Xinhua News Agency, Yokohama, October 19 (Reporter Wei Hua, Yan Lei) in the semi-final of the 2018 Women’s Volleyball World Championship held on the 19th, the Chinese women’s volleyball team lost to the opponent at 2:3 after five hard battles and missed the final. The scores of the five games were 18:25, 25:21, 16:25, 31:29 and 15:17 respectively.
Although it failed to enter the final, the Chinese women’s volleyball team still played a turbulent match. The Chinese team dragged the match into the final match after two times and saved several points in the final stage. On the offensive end, the Italian team got an amazing 45 points in the whole game of egnu. The three Chinese team scored double, of which Zhu Ting scored the highest 26 points in the team.
Italy and the Chinese team had both won and lost 10 games before. This was the second time the two teams played in this world championship. In the first stage, Italy defeated the Chinese team 3:1. In the history of the world championships, the Chinese team and the Italian team had played against each other for nine times before, and the Chinese team was superior in six wins and three losses, but the Chinese team only won once in the nearly four world championships. Facing the Chinese team in the world competition, the Italian team has won four consecutive victories.
In this campaign, the Chinese team still offered the strongest starting: focusing on Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning, vice attacking yuan Xinyi and Yan Ni, receiving Gong Xiangyu, and the second biography Ding Xia and the free man Wang Mengjie. The Italian team was led by egnu.
In the first game, the Chinese team was in a catch-up state for most of the time. It once fell by 9 points. With zilichela’s spiking sets success in No. 3, the Chinese team lost one game at 18:25.
The Chinese team maintained a weak advantage in the game. After the battle to 16:15, Yuan Xinyan won spiking sets, egnu hit the ball out of the world, and the Chinese team got a three-point lead. Although the Italian team reduced the score difference to one point after the suspension, the Chinese team immediately requested to suspend and stabilize the situation. At 23:21, Hu Mingyuan replaced Yan Ni and scored two serve points directly to bring back a game for the Chinese team.
The Chinese team once made a 4:1 start in the third game and entered the first technical suspension with a score of 8:6. However, in the serve round of Bossetti, the Chinese team appeared Kalen, and the Italian team scored six points in a row to surpass the score. Later, Lang Ping replaced Yao Di and Zeng Chunlei with the “two points for three points” tactic, but the effect was not great. With egnu scoring serve in the last two consecutive records, the Chinese team fell behind again with a big score of 1:2.
Italy, which was 1:4 behind in the fourth game, chased the score to 9:9, and then the Italian team tied the score many times. At the time of the 19th, the Italian team relied on the continuous scores of egnu and zilichela to surpass the score to 22:19, but the Chinese team quickly equalized the score. Since then, the two sides started a seesaw battle, from 23 to 29. At the critical moment, Yan Ni succeeded spiking sets. Zhu Ting explored that the challenge was successful after he was sentenced out of the border at first header. The Chinese team struggled to set the score to 2:2.
The Match of the decisive match was abnormally glued. The two teams fought from 1:1 to 12:12. After that, Zhu Ting was stopped spiking sets. Egnu scored serve. The Italian team won the match and the Chinese team won the rescue match twice in a row. After 14 draws, egnu went out of bounds spiking sets after scoring, and the two teams fought at 15:15 again. In the face of egnu’s attack, there were not many ways for the Chinese team. After egnu, he recorded two spiking sets achievements in a row to end the suspense of the game.
The Chinese team will compete with the Dutch team for the third place on the 20th, and the latter will lose 1:3 to Serbia in another semi-final.