Women's Volleyball FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournaments 2023

[Josh 13,502]

 defeat  3-2! 

[CCB 624]

33 minutes ago, Josh said:

 defeat  3-2! 

Well, finally we can congrat you @Josh. Really sad way to start the tournament for The Netherlands, but they were really choking in het 1st, 4th and especially 5th set. I expected a lot more, but in the end: we lost in recent months two times against Canada, so we have to admit Canada is really the better one now. Good luck in the rest of the tournament; I give Canada just a small chance to beat Serbia and China, but fighting spirit they have, so who knows!!

[Josh 13,502]

10 minutes ago, CCB said:

Well, finally we can congrat you @Josh. Really sad way to start the tournament for The Netherlands, but they were really choking in het 1st, 4th and especially 5th set. I expected a lot more, but in the end: we lost in recent months two times against Canada, so we have to admit Canada is really the better one now. Good luck in the rest of the tournament; I give Canada just a small chance to beat Serbia and China, but fighting spirit they have, so who knows!!

Yes, Netherlands may not have played their best game, but I have no doubt that they'll rebound from this loss. Wasn't exactly pleased with Canada's performance either, despite the win. Pissed off with our efforts during sets 2 and 3, we really struggled to kill the ball. Of course, it didn't help that Netherlands were on fire. Anyways, if we want to qualify for the Olympics, we'll need to play much better than we did today. 

 

Best of luck to you as well  @CCB

[Noorderling29 238]

I left the house at 10 - 13 in the 5th, and saw at my phone that the set ended at 13-15. Was not aware that the team came back, just to give it away again.

 

 

[JoshMartini007 2,861]

Good start for Canada. If we can get the win tomorrow against the Dominican Republic then we are looking good to meet our objective of maximizing our world ranking points.

[Adriano 836]

Good start for Germany. Easy win.

[heywoodu 16,461]

3 hours ago, Josh said:

Yes, Netherlands may not have played their best game, but I have no doubt that they'll rebound from this loss. Wasn't exactly pleased with Canada's performance either, despite the win. Pissed off with our efforts during sets 2 and 3, we really struggled to kill the ball. Of course, it didn't help that Netherlands were on fire. Anyways, if we want to qualify for the Olympics, we'll need to play much better than we did today. 

 

Best of luck to you as well  @CCB

Thing is, there's hardly a significant 'bouncing back' to a loss against any of the 'lesser' teams (no offense to Canada at all, with 'lesser' teams I mean every team that's not Serbia or China ), and when losing against one of them, you'd basically have to beat not one, but both of the two top teams. Had the Netherlands won this, the exact same could have said about Canada of course, the Netherlands too is definitely one of those 'lesser' teams you really can't afford to lose to.

[Josh 13,502]

Day 1 Results

 

Pool A (Ningbo, China)

 d.  3-0 (25-16, 25-19, 25-23)

 d.  3-2 (25-21, 21-25, 25-21, 24-26, 15-12)

d.  3-2 (32-30, 19-25, 15-25, 25-17, 15-13)

 d.  3-0 (25-21, 25-18, 25-21)

 

Pool B (Tokyo, Japan)

d.  3-0 (25-19, 26-24, 25-21)

 d.  3-0 (25-19, 25-16, 25-14)

 d.  3-0 (25-16, 25-20, 25-22)

 d.  3-0 (25-9, 25-19, 25-15)

 

Pool C (Lodz, Poland)

 d.  3-0 (25-12, 25-12, 25-13)

 d.  3-0 (25-22, 25-22, 25-20)

 d.  3-0 (25-18, 25-15, 25-22)

 d.  3-0 (25-11, 25-20, 25-17)

 

[NearPup 4,180]

Presumably there is no scenario where can qualify for the Olympics now that they have lost to .

 

Realistically, if there a chance the qualifiers will not be ? I don't know how swingy the world ranking system is and how realistic it might be for the top 10 to change between now and June.

Edited September 17, 2023 by NearPup

[Noorderling29 238]

Minor teams are eliminating each other. As they say, yesterday’s winners are today’s losers and vice versa.

 

I think a lot can happen between now and June. A few bad losses to lower placed teams (like Dominican Republic against the Chechs) and you lose many points. 
 

Unless one of the minor teams (Germany f.I.) qualify, 10th place should be enough. NL and DR are currently 9th and 10th and have a significant cushion over Canada, of over 30 points. But yesterday has shown we are quite capable of losing the advantage over Canada.

Edited September 17, 2023 by Noorderling29