China ease past Kyrgyzstan in Hangzhou Asiad men’s volleyball

Agency :
China eased to a 3-0 victory over Kyrgyzstan in the men’s volleyball preliminary round of the 19th Asian Games on Wednesday.

Early in the match, China faced a challenge from their opponents as the score was tied at 11-11, but China managed to enlarge the gap due to Zhang Jingyin’s high quality serves, winning the first set 25-19.

Zhang, together with his teammate Li Yongzhen, continued quality serves to help China seal a 25-18 victory in the second set.

China delivered a 6-1 run to start the third set and force Kyrgyzstan to call a timeout. Kyrgyzstan later began to catch up, but China launched aggressive attacks to secure another 25-18 win.

“We had a slow start. We need to further improve our cooperation.

I hope we can do better in the following matches,” said Zhang, who contributed a team-high 15 points.

“This is our first match at the Hangzhou Asiad.

As I hope all players can find their rhythm, I put all of them on the court for rotation,” said China’s head coach Wu Sheng.

Pakistan crushed Chinese Taipei 3-0 (25-18, 25-20, 25-19).

Both teams had 17 points from opponent errors, while Pakistan earned 16 more attacks.

“At the Asian championships (in August) we lost against them.

They are a good team, but we have analyzed them and trained especially for them, so we were ready to take them on,” said Pakistan’s player Murad Jehan.