HANGZHOU, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) — Defending champion China beat Thailand 3-0 on Friday to arrange a remaining showdown towards Japan within the ladies’s volleyball match on the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Thailand jumped 3-0 forward within the opening set earlier than China fought again with an 8-0 run. Although Thailand managed to stage the scores at 19-19, China lastly received the set 25-21.
At one level, Thailand had a six-point benefit within the second set, however China’s Li Yingying and Wu Mengji mixed for 4 factors to chop the deficit, earlier than Gong Xiangyu served to take the set 25-23.
The third set was a relatively simpler affair for China as they prevailed 25-15.
“The most important thing I think in today’s match is we prepared for the difficulties. We didn’t pay a lot of attention to the huge deficit we had in the middle of the second set, we just focused on how to solve the problem,” mentioned Li, who led China with 19 factors.
Thailand’s Chatchu On Moksri scored a game-high 21 factors, however China had 4 gamers in double-digits.
Japan edged Vietnam 3-1 (26-24, 25-21, 23-25, 25-16) within the different semifinal.
Both aspect exchanged lead spike for spike within the first set till the scores have been tied at 24-24, then Japan’s Mizuki Tanaka scored two in a row to kill the suspense.
Japan stored a tiny benefit all through the second set, earlier than Vietnam fought again to win the third set.
In the fourth set, Japan produced a 5-0 run to sprint Vietnam’s hopes of dragging the sport right into a decider.
Japan’s Yuki Nishikawa was the main scorer with 22 factors, whereas Vietnam’s Hoang Thi Kieu Trinh top-scored for her group with 21 factors.