Defeating China, Thailand was crowned at the Asian Volleyball Championship after 10 years
Both China and Thailand have repeatedly ascended to the top position of the Asian women's volleyball championship, but were unable to win the crown in the last two editions. Therefore, both teams showed extreme determination to regain their former glory in today's final match.
China's young team gathered many young potential talents, but when under the pressure of the final match as well as the Thai audience, coach Cai Bin's team entered the game quite awkwardly and made many mistakes. step 1, while Thailand shows stability in all aspects. China's comeback in the final stages of the match was too late, unable to help them turn the situation around and had to accept defeat 21-25.
Thailand continued to dominate the match in the second set. While everyone was thinking about a victory for Thailand when they had 4 set points, China rose up strongly and scored 5 consecutive points. point. Although China's scoring streak was stopped, the world's 5th ranked team still completed an impressive comeback with a 27-25 victory.
China and Thailand continued to create an extremely dramatic score chase in set 3. While China still had difficulty in step 1, the Thai girls with superior experience and more uniformity in The squad was the one who broke through, thereby winning 25-19 in the pivotal set.
The real difficulty came for Thailand in set 4, when China, with its excellent blocking ability, neutralized many of the home team's scoring situations. Although Thailand's coordinated attack plans are diverse, they cannot overcome the extremely durable barrier on the Chinese side. Coach Cai Bin's army got a 25-20 win set and brought the final to set 5.
With quality blocking, China was very close to winning the championship as they led for most of the deciding set. However, the inexperience of young Chinese girls was clearly shown in decisive moments. They made a series of unnecessary mistakes, then gave the opponent a 16-14 victory after a shot that did not go over the net.
Defeating China with a score of 3-2 (21-25, 27-25, 25-19, 20-25, 16-14), Thailand won the Asian women's volleyball championship for the third time. . They were very close to winning the championship in 2017 and 2019, but both lost to Japan in the final match. This is a completely worthy achievement for the Thai girls, who have shown great performance throughout the tournament.
Closing the 2023 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship, Thailand and China will have two other important tournaments in September, the Olympic qualifiers and ASIAD 19. These are two playgrounds that are considered even more attractive. and more dramatic, when the teams all gather their strongest forces and fight for the highest goal.
