The second round of the women's volleyball group stage of the 2024 Paris Olympics started on the evening of July 31, Beijing time, the defending champion United States women's volleyball team faced the Serbia women's volleyball team, in the game, the United States women's volleyball team was tied by Serbia with a big score of 2-0 lead, and in the tiebreaker, the United States women's volleyball team narrowly won by 2 points and won the first victory of the Paris Olympics.
United States women's volleyball team VS Serbia women's volleyball team
The United States women's volleyball team is ranked 5th in the world, as the champion team of the Tokyo Olympics, the United States women's volleyball team did not get a good result in the Paris Olympic cycle, and in this year's World Women's Volleyball League, the United States women's volleyball team has a mediocre record, although it entered the finals, but the results are average. In the first group stage of the Paris Olympics, the United States women's volleyball team met the Chinese women's volleyball team in a narrow way, and finally lost 2-3 and suffered a black start.
Serbia women's volleyball team is a traditional powerhouse in Europe after being the runner-up at Rio 2016 and third at Tokyo 2021, and winning the 2018 and 2022 Women's Volleyball World Championships. At the Paris Olympics, the Serbia women's volleyball team kept a clean sheet against the France women's volleyball team and made a good start. In this group, the United States women's volleyball team, Serbia women's volleyball team, Chinese women's volleyball team and France women's volleyball team formed the death group.
In the game, when the United States women's volleyball team was behind at the beginning, it quickly adjusted its state, reversed 25-17, won the Serbia women's volleyball team 1 game first, and in the second game, the United States women's volleyball team continued to make efforts to win 25-20 and lead the Serbia women's volleyball team 2-0. The Serbia women's volleyball team, which was behind in two games, woke up from a dream and won two consecutive games 25-20 and 25-14. In the tiebreaker, the competition between the two teams entered a white heat, and the United States women's volleyball team finally won the game 17-15, and the next round of the United States women's volleyball team will face the France women's volleyball team.
Poland women's volleyball team 3-0 Kenya women's volleyball team
Poland women's volleyball team ranked 4th in the world, is a newly rising European powerhouse, in this year's World Women's Volleyball League, Poland women's volleyball team performed very well, once played a wave of 8 consecutive wins. At the Paris Olympics, the Poland women's volleyball team and the Japan women's volleyball team, the Brazil women's volleyball team and the Kenya women's volleyball team were in the same group, and in the first group stage, the Poland women's volleyball team reversed the Japan women's volleyball team 3-1 and made a good start.
In the game, the Poland women's volleyball team remained stable, defeating the Kenya women's volleyball team with a score of 3-0 and winning two consecutive victories to advance to the top 8 of the Olympic Games.
Chinese women's volleyball team VS France women's volleyball team
Chinese women's volleyball is a giant team in the world volleyball world, has won the Olympic championship 3 times, although the Tokyo Olympics gloomy group out, but the Chinese women's volleyball team is still world-class, Li Yingying, Zhu Ting, Yuan Xinyue are world-class stars, Paris Olympics, with the strongest lineup of the Chinese women's volleyball team spirit is renewed, facing the defending champion United States women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the first two games with lightning speed, although the United States women's volleyball team caught up, but in the decisive game, the Chinese women's volleyball team withstood the pressure, Won 3-2 against the United States women's volleyball team and got off to a good start.
The strength of the France women's volleyball team is average, although it is the host, but in the face of three world champion teams, the France women's volleyball team can only be reduced to the role of playing soy sauce, and in the first game, the France women's volleyball team was swept by the Serbia women's volleyball team. In this year's World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team easily defeated the France women's volleyball team. In the second group stage, the Chinese women's volleyball team only needs to defeat the France women's volleyball team to advance to the top 8 knockout round, and there is no need to beat the Serbia women's volleyball team in the final round.