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.
Early within the match, China confronted a problem from their opponents because the rating was tied at 11-11, however China managed to enlarge the hole as a result of Zhang Jingyin’s top quality serves, profitable the primary set 25-19.
Zhang, collectively together with his teammate Li Yongzhen, continued high quality serves to assist China seal a 25-18 victory within the second set.
China delivered a 6-1 run to start out the third set and power Kyrgyzstan to name a timeout. Kyrgyzstan later started to catch up, however China launched aggressive assaults to safe one other 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’s head coach Wu Sheng.
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 have analyzed them and trained especially for them, so we were ready to take them on,” stated Pakistan’s participant 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.