China took a straight-sets victory of their opening males’s volleyball match on the Hangzhou Asian Games.
HANGZHOU, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) — China eased to a 3-0 victory over Kyrgyzstan within the males’s volleyball preliminary spherical of the nineteenth Asian Games on Wednesday.
China confronted an early problem from their opponents with the scores tied at 11-11, however the house facet managed to extend the hole because of Zhang Jingyin’s high-quality serves, taking the primary set 25-19.
Zhang, along with teammate Li Yongzhen, continued his high quality serves to assist China seal a 25-18 victory within the second set.
China delivered a 6-1 run to begin the third set and drive Kyrgyzstan to name a timeout. Kyrgyzstan later started to catch up, however China launched aggressive assaults to safe a 25-18 win.
“We had a slow start. We need to further improve our cooperation. I hope we can do better in the following matches,” stated Zhang, who contributed a team-high 15 factors.
“This is our first match at the Hangzhou Asiad. As I hope all players can find their rhythm, I put all of them on the court for rotation,” stated China head coach Wu Sheng.
Elsewhere, Pakistan crushed Chinese Taipei 3-0 (25-18, 25-20, 25-19). Both groups had 17 factors from opponent errors, whereas Pakistan earned 16 extra assaults.
“At the Asian championships [in August] we lost against them. They are a good team, but we analyzed them and trained especially for them, so we were ready to take them on,” stated Pakistan’s Murad Jehan.
“We have good blockers and good receivers, and all around we have a good team, so we were ready. We were expecting the result,” he added.
Also on Wednesday, Iran thrashed Nepal 3-0, Qatar beat Thailand 3-1, Japan sailed previous Indonesia 3-0, the Philippines defeated Afghanistan 3-0, and India edged South Korea 3-2.