World League: Chinese women's volleyball team 0-3 Italy suffered a third defeat and the world ranking was overtaken by Japan and fell to 7th

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2024-06-02 20:51Posted in Beijing Sports Creators

On the evening of June 2, Beijing time, after 6 days of fierce battles, the competition of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League in Macao, China came to an end. In the final game against Italy, where the main player returned, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 0-3 after the increase in the fluctuation of the first pass, and suffered the third defeat of the World League, with the scores of 23-25, 19-25 and 16-25 in the three games. The Chinese team ended the competition in Macau, China with a record of 2 wins and 2 losses, and the results in the first two weeks of the tournament were 5 wins and 3 losses, accumulating 15 points, and the instant world ranking was overtaken by Japan and fell to 7th.

Competition Highlights:

1. Since the 2018 World Women's Volleyball Grand Prix was upgraded to the World League, the Chinese and Italian women's volleyball teams have met 7 times, and the Chinese team has a slight advantage with 4 wins and 3 losses. This defeat is the third consecutive loss to Italy in the World League after the 1/4 finals of the 2022 World League Finals (1-3 loss) and the 2023 World League sub-tournament Hong Kong, China (2-3 loss), and the record against it in this event has also been rewritten to 4 wins and 4 losses.

2. After losing to Italy, the Chinese women's volleyball team had a record of 2 wins and 2 losses in the World League in Macau, China, and a score of 5 wins and 3 losses in the first two weeks of the sub-tournament, accumulating 15 points, ranking 6th instantly. The Italian team has a record of 6 wins and 2 losses in the first two weeks of the tournament, accumulating 19 points, and is in 3rd place immediately.

3. The Chinese women's volleyball team lost 0-3 to Italy, and the world ranking score decreased by 9.3 points to 327.57 points, and was overtaken by the Japanese team (329.62 points) by 2.05 points to fall to 7th. Italy's world ranking increased by 9.3 points to 358.51 points, surpassing the United States (349.76 points) to move up to 4th.

3. China's assistant Yuan Xinyue scored a team-high 12 points. Italy's Egnu scored a game-high 16 points.

Both starters:

Chinese women's volleyball team: main attack Wu Mengjie, Li Yingying, secondary attack Wang Yuanyuan, Yuan Xinyue, Gong Xiangyu, second setter Diao Linyu, free man Wang Mengjie

Italian women's volleyball team: main attack Sheila, C-Posetti, secondary attack Danesi, Rubian, answer Egnu, setter Oro, libero De Gennaro

Match Results:

In the first game, Gong Xiangyu smashed the ball out of bounds, Lubian served straight, and Sheila counterattacked, and Italy exceeded 3-0. Li Yingying stepped on the line after attacking, and China fell behind 2-6. After Wu Mengjie attacked 4-7, Egnu attacked the round, C-Posetti counterattacked, and Italy stretched the score to 9-4. As soon as Li Yingying captured the ball, Gong Xiangyu counterattacked and the hitter went out of bounds, and China chased it to 7-10. Wu Mengjie blocked Egnu's breakthrough to 10-12, and Italy passed the round with Sheila's strong attack. Li Yingying countered and dealt with the ball to wipe out of bounds, and China was close to 13-14.

After Italy passed through Rubian's fast break, the two-for-three team came up to meet Antropova and setter Camby. Camby served to score and Italy led 16-13. Yuan Xinyue hit a fast attack, Li Yingying and Gong Xiangyu counterattacked 4 times, and China won 5 points in a row 18-16. Rubian quickly attacked the round, Antropova counterattacked, Italy chased to 18 draws, and China relied on Li Yingying's strong attack to exceed 20-18. Li Yingying's smash was blocked by Antropova, and Italy drew 20. After 21 draws, Wang Yuanyuan hit a fast attack, and China immediately replaced her serve with Zhu Ting. After the two teams held each other to 23 draws, Wu Mengjie adjusted the attack out of bounds, Danesi quickly counterattacked, and China lost 2 points in a row 23-25 and lost for a while.

In the second game, after the two teams alternated leads to 4 draws, Danesi served to force Gong Xiangyu to fly a pass, and Egnu blocked Li Yingying's back attack, and Italy exceeded 6-4. China is in hot pursuit with the breakthrough of Yuan Xinyue and Li Yingying. Wu Mengjie blocked Egnu's counterattack and avoided being pulled away by the opponent to bite the score to 10-11. After China fought to 11-12, Lubian scored a quick attack and Diao Linyu passed the ball in succession, and Italy stretched the score to 14-11.

Rubian's fast attack frequently pressurized, Wang Yuanyuan blocked the net and touched the net, and China fell behind 13-17. Gong Xiangyu crossed the wheel with his back, Yuan Xinyue and Wu Mengjie fought back, and China, which fell behind 15-19, was close to 18-19. Danesi scored twice on a fast break and serve to extend Italy's lead to 21-18. At the end of the game, China made a series of mistakes in Egnu's jumping and strong round passes, and Li Yingying's offensive errors also increased accordingly, and finally lost 19-25, falling behind 0-2.

At the beginning of the third game, Italy still had a slight advantage and a two-point lead, and China bit to 7-8 through Li Yingying's combination of hanging. Sheila attacked the round, Egnu counterattacked strongly, and Wu Mengjie's adjustment attack was blocked by Sheila, and Italy scored three points in a row to stretch the score to 11-7. China, which fell behind 9-14, sent setter Ding Xia and receiver Zheng Yixin to the second setter. Zheng Yixin was judged to hold the ball with an attack, and Wu Mengjie was caught by C-Posetti with a missed attack, and Italy extended its lead to 16-9.

Wu Mengjie smashed the ball out of bounds to make the team fall behind 9-17, and China adjusted the main attack to replace Zhang Changning. C-Posetti served straight and Sheila counterattacked, and Italy led 21-12 to seal the victory. After China was able to pass the round with Li Yingying's rush, the two for three exchanged for the second setter Diao Linyu and the receiver Gong Xiangyu. After China took advantage of Egnu's mistake to make it 15-23, Gong Xiangyu's handling ball was stopped by Sheila, and Italy led 24-15 to win match point. After Yuan Xinyue pulled back one point with a fast attack, China failed to stop Danesi's fastball and lost 16-25 and lost 0-3 to Italy.

Technical Statistics:

Chinese women's volleyball team: 12 points for Yuan Xinyue, 11 points for Li Yingying, 10 points for Gong Xiangyu, 7 points for Wu Mengjie, 4 points for Wang Yuanyuan, and 1 point for Zheng Yixin as a substitute

Italian women's volleyball team: 16 points from Egnu, 12 points from Lubian, 11 points from Sheila, 7 points from Danesi, 5 points from C-Posetti, 4 points from Antropova, 1 point from Degradi, 1 point from Oro Aoro, 1 point from Camby

Results of other races:

Week 2 of the World League in Macao, China:

France 0-3 load blue (17-25, 10-25, 21-25)

Brazil beat Thailand 3-0 (25-22, 25-14, 25-17)

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