Chinanews Client Beijing, July 25th (Xingchen Liu) On the afternoon of the 25th, Beijing time, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Women's Volleyball Team was held. The Chinese women's volleyball team ushered in the first opponent of this competition, the Turkish women's volleyball team, at the Ariake Arena.

Facing the opponent's strong offensive, the Chinese women's volleyball team was defeated and lost 0-3 to the opponent and missed the start. The scores of the three games were 21-25, 14-25, and 14-25.

　　This time the Chinese women's volleyball team went to Tokyo as the defending champions. In 2016, they once again topped the Olympic podium after 12 years in Rio.

Among the 12-man rosters selected this time, 7 are members of the Rio Olympic Games champions. In addition, there is also the main attacker Li Yingying who has grown rapidly during the Tokyo Olympic cycle. Compared with 5 years ago, the current Chinese women's volleyball team is more mature.

This time, Zhu Ting, the head of the Chinese women's volleyball team, served as the standard bearer of the opening ceremony. In an interview with the media, she said that the goal of this women's volleyball team is still to raise the national flag and play the national anthem.

Zhu Ting smashed the ball in the game.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang

　　But the road to defending the title was not a smooth road. The Chinese team was stubbornly blocked by the Turkish team in the first game.

The Turkish women's volleyball team ranks 4th in the world in the latest ranking published by the World Volleyball Federation.

Team coach Goodti and 21-year-old Karakurt, who is 1.96 meters tall, are Zhu Ting’s coach and teammates in the Turkish Super League, and they are very familiar with the latter.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that because a passenger on the flight to Tokyo was found to be positive for the new crown, many players in the Turkish team received a "soft quarantine."

According to the regulations of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, athletes can participate in the competition as long as the test results are negative 6 hours before the game, and the Turkish team's close team members are tested negative before the game, and all the main players will play in the game.

　　In this game, the Chinese team started as: Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning, Yuan Xinyue, Yan Ni, Ding Xia, Gong Xiangyu, Wang Mengjie.

In the first game, the Turkish team took the lead in the net, while the Chinese women's volleyball team's pass was not ideal and was blocked on the offensive end. During the timeout, Lang Ping encouraged the players to "be more active on the offensive end."

　　After Zhu Ting and Liu Yanhan used the counterattack opportunity to help the Chinese team reduce the score, but the Turkish women's volleyball deputy Gunes made consecutive shots to help the team stay ahead.

In the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost a game 21-25 first.


　　In the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team was still unsatisfactory in the next pass. The first offense was in trouble. The Turkish women's volleyball team took advantage of the situation and fought back several times and got a 10-2 start.

After Zhang Changning's strong attack helped the Chinese women's volleyball team stabilize the situation.

The Turkish team's strong response to Karakurt's explosive power made the Chinese women's volleyball team uncomfortable. She played consecutively to help the team make another victory 25-14.

　　In the third game, the Chinese team improved on the offensive end, but the slightly impatient girls still failed to form more barriers on the defensive end.

The Turkish women's volleyball team played more and more confidently, sending out blocks one after another when the network port was dominant. Under the leadership of Zhang Changning and Zhu Ting, the Chinese women's volleyball team narrowed the score, but in the end it still failed to catch up, and finally ended with a 14- 25 lost.

　　"Everyone should pay attention and make the final two points well." Although the score is behind, Lang Ping still encourages the players to pay attention to the details of the game, which will determine the trend of the next four group matches.

Zhu Ting took off and smashed the ball.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang

　　Throughout the game, the Chinese women's volleyball team was relatively slow to enter the state, especially in the first pass and blocking links, which gave the Turkish women's volleyball team an advantage in the net.

Facing the opponent's strong response to Karakurt, the Chinese women's volleyball team was slightly insufficiently prepared in the back row defensive link, and it was difficult to pilling to form a counterattack.

The Turkish women’s volleyball team is very familiar with Zhu Ting, the main attacker of the Chinese women’s volleyball team. It can be seen from the game that the opponent can judge Zhu Ting’s spiking line and technique in advance, which also leads to Zhu Ting’s inefficient attack link. High, the Chinese women's volleyball team failed to reach the previous level on the offensive end.

　　According to the Tokyo Olympics women's volleyball promotion rules, the top four teams in the two groups will directly advance to the quarter-finals.

The grouping of the Chinese women's volleyball team was not ideal this time. They entered the "death group". The opponents in the same group are: the United States, Italy, Turkey, Russia, and Argentina.

Since the FIVB has adopted the latest dynamic ranking system, the world rankings of each team have a strong correlation with the team's recent record. Therefore, in the previous World Women's Volleyball League, the Italian women's volleyball team was not sent as the main player. The ranking has fallen recently, but it does not represent the true level of the team.

On July 19, the Chinese women's volleyball team participating in the Tokyo Olympics arrived at Tokyo Narita Airport.

The picture is the head coach Lang Ping being interviewed by the media.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan

　　With the experience of the Rio Olympics, what the Chinese team needs to do in the group stage is still to try their best to get a good ranking.

As the director Lang Ping said in an interview after the women's volleyball team arrived in Japan, the team will not follow the rhythm and rules of the previous edition. The team will start from scratch and actively attack the opponent.

　　After losing to the Turkish women's volleyball team today, the start of the Chinese team was not ideal, and the situation in the group stage became more complicated.

Looking at the matchups after the group B, the biggest opponents of the Chinese women's volleyball team are the American women's volleyball team and the Italian women's volleyball team.

　　Although in the previous May World Women's Volleyball League did not send all the main players to play, but the US women's volleyball team is still ranked first in the world.

Since the end of the Rio Olympics, the Chinese and American teams have basically tied the game.

In this year's World Women's Volleyball League, when the Chinese and American teams met, the Chinese women's volleyball team sent all the main players to play, while the American women's volleyball team "snow hide" the main attack on Larson, and the other main attack on Hill is "replacement" for free men.

In the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated their opponents 3-0 and ended with a 7-game winning streak.

　　This meeting at the Olympics will be a real matchup between the two teams. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, both sides were in the same group. The Chinese women's volleyball team was reversed by their opponents and fell 1-3 after winning one game first. defeat.

At present, the American women's volleyball team has defeated the Argentine women's volleyball team and won the first victory.

Whether the Chinese women's volleyball team can avenge their opponents in the competition has also become the highlight of the game.

　　In addition to the US team, the Italian women's volleyball team is also a "hard bone".

As early as Chen Zhonghe's period, the "golden generation" of women's volleyball team encountered a stubborn resistance from Italy.

Although at the Rio Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team easily defeated their opponents 3-0 in the group stage, but with the strong stature of Egnu's rapid rise, the Italian women's volleyball team led by Mazzanti became more and more powerful. The Tokyo Olympic cycle has become the new owner of the Chinese women's volleyball team.

In the past 7 matches between the two teams, the Italian women's volleyball team achieved a record of 6 wins and 1 loss.

In the 2018 Women's Volleyball World Championships, Italy directly eliminated the Chinese team in the semifinals and entered the final. Italy, known for its strength and bounce, took over Egnu and brought great challenges to the Chinese team in the net and defensive links. , This time she will also become the target that the girls need to focus on.

　　The journey of the Tokyo Olympics has just begun. The women's volleyball girls still have time to adjust their state. After summing up their experience from the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team still has great hopes to reverse the situation in the future!

Women's volleyball girls, don't look down!

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