In the first round of the women's volleyball group stage of the Paris Olympics that ended in the early morning of July 30, Beijing time, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the defending champion United States women's volleyball team 3-2 after five rounds and made a good start. In this game, Li Yingying, the ace of the Chinese women's volleyball team, performed quite well. Be the number one contributor to the team's overthrow of the defending champions.
In this game, the Chinese women's volleyball team sent the main offensive combination of Zhu Ting and Li Yingying, the strongest main offensive partner of the Chinese women's volleyball team did not disappoint, with Zhu Ting's attack and a comprehensive "big sister" sitting in the town, Li Yingying, who unloaded the heavy pressure, became a nightmare for the United States women's volleyball team. In the first 2 games, the two frequently attacked successfully, and the Chinese women's volleyball team easily won 2 games in a row.
But then the situation on the court changed abruptly, and in the 3rd and 4th games, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 2 games in a row because of its poor response to the opponent's change of formation and its own fluctuation of one pass. In the 5th game, the Chinese women's volleyball team also fell behind at the beginning, and when the Chinese women's volleyball team was likely to be reversed by winning 3 games in a row, Li Yingying stepped forward at a critical moment.
After 8 draws, Li Yingying probed and counterattacked to score 3 points in a row, helping the Chinese women's volleyball team to stretch the difference to 11-8, followed by Li Yingying's handling of the ball, allowing the Chinese women's volleyball team to get the match point 14-11. In the end, Zhu Ting made a final decision, and the Chinese women's volleyball team won 15-13 and defeated United States 3-2.
According to the statistics after the game, Li Yingying scored a total of 9 points in 10 deductions and 8 foreign and 1 block in the tiebreaker, with a smash success rate of 80% and a smash efficiency of 70%, and she also became the key to winning the Chinese women's volleyball team's tiebreaker, and in the whole game, Li Yingying scored a game-high 26 points in 51 deductions and 24 blocks.
After the game, many netizens praised Li Yingying: "The United States women's volleyball team is an absolute nightmare!" ": "Dream back to the 2018 women's volleyball team is the World Championships!" ": "United States women's volleyball coach Kirary is going to jump in anger again!" "Good job, Li Yingying, MVP of this game, the Chinese women's volleyball team can't do without you!" ”