After two consecutive defeats, the Liaoning women's volleyball team defeated Sichuan 3-0 in the preliminary round of the National Games on April 9, and the qualifying situation was very good.
After losing to the Jiangsu team on the 8th, Ding Xia said that she would make every effort to prepare for this "life and death battle" with Sichuan today. Sure enough, after the opening, the momentum of the Liaoning team was different from the previous few days, and all the players echoed loudly with each ball, encouraging each other and reminding each other.
After a stormy offensive, Liaoning took a 14-5 lead, and Sichuan lost 15-25.
In the second set, the Sichuan team used the second pass Wang Chen to play, and the Sichuan team once won the score 12-11, and Wang Chen scored twice. In the Liaoning team, Ding Xia was also a "second pass with a knife", Ding Xia first forced a back-back dunk to score 1 point, and then hit the middle slot in the middle of the second straight line at the end of the innings, helping the Liaoning team to make the next city 25-14.
Although the big score lost two sets, the Sichuan team did not give up in the third set, struggled to launch a counterattack, and played a game that was enough to be called a "life and death battle".
The two teams played very fiercely from the beginning, Zhang Xiaoya played an offensive climax in the opening stage, after the two sides fought to 6 draws, the Liaoning team began to take the lead, but the Sichuan team always stubbornly chased, and forced the Liaoning team to almost lose the game at the end of the game. Liaoning's slam mistake allowed Sichuan to chase 19 draws, followed by a pass, and then counterattacked by Sichuan, 21-19.
At the critical moment, Hu Mingyuan stepped forward and flew back to 22 draws twice in a row, and then Sichuan's Miao Yiwen and Zhang Xiaoya slammed the ball out of bounds twice, and Liaoning came to the match point 24-22. I don't want Miao Yiwen to be soft, a strong hit, and then counterattack to score, Zhang Xiaoya's back fly to pull the score to 25 draws. The Liaoning team relied on Duan Fang's attack and Hu Mingyuan's direct scoring to win the third set and win this crucial game.
Liaoning coach Zhao Yong let out a sigh of relief on the sidelines, admitting in an interview that the Games were too brutal. The team members in the field were busy relaxing, Yan Ni took off the three layers of protective gear on her body, and said with some emotion, "I have three pounds of protective gear on my body, one pound of muscle stickers, and the game is also a weight." ”
Ding Xia finally put down the hanging heart, "The third game is still a bit volatile, and you still have to play Zhejiang and Hebei in the back, you have to learn the lessons of the past and play these two games well." ”
Losing this game, the Hope of the Sichuan Women's Volleyball Team entering the final circle of the National Games is already very slim.
After the game, Zhang Xiaoya, who had just recovered from the waist surgery for four months, first took a group photo with the players of the team, and then walked to the opposite side of the net to find Ding Xia and Yan Ni, two former national team teammates.
"Such a significant game as the National Games should be the last, can not enter the final circle of the National Games, the game is willing to play one less game, it can be said that each game is played as the last game, I want to commemorate it." Speaking of taking photos with Ding Xia and Yan Ni, Zhang Xiaoya said to "I love the women's volleyball team (ID: welovevolley)".
Speaking of the group photo of Ding Xia and Xiaoya, we suddenly remembered that six years ago, in the spring of 2015, when the "I Love Women's Volleyball Team" was just starting, there was a report that Ding Xia and Zhang Xiaoya, who did not participate in the first training of the national team, suddenly received a notice to report to Zhangzhou.
"Of course I remember, we were so young then!" Ding Xia said.
"I must remember that I started practicing on the same day as Sister Xia." Zhang Xiaoya said, "Time is not used, but fortunately we all maintain a sense of youth." After all, the recovery time after surgery is too short, I can play, I enjoy the process of this game, and I cherish the feelings of good friends who have walked together for so many years. ”
Time is really useless and runs fast, but every time we see such a scene, we believe that there are some precious things that time cannot take away.