Taipei, Chinese Taipei, September 22,
2011 – China stunned Korea in four sets(25-14, 25-20, 21-25, 25-16)
to set up a gold-medal clash against Japan at the 16th Asian Senior
Women's Volleyball Championship.on Thursday.
China's services proved to be more
destructive today as they had 11 points on serves. Their top scorer
was Hui Ruoqi with 20 points, followed by Wang Yimei, 17 points, and
Yang Junjing, 15 points. Korea's ace Kim Yeon Koung, also showed her
firepower with 21 points, followed by middle blocker Jun Dae Young
with 11 points.
China led throughout the first set as
their blocks almost disabled Korea from spiking, and Korea's middle
blockers had a hard time to score. The Korean Ace, Kim Yeon Koung,
had to find chances to snatch points from China with her back
attacks. With one quick spike of Yang Junjing, China sealed the set
25-14.
The second set began again with China
leading, as Yang Junjing continued to undermine Korea's first pass
with her powerful serves. China had up to a 6-point lead at 20-14,
but Korea managed to keep up to 20- 25 and then yielded the set to
China.
Korea, two sets behind China, fought
with all their might in the third set, and they led 6-3 as Kim Yeon
Koung had a serve that hit straight on Hui Ruoqi. China, on the other
hand, leveled the scores at 12-12 with Yang Junjing's destructive
serves. The seesaw carried on, till Kim Yeon Koung finally led her
team to win the set 25-21 and to escape losing the match.
However, as Wang Yimei had two aces in
a row, China started the lead in the fourth and the last set.
Meanwhile Korea, shattered by Xu Yun Li's equally aggressive serves,
lost four points in a series of reception errors, enabling China to
maintain a 10-point lead at 19-9. The set and the match ended with
Wang Yimei's two smacks, and Korea were only able to gain 16 points
in the last set.
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