The third round of the Chinese Women's Volleyball Super League playoffs has been over for a few days, but there is still one match that stands out in memory. This match was a decisive 3-0 victory for the Jiangsu women's volleyball team over the Shenzhen team, with Jiangsu playing at home and Shenzhen as the visiting team.
In this game, the Jiangsu women's volleyball team, stationed at the Changzhou University Gymnasium, awaited the challenge of the Shenzhen Australian Tigers Zhongse women's volleyball team with ease. The two teams had met before during the regular season, with Shenzhen winning 3-2 against Jiangsu thanks to Dong Mingxiao's outstanding performance. In this game, Jiangsu was determined not to repeat past mistakes and thus fielded their main lineup without any slack.
Compared to the regular season, Jiangsu's strength has significantly increased with the return of their three main players, making it not difficult to defeat Shenzhen. However, coach Shi Hairong was worried about unexpected situations and thus took extra precautions, ensuring all main players were ready for action. Since replacing Cai Bin as the head coach of the Jiangsu women's volleyball team, Shi Hairong has received unanimous praise from the club and fans. His characteristic approach is steady and methodical, never recklessly going all-out on offense. However, facing Shenzhen, he couldn't help but get excited.
Shenzhen women's volleyball team is actually composed of foreign players and young players from Tianjin women's volleyball team. Tianjin sent some players who couldn't play in matches to Shenzhen for practical training. Therefore, when Shenzhen faces Jiangsu, they play with great excitement and fighting spirit, while Jiangsu goes all out. If they can't win against Tianjin's first and second teams, can't they win against Tianjin's third team? When Tianjin meets Jiangsu, both sides don't need to hold pre-game pep talks; they know they must bring out their best moves. Now, Jiangsu and Shenzhen are showing their abilities and not giving in to each other.
However, due to the return of the three main attackers including Diao Linyu, Shenzhen is no longer able to compete with Jiangsu. Jiangsu completely dominated the Tianjin youngsters sent by Tianjin to Shenzhen, which can be described as a complete defeat for the Tianjin youngsters. It's undeniable that they lost quite badly. After consecutive defeats to Tianjin's first and second teams, Jiangsu finally won a satisfying victory against Tianjin's third team. Jiangsu won the third round of the playoffs with an absolute advantage of 25-12, 25-14, 25-20. Wu Mengjie scored 16 points.
After three consecutive victories, Jiangsu has firmly secured the top spot in Group C and basically qualified for the top four battles. They are likely to face Tianjin in the top four battles. After Tianjin defeated Shandong 3-0, they have also firmly occupied the top spot in Group D. Basically, the opponent in the top four battles will be Jiangsu. Whenever Tianjin faces Jiangsu, the games are always spectacular and never disappoint the fans.
