are in a slump as a whole. Li Yingying and Wang Yuanyuan each scored 4 points, Yuan Xinyue 3 points, and Gong Xiangyu 2 points. Wang Yunrui made 2 of 11 deductions and three turnovers, and the efficiency was -26%.
The players are still under too much pressure and playing too restrained.