On June 30, 2019, the World Championship Cup opened in Dongying.

In the opening match, the host Dongying national team was easily defeated 3-0 by the Serbian women's volleyball team, the top seed team in Group A, who finished second in the last European Championship.

Although the host occupies a huge home advantage, and in Dongying, volleyball, especially the women's volleyball team is also a very popular sport, but due to its own limited strength, coupled with the height disadvantage that has always existed, the host Dongying national team lost without temper.

The women's volleyball team of the Republic led by Wang Lei came to Dongying on June 25, as their own half of the home field, the treatment of the women's volleyball team in Dongying was only a little worse than that of the host team, and there were even local fans who gave small gifts to the women's volleyball team of the Republic and so on.

When Wang Lei arrived in Dongying, his throat still hadn't fully recovered, but it was much better than before.

This time in the World Champions Cup, the Republic women's volleyball team was divided into Group B, and the opponents in the same group were the Netherlands women's volleyball team, the third in Europe, the Canadian women's volleyball team in North America, and the Australian women's volleyball team in Oceania.

On the second day of the opening match, the group stage of Group B was also in full swing, and the first opponent of the Republic women's volleyball team was the only threat in the group stage, the Dutch women's volleyball team.

In this Dutch women's volleyball team, there is a player that the Republic women's volleyball players are more familiar with, that is, the Dutch meritorious player who led the Dutch team to the semifinals in the last Olympic Games, setter Karen? Ors.

When Wang Lei was coaching the Yangtze River women's volleyball team, he led the team and the prosperous women's volleyball team that had not yet declined in the AFC Champions League. Ors, Varenna? A world-class player like Pochesky, the Yangtze River women's volleyball team fought hard for five games in that game but ultimately lost.

Now the captain of the Republic women's volleyball team, Yue Min, for Karen? Ors can be said to be very familiar, after all, they have been working together for two years, so before the start of the game, Yue Min also specially talked to Karen? Orth had a brief conversation.

Thirty-five-year-old Karen? Ols is already at the end of her career, but she's a setter and doesn't need to be physically strong, so Karen? Ols is in good shape, but she doesn't have the slightest confidence in this game now, because the opponent is not only Ma Dongmei, who is now very hot in the world volleyball arena, but also her old friends Yue Min and Karen? Ors knew Yue Min's abilities.

The current Dutch women's volleyball team is no longer the team that broke into the semifinals of the Olympic Games before, with the aging of the last batch of players, coupled with the lack of young players, so the strength of the Dutch women's volleyball team has declined very quickly, although it won the third place in the last European Championships, but it is really possible to beat the fifth or sixth team, I have to say, there is indeed no weak team in Europe.

After the game started, Wang Lei did not press Ma Dongmei and Yue Min on the bench like in the warm-up game, on the contrary, not only Yue Min and Ma Dongmei were starters, but even Lin Na, who had always been placed in the rotation lineup, also got the opportunity to start.

After all, it is the first game of the World Champions Cup, Wang Lei must play momentum in this game, build the confidence of the team, and also reverse the decline in the warm-up game, this is not that Wang Lei does not trust young players, but young players have never had experience in the competition, and rashly changing the field will only make them at a loss, so Wang Lei must wait until the team establishes a certain advantage before replacing young players, so that they can gradually adapt to the rhythm of the competition.

So when the game officially started, the Republic women's volleyball team quickly established a huge advantage.

Needless to say, Yue Min's pass was as stable as ever, and with the assistance of Lin Na, the Republic's back-row defense can be said to be solid.

In the front row, although the young setter Sun Yike and Ma Dongmei and Liu Jiani, the assistant attacker, are not very cooperative, but fortunately, the blocking of the Dutch women's volleyball team is not very good, so even if it is a simple highball cooperation, it can also give full play to Ma Dongmei's attack power.

Karen? Ors could only use his experience advantage to launch some surprise attacks, trying to bite the score, but the Republic women's volleyball team did have an advantage in front of the net, coupled with a more stable mentality, the Republic women's volleyball team easily won the first game 25-16.

After entering the second game, Wang Lei began to make some adjustments, Yue Min took a short rest, after all, she was thirty-two years old, and a pass was very physically and mentally demanding, so Yue Min must have a qualified replacement.

Lin Na's first-pass stability may not be as stable as Yue Min, but fortunately, she is younger than Yue Min, and she is also a player who has experienced ups and downs, so there will be no problems in her mentality.

So in the second game, although Yue Min and Ma Dongmei were both rested, the Dutch team still failed to pose much threat to the Republic women's volleyball team and approached their core Karen? Ors was older, and she also had to take a break.

The intention of the Dutch women's volleyball team in this game is actually obvious, that is, to focus on training, and then fight the last two opponents, and finally qualify for the second place in the group, which is their best idea, after all, the Republic women's volleyball team is now very strong, and is undergoing a comprehensive reform.

So in the second game, Ma Dongmei and Yue Min sat off the court for the whole game, and then the Republic women's volleyball team won 25-21.

There are many Chinese in the stands who came to the scene to cheer for the team of the motherland, and many local fans also support the women's volleyball team of the Republic representing the glory of Asia, and more importantly, Wang Lei's women's volleyball team of the Republic can be called the "Nanbo Bay" in the recent national teams in terms of appearance, which has attracted the attention of a group of otaku, especially Yue Min, there were many young fans who didn't know who Yue Min was, but after the hype in May, Yue Min immediately had a lot of fans and sisters.

I have to say that in this era, appearance is really justice.

After entering the third game, the head coach of the Dutch women's volleyball team also replaced a group of young players, and they also knew that they were not the opponents of the women's volleyball team of the Republic at all, so they were ready to start training directly, and Wang Lei also responded immediately, and all the young players on the bench appeared, and both sides started the training mode very tacitly.

In the end, the Republic women's volleyball team, which was more active, won the third game 25-23.

In this way, the women's volleyball team of the Republic made a good start in this World Championship Cup competition, although the score of 3-0 does not mean anything, but it is enough to give some opponents in the country a little rest, after all, it will be too obvious if you are still picking on thorns in this situation.