On May 19, Beijing time, the first leg of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League ushered in the finale, the Chinese women's volleyball team has taken the lead in ending the four games of the World Women's Volleyball League in Brazil, and the Chinese women's volleyball team has achieved 3 wins and 1 loss, including 3-0 sweep of the South Korean women's volleyball team, 3-1 victory over the United States women's volleyball team, 1-3 defeat to the Canadian women's volleyball team, and 3-1 defeat of the Serbian women's volleyball team. The Chinese women's volleyball team temporarily ranked third in the standings after defeating the Serbian women's volleyball team, and the world ranking also rose one place to return to sixth.
The latest world rankings of the women's volleyball team are as follows:
1. Turkish women's volleyball team, 379.34 points (qualified for the Olympics)
2. Brazilian women's volleyball team, 363.19 points (promoted)
3. Polish women's volleyball team, 348.14 points (promoted)
4. Italian women's volleyball team, 343.79 points (to be determined)
5. U.S. women's volleyball team, 343.11 points (promoted)
6. Chinese women's volleyball team, 337.12 points (to be determined)
7. Serbian women's volleyball team, 336.51 points (promoted)
8. Japan female exclusion, 323.20 minutes (waiting)
9. Dominican women's volleyball team, 305.61 points (promoted)
10. Canadian women's volleyball team, 286.92 points (TBD)
11. Dutch women's volleyball team, 282.19 points (to be determined)
12. German women's volleyball team, 227 points (to be determined)
13. Thai women's volleyball team, 213.6 points (to be determined)
Eight teams, including the host France women's volleyball team and Turkey, Brazil, the United States, Serbia, Poland, Dominica and Kenya, the No. 1 women's volleyball team in Africa, have already locked their tickets to the Paris Olympics. The Chinese women's volleyball team, Italy, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, and Thailand seven teams compete for the remaining 4 Olympic tickets. At present, the Chinese women's volleyball team has led the 11th Dutch women's volleyball team by nearly 50 points, and it can be said that as long as the World Women's Volleyball League in Macao and Hong Kong does not fall off the chain and suffers consecutive defeats, the Chinese women's volleyball team is still very sure that it will enter the Paris Olympics. At present, the most suspenseful is the battle between the Japanese women's volleyball team and the Chinese women's volleyball team for the first place in Asia.
The final round of the first leg of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League
May 19th
19:00 Germany vs Netherlands
21:00 Brazil vs Serbia
22:00 Poland VS Japan
May 20th
1:00 United States vs Dominican Republic
1:00 France vs Turkey
4:30 Thailand vs South Korea
The biggest highlight of the closing game is the Japanese women's volleyball team against the Polish women's volleyball team, the Japanese women's volleyball team played well in the World Women's Volleyball League, they won three consecutive victories with their small and fast style of play and tenacious defense, and overturned the world's No. 1 Turkish women's volleyball team 3-2 in the first game, and swept the Bulgarian women's volleyball team and the German women's volleyball team in a row, and the Japanese women's volleyball team is currently ranked eighth in the world, 14 points behind the Chinese women's volleyball team.
The Polish women's volleyball team has shown strong strength, they have swept Italy, France and the Netherlands in the World Women's Volleyball League, and the Polish women's volleyball team, which has not lost a game, is temporarily ranked first in the standings, and the world ranking of the Polish women's volleyball team has also risen to third.
Hayu 3-0 Japan +8.59'
Hayu 3-1 Japan +6.09'
Hayu 3-2 Japan +3.59'
Japan 3-0 Poland +11.41 points
Japan 3-1 Haken +8.91'
Japan 3-2 Wave +6.41'
If the Japanese women's volleyball team defeats the Polish women's volleyball team, the points will continue to close to the Chinese women's volleyball team; If the Polish women's volleyball team wins, it will continue to consolidate the ranking of third in the world.
In addition, the Dutch women's volleyball team has been overtaken by the Canadian women's volleyball team, and if the Dutch women's volleyball team wins tonight, it may be able to return to the tenth place in the world; The Brazilian women's volleyball team at home will continue to approach the world number one if it wins; The U.S. women's volleyball team, which has suffered two consecutive defeats, has slipped to fifth in the world rankings, and they urgently need a victory to stop the bleeding; The Thai women's volleyball team and the South Korean women's volleyball team are hard to find a win in the World Women's Volleyball League, and they will fight for the team's first victory.