After defeating the Serbian team 3:1, the Chinese women's volleyball team ended the first week of this year's World Women's Volleyball League. At present, the world ranking score has reached 337.12 points, an increase of 7.47 points compared with before the opening of this league, and it is temporarily ranked 6th in the world rankings, and among several major competitors, only the Italian team is still in a relatively advantageous position.
In the first four games of the league, the Chinese women's volleyball team first defeated the weak South Korean team 3:0, then gnawed off the hard bones of the United States team 3:1, lost 1:3 in the third game against Canada, one of the main competitors for the Olympic quota, and defeated Serbia 3:1 in the fourth game. In the 4 games, the most regrettable thing was the battle with Canada, the Chinese team collapsed at the critical moment, and was reversed by the opponent in the middle of the fourth game when it led by more than one point, and lost 1:3. This defeat caused the Chinese team to lose 11.01 points in the world ranking, and was once chased by the main opponent Japan to only 5.49 points, and the situation is not optimistic.
Fortunately, in the first weekend round of the game, the Serbian team with an incomplete lineup was encountered, and the 3:1 victory in this game allowed the Chinese women's volleyball team to earn 8.42 points and return to the 6th place in the league. The next second week of competition is likely to determine whether the Chinese women's volleyball team can successfully catch the Paris Olympics shuttle.
In the second week of competition, the Chinese team will face the Netherlands, Japan, Thailand and Italy, and the other three teams except Thailand are all opponents competing with the Chinese team for the remaining four Olympic quotas. Although the last round of the first week of the Dutch, Japanese and Canadian teams has not yet been played, it is certain that the Chinese team is still ahead of these three opponents after all the games in the first week, which means that if the Chinese team can win three games in a row in China, Italy, China and Japan, and China and the Netherlands, and then easily win the significantly inferior Thai team, it is more likely to lock a place in the Paris Olympics in the second week.
In the four matches in the second week, the battle between China and Japan is the top priority, because according to the Olympic quota allocation rules, if the Japanese team, which is also an Asian team, wins, it can allow the Chinese team to have more initiative in the rest of the schedule, and once the ranking is not dominant, it can also be the highest-ranked Asian team to enter the Paris Olympics first.
From the Moscow Olympics in 1980 to the Tokyo Olympics held three years ago, and the 11 Olympic Games held in the past 40 years, the Chinese team has successfully won the Olympic quota every time, and is the most Olympic team of China's three major teams. Nowadays, the Chinese women's volleyball team has encountered a lot of challenges in the journey of hitting the Olympic ticket for the 12th time, and I believe that difficulties will not stump this excellent team with a glorious tradition, and the women's volleyball team will definitely practice stronger and stronger in the tempering of the world league, and go further and further.