2023-09-24 02:33:04
The Chinese women’s volleyball team suffered three consecutive defeats and missed the opportunity to qualify for the Paris Olympics 2023-09-24 10:33:04.0 Source: Xinhuanet
Xinhua News Agency, Ningbo, September 23 (Reporters Lu Xingji, Yang Kai, Luo Yu) On the 23rd, the Chinese women’s volleyball team lost 1:3 to the Dominican team. It suffered a three-game losing streak in Group A of the Paris Olympic Women’s Volleyball Qualifying Tournament and has missed the pass. Olympic berth.
Although they struggled to win the second game, the Chinese team was at a disadvantage in both attack and defense throughout the game. The Dominican team won 25:23, 21:25, 25:14, 25:14, which also gave it a favorable position in the competition for Olympic seats.
In the first game, although the Chinese team evened the score twice, it failed to withstand the impact of the opponent’s new server at the end of the game. The problem of the Chinese women’s volleyball team’s difficulty in making an attack intensified in the second game, but the players’ concentration in the melee improved compared to the first game. Relying on continuous blocking and scoring, the Chinese team once expanded its advantage to 6 points, and finally regained the victory.
The Dominican team had only a slight advantage at the start of the third game. Seeing that the first attack was still unable to open up the situation, the Chinese team’s head coach Cai Bin requested a timeout and replaced Wang Yunou, but this change of formation did not work. At a critical moment in the game, the Chinese team’s main attacker Li Yingying suffered knee discomfort while serving and left the court briefly. Cai Bin successively made adjustments to the main attack, secondary attack and setter positions, but was still unable to recover.
At the beginning of the fourth game, the serve of Martinez, the main attacker of the Dominican team, had an impact on the Chinese team, helping the team get off to a 5:0 start. At the same time, their blocking and offense became more and more courageous, completely overwhelming the Chinese team.
Li Yingying walked into the tunnel with an ice pack wrapped around her knee after the game, but she said she had no major injuries. “It’s just that my knees suddenly became weak when I was serving and I didn’t push up.”
Talking about the reason for the loss, Li Yingying said: “I feel that in the second half of the game today we not only lost psychologically, but also technically had no way to score. This is the most fatal.”
In this game, Martinez of the Dominican team scored a game-high 25 points, while Gonzalez and Isabella also scored 21 and 16 points respectively. Li Yingying, the Chinese team’s top scorer, only scored 11 points.
Talking about this victory, Dominican team coach Marcos said: “Our whole team is a fan of the Chinese women’s volleyball team. Today’s game is fanatical, and it is a great honor to win the Chinese team.”
On the 24th, the Chinese team will face the last opponent in the group stage – Serbia, which currently occupies the top spot in Group A.
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