On July 25, the Tokyo Olympic women's volleyball competition was fully launched, and the opening match was launched between the Russian Olympic team and Italy.
The Russian (Russian Olympic team) women's volleyball team played most of its strength in the World League a month ago, and the main players in the Olympic lineup have not changed much. In this campaign, the famous players Goncharova and Statseva led the start, Fedorovskeva and Volonkova played the main attack, the secondary attack position was Koroleva and Fetisova, and the freeman Malova.
For the Russian-Austrian women's volleyball team, the biggest attraction is the performance of young player Fedorovskeva, a 17-year-old rising star who became famous in the World League and showed a strong scoring ability. This time in the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Russian women's volleyball team has high hopes for her.
The Italian women's volleyball team as a strong army in the Tokyo cycle, the goal of the Blue Army to point the podium is self-evident, and Egnu said as early as 2018 that he hoped to lead the team to win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games. In this campaign, the captain Serra, who injured his foot in the previous warm-up match, did not appear, the main attack was still posed by Poseidti Jr. partner Petrini, in the secondary attack position, Mazanti sent Farr to start, and the opposite angle with him was Danesi, and the receiver, second pass and free man were familiar to fans respectively Egnu, Marinov and De Genaro.
For Italy, which has a distinct offensive system, the first point of the Olympic arena naturally has to be handed over to the star Egnu to "smash". However, the Russian-Austrian women's volleyball team was obviously prepared, and the deputy attacker Fetisova seized the opportunity and came up to block Egnu's strong attack and scored the first point of the game. The angry Italians then organized a strong attack for Egnu, but perhaps affected by the blockage of the opening, this time Egnu attacked out of bounds, and Italy's Olympic start did not seem to be smooth.
However, the Blues quickly entered the game, and with the main attackers Poseidti Jr. and Pitterini scoring consecutive points, Italy chased the score to 11 draws. Since then, the score of the two teams has alternately risen to 18 draws, Goncharova attacked the net, Italy blocked the net, the set point, the Russian and Austrian teams attacked out of bounds, and the Italian women's volleyball team took the lead 25-23.
Italy, which was getting better, took a 4-0 lead at the beginning of the second innings, and although the Russian-Austrian women's volleyball team struggled to catch up to 6 draws, they were always in a passive position in the game. Fedorovskeva's pass began to fluctuate, and the attack was repeatedly blocked, and for the 17-year-old, such setbacks were an indispensable tuition fee for the growth process. In the second half of the game, Russia and Austria fell behind their opponents 14-20, and seeing that it was difficult to reverse the disadvantage, head coach Bussato had no choice but to replace Goncharova. In the end, Marinov won the set point with a second shot, and Italy led 2-0.
Russia and Austria tried to regroup in the third set, but the opponent Italy was more efficient in attack, and the serve and netting links were also better than the opponent, which made Russia's attack seriously blocked, trailing 9-15. Italy continued to extend the lead, Oro served directly to score, Poseidi Jr. stopped Goncharova, Egnanu finished the game with a hammer, and Italy won the opening with a clean sheet, with the three sets 25-23, 25-19, 25-14.
In terms of technical statistics, Egnu scored a game-high 18 points with 14 dunks and 1 block, followed by Poseidti Jr. with 12 points. Only One of the Russian Olympic teams, Fedorovskeva, scored in double figures, scoring a total of 10 points in three innings. Although Italy scored as many as 21 points by mistake in this campaign, they greatly suppressed their opponents in the interception link, which is also the key to Italy's last laugh.
Interestingly, Brazil's female ranking general Sheila said on the social platform after the game that she believes that the Italian-Russian opener lacks vitality and is "not energetic", which has been recognized by many netizens.
In the first round of the group stage, except for the battle between Middle-Earth, the other four games did not have much suspense, the American women's volleyball team swept argentina in three sets, and the youngster Thompson won the scoring championship with 20 points.
The Serbian women's volleyball team beat The Dominican Republic 25-18, 25-12, 25-20 lasted only 75 minutes, with the number one star Boskovic scoring 28 points, and dominica scoring the most points with the 8 points of deputy attacker J. Martinez.
It is worth mentioning that Boskovic scored 24 points on offense, and the rest of Serbia's players scored only 18 points in total.
The host Japan women's volleyball team is against Kenya, who easily won the first two sets, and when they led 10-8 in the third set, Koga Sarina left the field with an accidental injury when the net landed.
Perhaps affected by the injury of teammates, the Japanese women's volleyball team played a little inattentive in the following time, and Kenya came later to take a 23-21 lead. Forced to the near round point, the Japanese women's volleyball team finally adjusted back to the state, scored 4 consecutive points to reverse and win the third set, thus getting the opening red at 3-0.
However, it is obvious that the Japanese women's volleyball team is more concerned about Koga Sarina's injury, and after the game, head coach Nakata Kumi looks very sad, and the players did not come to the sidelines for the first time to take a group photo to celebrate. At present, the Japan Volleyball Association has not yet announced Koga's injury and illness.
The last match of the first round of the women's volleyball team was staged between Brazil and South Korea, and the Brazilian women's volleyball team fell three straight sets to pick down the opponent, and the three sets were 25-10, 25-22 and 25-19.