On the evening of May 29, Beijing time, the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League Macao continued, and a key match was played by the Chinese women's volleyball team against the Dutch women's volleyball team. In the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team was in poor condition, saving 4 game points or failing, and then won 3 games in a row to complete a 3-1 reversal.
There are still 5 places for the women's volleyball project at this year's Paris Olympics, which will be generated through the sub-tournament of the World Women's Volleyball League, and the top 10 teams currently competing with the Chinese women's volleyball team and not yet qualified for the Olympic Games include Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany and other teams.
Since the Asian team has not yet locked in the qualification for the Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team can go straight to the Olympic Games as long as it locks in the first place in Asia after playing the sub-station match, and the main competitor is the Japanese women's volleyball team. In Brazil the week before, the Chinese women's volleyball team won 3-1, and now in Macau, the first opponent of the Chinese women's volleyball team is the European powerhouse Netherlands women's volleyball team, and the two teams are also Olympic qualification competitors.
In this game, the Chinese women's volleyball team is a home game, and Zhu Ting, the absolute core attacker in the past, ushered in the first game of returning to the national team, but coach Cai Bin did not arrange its start, Li Yingying, Wang Yunrui, Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan, Diao Linyu, Gong Xiangyu, Wang Mengjie played together.
Facing the Dutch women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team had a bad start, falling behind 0-4 directly, playing very passively, coach Cai Bin shouted a timeout and not only did not narrow the difference, but was even pulled away by the opponent, once 6-13 behind.
In the face of a desperate situation, the Chinese women's volleyball team relied on blocking the net and smashing the ball to score continuously, narrowing the score to 13-16, forcing the Dutch women's volleyball team to call a timeout, and then the Chinese women's volleyball team saved 4 game points in a row, but still failed to reverse, and finally lost 21-25. In this game, coach Cai Bin did not let Zhu Ting come off the bench, and the latter sat on the bench to watch the game throughout the game.
In this game, the state of the Chinese women's volleyball team fluctuated greatly, and the overall state was not in the best state, but fortunately, the team made timely adjustments and reversed the Netherlands with 25-23, 25-23, 25-21 respectively, and Zhu Ting also came off the bench at the last moment and did not score.
Attached is the list of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Macao:
Main attack: Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning, Wang Yunrui, Li Yingying, Wu Mengjie
Secondary attack: Wang Yuanyuan, Gao Yi, Yuan Xinyue
Answer: Gong Xiangyu, Zheng Yixin
Second setter: Diao Linyu, Ding Xia
Free people: Wang Mengjie, Ni Feifei