In the early morning of May 19, Beijing time, the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League Brazil continued, and a key match was played by the Chinese women's volleyball team against the Selvie women's volleyball team. When the Chinese women's volleyball team lost the first game, it played better and better, and did not let the Serbian women's volleyball team score more than 20 points in three consecutive games, and finally achieved a reversal of 3-1 and continued to hold the first position in Asia.
Due to the lack of a direct access to the Paris Olympics in advance last year, the Chinese women's volleyball team is facing a lot of pressure, and now it needs to compete with the Japanese women's volleyball team, the Italian women's volleyball team, the Canadian women's volleyball team, the German women's volleyball team, the Thai women's volleyball team and other teams.
In the first three games, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the South Korean women's volleyball team and the United States women's volleyball team in a row, and then lost to the Canadian women's volleyball team, suffering its first defeat, causing the world ranking to fall to seventh, and at the same time, the advantage over the Japanese women's volleyball team was narrowed to only 5.5 points, and the first position in Asia was not guaranteed.
In the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team was not in good shape, and was given a 5-1 dream start by Serbia, and then relied on effective blocking to continuously narrow the score difference to 9-10, and then chased it to 16-17, and then to 19-20. In the face of key points, the Chinese women's volleyball team continued to do poorly, especially in terms of blocking the net, the rhythm was not very good, and with Li Yingying's strong attack was stopped, she lost a game 21-25.
Entering the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team relied on the advantages of serving and blocking the net, and made a good start of 9-3, in the face of the Serbian women's volleyball team's chasing points, the rhythm of the Chinese women's volleyball team was not disrupted, and the difference between the two sides was basically maintained at 4 to 5 points, with the Serbian women's volleyball team making a continuous pass error, the Chinese women's volleyball team easily won 25-15.
In the third game, the Chinese women's volleyball team basically continued the plot of the second game and won again 25-18. In the fourth game, the Chinese women's volleyball team faced the counterattack of the Serbian women's volleyball team, relying on serving and blocking the net to form a continuous suppression, and finally won 25-18, with a total score of 3-1 to achieve a reversal.
This victory allowed the Chinese women's volleyball team to score 8.42 points, and the total points became 337.11 points, while leaving the Japanese women's volleyball team with 13.91 points, at least after the end of the first week of the competition, to maintain the first ranking in Asia.
Attached is the list of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Brazil:
Main attack: Li Yingying, Zhang Changning, Wang Yunrui, Wu Mengjie
Secondary attack: Wang Yuanyuan, Gao Yi, Yuan Xinyue (C)
Answer: Gong Xiangyu, Zheng Yixin
Second setter: Diao Linyu, Ding Xia, Xu Xiaoting
Free people: Wang Mengjie, Ni Feifei