China News Agency, Beijing, August 29th. The 2022 Women's Volleyball Asian Cup final was held in the Philippines on the evening of the 29th.

The five-time Asian Cup champion Chinese women's volleyball team lost 1:3 to the Japanese women's volleyball team and won the runner-up.

This is the second time that the Chinese women's volleyball team has won the Asian Cup runner-up, and the Japanese women's volleyball team has won the Asian Cup championship for the first time.

　　This year's Asian Cup Chinese team sent a second-line lineup to participate, and the first-line main lineup prepared for the upcoming Women's Volleyball World Championships.

Since the start of the Asian Cup, the Chinese team has performed well. The Chinese team has won the first place in the group stage with a record of four consecutive victories.

　　In this game, the starting lineup of the Chinese women's volleyball team sent the main attackers Zhuang Yushan and Wu Mengjie, the auxiliary attackers Hu Mingyuan and Wang Wenhan, the supporters Zhou Yetong, the second passer Sun Haiping, and the free man Xu Jianan.

　　In the first game of the day, the Chinese team's offensive efficiency was not high after the opening, and the Japanese team started with a 4:1 lead.

Then the Chinese team replaced Wang Yifan and Xu Xiaoting in succession, and once chased the score to 23:24.

At the critical moment, the Japanese team requested a suspension to stabilize the situation, and finally took the next game at 25:23.

　　In the second game, the Chinese team encountered a card round after leading 6:4, and the Japanese team took the opportunity to score 6 points in a row to overtake.

Since then, the Chinese team's attack has been effective many times and hit a wave of small climaxes, but at the end of the game, the Japanese team stepped up the offensive and won the second game with 25:21, leading by a big score of 2:0.

　　In the third game, the Chinese team improved the quality of their serve and pulled one back with 25:19.

However, in the fourth game, the Chinese team fell into a passive position again, and it was always difficult to break through the opponent's defense line.

In the end, the Japanese team won another game 25:16 and won the Asian Women's Volleyball Championship.

　　In the competition for the third place, the Thai women's volleyball team defeated the Vietnamese women's volleyball team 3-0 and won the third place in this Asian Cup.

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