China team
After their win again Kazakhstan in the opening match, the men’s team seems well placed to follow in the footsteps of their female counterparts who won the first phase of the China International Women’s Volleyball Tournament on Sunday in Ningbo.
The tournament – which is being held from May 21 to 23 – will see China play against Kazakhstan and India. Australia was not able to participate in the tournament owing to a conflict in their schedule and were replaced by Henan Tianguan, a club in the Chinese volleyball league.
On the opening day, China won in straight sets against Kazakhstan (25-20, 25-23, 25-16), while India defeated the host club team, Henan Tianguan in a closely contested match (19-25, 25-23, 22-25, 25-23,11-15).
“Though we won, I am not very satisfied with the process. We came into the role slowly and the cooperation was not so smooth. But we geared into the right way later through improving our serving, blocking and variety of attacking.” said coach Xie Guocheng, “The main target for this tournament is to give each player as much practice as possible in their position.”
Captain Zhong Weijun said, “We played in a bit of a hurried manner in the beginning. After all we only trained for just two weeks. But we adjusted ourselves well and took down the match.”
The tournament will take place in Luohe for anther 2 days as the following schedule:
May 22
16:00 India Vs Kazakhstan
19:30 China Vs Henan
May 23
16:00 China Vs India
19:30 Henan Vs Kazakhstan
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