The 2024 U20 Women's Volleyball Asian Championship has begun. Four group stage matches were played on the first matchday.
All four games were played.
The first match was played by the Thai women's volleyball team in Group C against the Vietnamese women's volleyball team. The Thai women's volleyball team played a little better and swept the Vietnamese women's volleyball team 3-0.
In the first game, the two teams played a close game. The Thai women's volleyball team won the Vietnamese women's volleyball team 25:23. The second game was still very close, and the Thai women's volleyball team won this game 25-22. In the third game, the Vietnamese team gave up resistance. The Thai women's volleyball team easily won the third game 25:13.
The second match was played by the Japanese women's volleyball team in Group B against the Indian women's volleyball team. There is a huge disparity in the strength of the two teams, and the Japanese women's volleyball team swept the Indian women's volleyball team 3-0.
The Japanese women's volleyball team showed great strength. They easily won the first game 25-14. The confidence of the Indian women's volleyball team was crushed. The Japanese women's volleyball team won two more games 25:11 and 25:11.
The Japanese women's volleyball team is a mixed-race child who is wearing the No. 20 jersey. She is 1.93 meters tall, which is very tall in the Japanese team. It is difficult for the Japanese women's volleyball team to produce players above 1.90 meters. She was in the spotlight at this event.
The third match was played by the Kazakhstan women's volleyball team in Group A against the Australian women's volleyball team. The two teams played five games, and the Kazakhstan women's volleyball team narrowly defeated the Australian women's volleyball team 3-2.
Kazakhstan have earned themselves a chance and have a good chance of progressing to the quarter-finals.
The Australian women's volleyball team won the first game 25-18. The Kazakhstan women's volleyball team pulled back a game with 25:22. The Australian women's volleyball team won the third game 25-21. The Kazakhstan women's volleyball team won the fourth game with the same 25:21. The two teams decided the winner in the fifth game. In the fifth game, the two teams were locked in a stalemate. Kazakhstan was lucky to win the fifth game 16-14 and narrowly beat Australia 3-2.
The fourth game was played by the South Korean women's volleyball team in Group D against the Chinese Taipei women's volleyball team. The South Korean women's volleyball team won 3-0 against the Chinese Taipei women's volleyball team. The Korean women's volleyball team won easily.
The South Korean women's volleyball team won the first game quickly 25:13. In the second game, the Chinese Taipei women's volleyball team improved, but the South Korean women's volleyball team still won the game 25:18. In the third game, the South Korean women's volleyball team continued to play at a high level and won the third game 25:17.
There will be four matches on the second match day, namely the Hong Kong, China women's volleyball team against the Japanese women's volleyball team in Group B, the Iranian women's volleyball team against the Vietnam women's volleyball team in Group C, the New Zealand women's volleyball team against the South Korean women's volleyball team in Group D, and the Chinese women's volleyball team against the Kazakhstan women's volleyball team in Group A. The match of the Chinese women's volleyball team was played at 19 o'clock in the evening.
The Chinese women's volleyball team is very likely to win Kazakhstan 3-0. The Chinese team won the Australian women's volleyball team in the third round and could join hands with the Kazakhstan women's volleyball team to advance to the quarterfinals.
Previously, the Chinese women's volleyball team has not officially announced the squad for the U20 Asian Championships. There is a list of Chinese women's volleyball teams on the official website of the Asian Volleyball Federation.
The details are as follows:
The main offensive line has Fan Boning (Jiangsu), Guo Xiangling (Shandong), Li Chenxuan (Shandong), Dong Yuhan (Beijing), the receiving line has Wang Yindi (Shanghai), Duan Mengke (Henan), the secondary offensive line has Shan Linqian (Beijing), Chen Houyu (Shanghai), Guo Weilin (Shandong), the second setter has Zhu Hangting (Tianjin), Li Yuening (Shandong), and the free man has Sun Wanjun (Tianjin).
Wang Yindi served as the captain. The Shandong team has 4 people, the Tianjin, Shanghai and Beijing teams have 2 people each, and the Jiangsu team and Henan team have 1 person each.
Kuang Qi served as the head coach.