Zhu Ting's Chinese women's volleyball team was swept by Italy in the last game of the Macao station, and the Hong Kong station will finally decide the Olympic ticket

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2024-06-02 21:37Posted on the official account of Beijing Beiqing Sports News

On June 2, the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League Macao Station staged the final match. The Chinese women's volleyball team faced the elite Italian women's volleyball team, and did not give Zhu Ting, who had just played in the Italian league, more opportunities to play. The Chinese team finally lost 0-3 to their opponents, and the world ranking was overtaken by Japan after the Macau match. After the game, Su Hui Ruoqi, the Chinese women's ranking group who served as a CCTV commentator, believes that from Zhu Ting's performance against Thailand in the last game, she is expected to get more opportunities to play and give full play to her cohesion on the court.

This year's World League in Macao brought together a number of opponents competing with the Chinese women's volleyball team for Olympic qualification. The Italian women's volleyball team has not yet qualified for the Paris Olympics, and this battle is bound to win. In terms of the record of the match, the Chinese women's volleyball team previously suffered 4 consecutive defeats against the Italian women's volleyball team. In the 2023 World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to the Italian team in five games.

The starting lineup of this game was surprisingly not Zhu Ting, who had just played in the Italian Women's Volleyball League. Wu Mengjie's partner Li Yingying served as the main attacking position. In addition, setter Diao Linyu, Gong Xiangyu, secondary attackers Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan and libero Wang Mengjie continued to start. The Italian women's volleyball team sent the main lineup, including the famous player Egnu.

From the first game, the Italian women's volleyball team showed the strength of a good combination of teamwork and individual ability. The Italians were better on serve and on the first attack. Diao Linyu performed well in the setter position, activating the secondary offensive firepower when the main attack was targeted, and chasing the score gap. The offensive and defensive intensity of the Chinese women's volleyball team has increased, which once caused the Italian women's volleyball team to be blocked. Egnu was substituted due to pressure and volatility. At the end of the game, both teams adjusted their lineups. Zhu Ting's appearance on the stage sparked thunderous cheers from the audience at the Macao Coliseum. The Italian women's volleyball team changed to the main setter and the main receiver Egnu. In the final few key points of competition, the Italian women's volleyball team was better and won the first game 25-23.

In the second game, Wu Mengjie continued to start, and the Chinese team failed to make any adjustments against Italy. The Italian women's volleyball team continued to disrupt the Chinese team's one-pass system with excellent individual ability, winning the second game 25-19. In response to the Chinese women's volleyball team's inability to curb the Italian women's volleyball team's ability in terms of teams and individuals, CCTV commentator Hui Ruoqi mentioned that Zhu Ting would ask the players to pay attention to the game on the court in the last match with the Thai women's volleyball team. Hui Ruoqi believes that Zhu Ting can play her unique cohesion on the court. In the third game, Egnu became more and more courageous, and smashed the ball at a high point in front of the net, causing great pressure on the Chinese team. In the middle of the game, Ding Xia, Zheng Yixin and Zhang Changning appeared one after another to enrich their tactics. Italy won the third game 25-16.

The technical statistics after the game show that the Chinese women's volleyball team is lagging behind in attack, defense, serve, mistakes and blocking. Li Yingying was targeted by the opponent and scored only 11 points. Yuan Xinyue scored a team-high 12 points. Wang Yuanyuan failed to put more pressure on her opponent on defense, scoring four points in the game. Gong Xiangyu and Wu Mengjie scored 10 and 7 points, respectively.

The Chinese women's volleyball team in Macao of this World League has achieved the most undesirable result. In this game, the Chinese team won two wins and two losses, not only lost to the Japanese women's volleyball team, but also lost to the Italian women's volleyball team 0-3 in the final game, was deducted 9.3 world ranking points, fell to seventh in the FIVB world rankings, and was overtaken by the Japanese team to become the second ranked team in Asia.

On the other hand, the Chinese women's volleyball team will still be a protracted battle for the Paris Olympic qualifiers, and the results will be announced in Hong Kong on June 11. Starting from the 11th, the Chinese women's volleyball team will face the Bulgarian team, the German team, the current world No. 1 Turkish team and the Polish women's volleyball team, which has been full of momentum in the past two years and is currently ranked third. The Chinese women's volleyball team needs to seize the last time to run in, make good use of the world-class main attack Zhu Ting, solve the current setter and defensive loopholes, and play the final Olympic qualification battle.

Text/Beiqing Sports Chu Peng

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