On April 22, the final of the 9-12 places of the women's volleyball team of the National Games ended in Qinhuangdao, and the ranking of each team was determined, and the Fujian women's volleyball team later ranked 9th.
After the end of the first stage of the A and B groups, the top eight who qualified for the women's volleyball competition of the National Games were all released. Of the six teams that missed the tournament, the other five teams, with the exception of Macau, were not finished because only the top 12 teams in the National Games had a place and points, so they also needed a new round of competition for the final place.
On April 14, just the day after the end of the first stage of the preliminary round, the Beijing, Yunnan and Fujian teams from Weifang Rush arrived in Qinhuangdao, where they immediately conducted nucleic acid testing and serum antibody testing, and isolated them in the room. The Sichuan team and the Hebei team were originally in the Qinhuangdao division, which exempted them from this boat and car labor.
Although the teams have faced each other in the first stage of the preliminaries, the previous record of the match does not carry into the ninth to twelfth place qualifying. Five teams play a single round robin, with pairs of pairs each day, with one team having a bye. Among the five teams, Yunnan and Hebei teams are relatively weak, and the three teams of Beijing, Fujian and Sichuan maintain a complete victory over these two teams, and the direct competition between the three teams determines who can get a better ranking in the end.
The match began with the fiercest match, with Beijing taking on Sichuan on April 18, with the first four sets of the two sides playing 2-2, the decider Beijing 15-10, and 3-2 ushering in the opening. On the 19th, the match between Sichuan and Fujian also hit the decider, Fujian missed two match points, and finally Sichuan won this key set 20-18, a narrow victory of 3-2.
The next two days of the game were relatively uneventful, and the strong and weak dialogue did not break out. Today's last matchday ushered in the showdown between Fujian and Beijing, and if the Beijing team, which had won all three games, won the ninth place with an unbeaten record. In the final round of the Weifang Division on April 13, Liu Xiaotong's Beijing team won 3-0 against the Fujian team led by Lin Li and Zheng Yixin.
In this game, both sides lined up the main lineup, Beijing started as the main attack Liu Xiaotong and Wang Yunruo, the secondary attack Zhang Yu and Xue Yizhi, the successor Ren Kaiyi, the second pass Lei Hailin, the free man Wang Lin; the Fujian team started as the main attack Shenyang, Lin Lin, the deputy attack Zheng Yixin, Liang Weifan, received Liang Guiqian, the second pass Lin Yuexin, the free man Lin Li.
After Beijing won the first set 25-22, Fujian tied the score 25-20. In the third set, the score was glued between the two sides, Beijing took the lead in 24-23, and then made a mistake in the serve, after which Fujian scored two consecutive points with the net and counterattack, and won the set 26-24, reversing the score to 2-1.
The Fujian team started the fourth set with a 5-1, and Beijing had the upper hand in the middle of the inning, taking a 21-16, 22-19 lead, but after that, there were consecutive card rounds and were caught up. At the crucial time of the match, the Beijing team mismatched an attack, Fujian won 28-26, completed the reversal 3-1, and won the 9th place in the women's volleyball competition of this year's National Games, Sichuan ranked 10th, Beijing ranked 11th, and Yunnan ranked 12th.
The Beijing team only lost this game, but the ranking fell to 11th, and at the moment when the game ended, the players were very depressed, and the captain Liu Xiaotongqiang held back tears and kept comforting his teammates. After the game, she told the "I Love Women's Volleyball Team" (ID: welovevolley) reporter, "This should be my last National Games." The end of the preliminary round of the National Games is not the end, Liu Xiaotong will rush back to the national team non-stop, began to prepare for the Tokyo Olympic Games, her attitude is the same as before the Rio Olympics, "do yourself well, no regrets." ”
"Today after playing this ball, my heart is more emotional, because there are more small players in our team, so there are often some situations on the field that have baggage or want to win and are afraid of losing, but today I can feel that they are very focused on the field, and there is a lot of unity." We had a little friend who was injured behind him, but it was always on top, and others were trying to share it. Zheng Yixin's emotions are a little complicated, "It is very happy to win, because from the paper strength we are not as good as Beijing, which is the result of our whole team fighting together." Of course, there are also sadness, after all, the quadrennial National Games are over, and there may be teammates around them who will retire. ”
Lin Li also had mixed feelings: "I am still very happy to win the last round of the game, this is really a backwater battle, winning the 9th place, losing is the 11th place." Everyone on the field today worked hard and was eager to win the game. It wasn't until after the game that everyone was taking pictures that I suddenly felt that the quadrennial National Games were really over. ”
This is Zhang Xiaoya's last National Games, and she feels that the tenth place is a perfect ending: "After the preliminary round of the National Games did not enter the top eight, our team regrouped, but in fact, it is difficult to enter the top ten, and the strength of Beijing and Fujian is stronger than ours." Everyone unified their thinking, every game was divided into points to fight, and everyone worked hard and gave. The feeling now is that there are regrets, very tired, but meaningful things will not be very easy, so tired is also worth it. ”