2005 🇨🇳 China vs Netherlands 🇳🇱 🏐 Women Volleyball 🏐 FIVB World Grand Prix

2005 was the 1st year of new Olympic cycle. Many teams use this year to observe and train their new players in national team. The excitement of this tournament really average, many teams with many new players and skills were bad.
Post-Match Commentary :
12 teams participated in this World Grand Prix and top 6 after 3 weeks preliminary round will enter the final round in Japan. Preliminary round with 4 teams in each pool and round robin to decide the ranking. This was Week 1 game comprising China, USA, Netherlands and Thailand.
Dutch team with #12 Manon Flier (21yo, 1.91m) became the lineup since this year. #16 Debby Stam (21yo, 1.84m) & #4 Chaïne Staelens (25yo, 1.94m) played outside hitter. Huurman & Visser acted as middle, #14 Riëtte Fledderus (28yo, 1.71m) acted as setter. Only #16 was new while others were experienced. For this Dutch squad, they entered the final 6 and able to threat any teams by that time. For China, the team remained 7 Olympic gold medal players in the team, #2 Feng Kun (27yo, 1.83m), #3 Yang Hao (25yo, 1.83m), #4 Liu Yanan (25yo, 1.86m), #7 Zhou Suhong (26yo, 1.82m) #16 Zhang Na (25yo, 1.8m) were still the core of the team. #1 Wang Yimei (17yo, 1.9m) & #15 Ma Yunwen (19yo, 1.89m) was in the lineup. In 1st set, China unable to block Dutch girls attack. #12 & #4 made a big trouble to Chinese squad. #18 Zhang Ping (23yo, 1.87m) replaced the new player #15 in 2nd set, it made the 6 Olympic gold members on court. China played with patience and start blocking Dutch attacks and score difference became bigger and bigger.