Brazil top China at volleyball Grand Prix finals
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Olympic Champions Brazil upset China 3-1 on Thursday for their second straight win at the 2012 women's volleyball Grand Prix finals in Ningbo city, east China.
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Blocks play a key role in Brazil's win over China. |
Brazil had 17 successful blocks while China had only eight. Menezes Thaisa and Castro Sheilla scored 18 points each to lead the game, Claudino Fabiana added 14.
The top scorer of China is Hui Ruoqi, who contributed 13 points, including 11 kills and two ace serves.
"Today our receiving was not stable, and because one of our right-wing attackers was injured before the match, we had to rely heavily on the left-side attacking. Unfortunately, Brazil knew that clearly and found the way to deal with it," said Yu Juemin, head coach of China.
The opening set started off with a quick Brazilian lead at 8-3, forcing China Yu to call time-out twice in less than 10 minutes.
After the game resumed, Hui inspired a 4-1 run to level the game at 12-apiece.
Brazil soon got the upper hand back with their solid defense and maintained the narrow lead to 21-16. Brazil moved on to win the set 25-21.
China stepped up their game in the second set and established an early lead 10-6 after a 4-0 run led by middle blocker Xu Yunli.
Zhang Lei helped hold the lead with a couple of shots and a good block as China pushed the game to 15-10. Brazil closed in the gap at 21-23 but Fan Linlin's kill gave China the set point and an out-of-court shot from Brazil player allowed China to claw one set back at 25-21.
China maintain the momentum early in the third set and managed to stay up at 7-5, but Brazil answered with a 3-0 run to lead into the first TTO at 8-7. Blocks from Fabiana and Sheilla helped Brazil extend the lead to 16-10. At 24-17, Thaisa again refused a spike from Hui to put Brazil ahead in sets again.
The Brazilian women started strongly in the fourth set, racing to a 6-0 lead and improved it to 16-7 at the second TTO. China made some substitutions as Chu Jinlin came off the bench to score three points in a row to help China pull with 11-16.
But Brazil cruised to victory at 25-18 by running off four of the last six points and bagged the win in one hour 39 minutes.
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