In the first three rounds of the group stage, the Chinese women's volleyball team performed strongly, sweeping the weak European women's volleyball team of Ukraine, the North American women's volleyball team of Mexico and the European women's volleyball team of Czechoslovakia 3-0, and overwhelmed the veteran team of Serbia by virtue of the advantage of the underdogs, occupying the first place in the Group A table.
In the fourth round, the Chinese women's volleyball team faced the Canadian women's volleyball team from North America. Cai Bin sent out an unchanged starting lineup, with main attackers Li Yingying and Wang Yunmiao, vice attackers Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan, meeting Gong Xiangyu, passing to Diao Linyu, and free agent Wang Mengjie.
In the first game, the two teams started to fight and exchanged leads for a while, and the Chinese women's volleyball team fell 26-28 after taking the lead on set point 24-22, trailing 0-1 overall.
In the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team had a strong offense and quickly widened the gap to double digits, eventually winning 25-15 and tying the total score to 1-1. In the third game, the two teams drew several times, and the Chinese women's volleyball team lost again with 23-25, falling behind 1-2 in the total score. In the fourth game, China Women's Volleyball Team won 25-22, the total score is 2-2, the two teams are back to the same starting line again.
In the deciding game of the fifth match, Chinese women's volleyball team took a 7-3 lead, but then was tied. The two teams' scores were nipped several times. after 15-all, the opposing team made a strong attack, Li Yingying's back row attack was stopped, and the Chinese women's volleyball team flunked the total score of 2-3.
Four Chinese women's volleyball players scored double-digit points, Li Yingying scored 31 points, Gong Xiangyu scored 17 points, Yuan Xinyue and Yuan Yuan scored 16 points. In terms of total score, Chinese women's volleyball team is even ahead of Canadian women's volleyball team.
After their first loss, the Chinese women's volleyball team relinquished their lead and slipped to second place in the Paris Olympics Qualifying Group A standings, with 10 points from the third-ranked Dutch women's volleyball team's 3 wins and 1 loss. Serbia moved to the top of the table with 12 points from four consecutive victories. The Dominican Republic is fourth with 9 points and is eyeing the top spot.
The Chinese women's volleyball team will have to beat the Dutch women's volleyball team in this jam-packed battle if they want to take the top two spots in the group and advance directly to the Paris Olympics! Can you beat the enemy? Let's wait and see!
