India – China
The FIVB world No.1 China, who finished third at the previous FIVB World Junior Women’s Championship in Peru, allowed their much-lowered-ranked opponents only 24 points to wrap up the lop-sided battle in 54 minutes.
China fielded a full-fledged roster in the first two sets which included Zheng Yixin, Zhu Ting, Tang Ningya and the 193cm-tall Xu Ruayo. After winning the first two sets 25-9 and 25-7 without much difficulty, China rested their best players and instead fielded substitutions including Wang Fengjiao, Yang Fangxu and Li Weiwei to comfortably capture the third set 25-8.
Wang Ning led China with 12 points, with Nishya Joseph bagged six points for India.
“I’m glad that my team won again. We played to our training level. Our next round will be tough against Chinese Taipei and Japan, but I’m convinced that my team will try their best to beat them all. Thursday is the rest day, but we go nowhere. We have to focus on our training. Our aim in this tournament remains unchanged – making it to the final match and beating our rivals in that match to retain our title,” commented China’s head coach Xu Jiande.
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