The group stage of the 2024 U20 Men's Volleyball Asian Championship came to an end in Surabaya, Indonesia, and the quarterfinals were announced. After the Chinese men's volleyball team swept Qatar 3-0, they defeated Chinese Taipei 3-1 in the final round of the group stage, thus locking up the second place in the group with three games, two wins and one loss, thus getting a ticket to the quarterfinals.
In the first round of the group stage, the Chinese team was swept 0-3 by the Iran men's volleyball team and missed the opening goal, and in the second game against Qatar, the Chinese team won 3-0 (25-10, 25-13, 25-14), Zhang Zhiqiang and Gao Yuning both scored 11 points, Zeng Yangjie scored 9 points, and Steyer and Ke Xingyu scored 7 points each. If the Chinese team wants to advance to the quarterfinals, the only way to win the final round match with Chinese Taipei is to win. In the battle for the Straits Derby with Chinese Taipei, the Chinese men's volleyball team started as follows:
Main attack: Zeng Yangjie, Zhang Zhiqiang
Secondary attack: Gao Yuning, Styler
Answer: Ke Xingyu
Second setter: Ye Shoujun
Free man: Wang Yanze
In the first game, the Chinese team entered the state slowly, called a timeout when the opening game was 6-9 behind, and the state rebounded significantly after restarting, and the Chinese Taipei team called a timeout for the second time when it was 21-24 behind, and the Chinese team was not affected to score another point, so as to win the first place 25-21.
In the second game, the Chinese team was still slow to heat up, and was 2-6 behind by Chinese Taipei, although the national youth chased the score to 15-17 in the middle game, but then the more chaotic and lost the game 20-25.
In the third game, the Chinese team felt good after readjustment, leading 5-2 at the beginning, and opened the score difference with 19-13 in the middle and back games, and the Chinese Taipei team was hopeless to chase the score, and the national youth went to the next city 25-19.
In the fourth game, the Chinese team continued the good feeling of the third game, 8-5, 14-12, 19-15 has been overwhelming the opponent, and there is no suspense in this game, and the national youth 25-21 locked the victory, thus advancing to the quarterfinals with the second place in the group.
In this campaign, the Chinese team scored 3 double-doubles, Ke Xingyu scored 13 points in 18 deductions and 13 shots, Gao Yuning also scored 13 points in 9 deductions, 3 blocks and 1 shot, Steyr scored 11 points in 15 deductions and 11 points, Wu Haoze also contributed 11 points in 19 deductions and 10 blocks in 1 block, Zeng Yangjie scored 8 points in 7 deductions and 1 shot, Zhang Zhiqiang scored 7 points in 6 deductions and 1 block, Ye Shoujun scored 3 points, and Yao Qian scored 1 point.
The group stage of the U20 Men's Volleyball Asian Championship is over, and the quarterfinals are released, as follows:
Group E: Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia
Group F: Iran, China, Korea, Kazakhstan
The schedule for the semi-finals of Group F is as follows (Beijing time):
July 27, 12:00, Iran vs Kazakhstan
July 27, 14:30, China VS Korea
July 28, 12:00, China vs Kazakhstan
July 28, 14:30, Iran vs Korea
According to the rules of the tournament, the Chinese men's volleyball team can only advance to the semi-finals if they win the top two in Group F, and because they lost to Iran before, they must win against Korea and Kazakhstan, and only get the top four tickets to get a ticket to the 2025 U21 World Championship. In view of the strength of the Chinese U20 men's volleyball team is higher than that of the opponent, there is still a lot of hope for advancing to the semifinals and getting a ticket to the World Youth Championships, but their own mistakes must be controlled, and the serve must impact the opponent and not make low-level mistakes.