On May 19, Beijing time, the Chinese women's volleyball team ushered in the last game of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League in Brazil, the Chinese women's volleyball team played against the Serbian women's volleyball team. As a first-class team, the Serbian women's volleyball team is currently ranked fourth in the world with 344 points, and the Serbian women's volleyball team has locked the ticket to the Paris Olympics. The Serbian women's volleyball team won 1 and lost 1 in the first two games, losing 1-3 to the Dominican women's volleyball team and 3-0 to the Thai women's volleyball team.
The Chinese women's volleyball team has 2 wins and 1 loss in the previous three games, namely 3-0 South Korean women's volleyball team, 3-1 American women's volleyball team, and 1-3 loss to Canadian women's volleyball team, and the Chinese women's volleyball team is currently seventh in the world with 328.69 points. The Japanese women's volleyball team, which has won three consecutive victories, rose to eighth, and the difference between the Japanese women's volleyball team and the Chinese women's volleyball team with 323.20 points is only 5.49 points. The Italian women's volleyball team ranks sixth in the world with 333.13 points, and the score difference between the Chinese women's volleyball team is 4.61 points. China, Japan and Italy are currently competing for the sixth place in the world. At present, eight teams, including the host France, have locked in the qualification for the Paris Olympics, and the Chinese women's volleyball team needs to compete with the Italian women's volleyball team, the Japanese women's volleyball team, the Netherlands women's volleyball team, the Canadian women's volleyball team, and the German women's volleyball team for the last four places in the Paris Olympics. The final qualification quota for the Olympic Games will be determined based on the standings at the end of the Women's Volleyball World League.
Chinese women's volleyball team 3-1 Serbian women's volleyball team
In this game, Cai Bin actively changed the formation, Wang Yunrui replaced Wu Mengjie to start, and the starting lineup of the Chinese women's volleyball team was Li Yingying, Wang Yunrui, Wang Yuanyuan, Yuan Xinyue, Gong Xiangyu, Diao Linyu, Wang Mengjie.
In the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team started slowly, falling behind 1-6 at the beginning, Yuan Xinyue stood up and scored continuously to narrow the difference, the score once chased to 9-10, the Serbian women's volleyball team scored three points in a row to open the score, Cai Bin called a timeout, and the Chinese women's volleyball team played more actively and quickly approached the score, after which the two sides fell into a tug-of-war, the score once came to 19 draws, Serbia grasped the key points better, and the Chinese women's volleyball team lost the first game 21-25.
In the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team picked up, and played 6-2 at the beginning to seize the opportunity, the Chinese women's volleyball team played steadily and the score soon came to 10-4, Serbia chased only 3 points many times, but at the critical moment, the Serbian women's volleyball team made mistakes again and again, the Chinese women's volleyball team firmly controlled the situation on the court, 25-15 pulled back a game, the Chinese women's volleyball team played out with the cooperation in this game, and there were as many as 5 direct points on serve.
In the third game, the Chinese women's volleyball team led 3-1 at the beginning, the Chinese women's volleyball team had a high rate of passing, and the score soon came to 14-8.
In the fourth game, the Chinese women's volleyball team became more and more courageous, completely suppressed the Serbian women's volleyball team at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and took a big lead at the beginning. In the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the strong rival Serbian women's volleyball team 3-1.
After this battle, the world points of the Chinese women's volleyball team increased by 8.42 points, and the total points became 337.11 points, temporarily surpassing the Italian women's volleyball team and returning to sixth in the world ranking. In addition, the Chinese women's volleyball team has a total score of 13.91 points over the Japanese women's volleyball team and continues to hold the first place in Asia. So far, the Chinese women's volleyball team has all ended its matches in the Brazilian station of the World Women's Volleyball League, and the Chinese women's volleyball team has achieved a record of three wins and one loss.
The Chinese women's volleyball team will take a short break to adjust, and then enter the next stage of the World Women's Volleyball League, the next stop will be held in Macau, China at the end of May and early June, the Chinese women's volleyball team will play against the Netherlands, Japan, Thailand, Italy, these four teams are competing for Olympic tickets, especially Japan and Italy are the main competitors of the Chinese women's volleyball team, but Zhu Ting will return to the team in Macau, looking forward to the Chinese women's volleyball team fighting in the local area will have a good performance.