Jiangmen, China, July 3, 2024 – Fired-up China powered their well past Australia in snug straight units 25-13, 25-15, 25-13 to high Pool A and superior to the spherical of final 8 within the twenty second Asian Ladies’s U20 Volleyball Championship on the Jiangmen Sports activities Heart Gymnasium on Wednesday.
Reverse and skipper Wang Yindi delivered a match-high 16 factors from 13 kills, one block and two aces for China, whereas exterior hitter Guo Xiangling and fellow exterior hitter Dong Yuhan contributed 9 and seven factors respectively. Ella Schubort scored 9 factors, all in assault, on the Australia’s loss.
China, present world champions and silver medallists on the earlier version in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan two years in the past, fielded a robust lineup led by reverse and skipper Wang Yindi and center blocker Shan Linqian, each of them performed within the gold-winning China group on the final 12 months’s FIVB Ladies’s U21 World Championship in Mexico. Additionally strengthening the group had been 4 gamers who joined the China group within the final 12 months’s Women’ U19 World Championship in Hungary together with Guo Wailin, Li Chenxuan and Chen Houyu. Australia had been led by the 189cm-tall exterior hitter Ella Schabort.
China stormed into the match with loads of energy and confidence. A collection of back-to-back factors together with aces by Guo Xiangling and Fan Boning gave the host aspect an early 16-9 benefit within the first set. The Aussies tried to bounce again, however did not make their mark. The Chinese language gamers capped their stellar present by every hitting lethal cross-court spikes to provide the group a simple win 25-13 within the first set.
The second set was extra thrilling as each side traded factors till 9-9. China broke away 18-14 and reached the set level 24-15, because of sub-in Dong Yuhan, who hit a robust mid-court assault. To make brief work of Australia, center blocker Guo Weilin and setter Zhu Hangting successfully produced a strong block for an aggressive spike from Caitlin Whincup for China’s 25-15 win within the set.
The rhythm was with the Chinese language aspect within the third set as they raced to a 20-12 lead and prolonged it to 23-13. China bagged the remaining two factors following the Aussies’ unforced errors together with the web fault within the final level, 25-13.
With nice steadiness in blocks, the place the Chinese language had the sting by 5 to 2, and factors earned in opponent errors, the place they’d a 24-14 benefit, China dominated in kills (37 to 23) and aces (9 to 2) which was pivotal to their victory.
China superior to spherical of final 8, whereas Australia, struggling their first loss by the hands of Kazakhstan, had been relegated to classification spherical for Ninth-Twelfth locations.
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