China upsets top-ranked U.S., joins Turkey in VNL semifinals

Team USA, the top-ranked team in this year’s Women’s Volleyball Nations League (VNL), faced a major upset against host China (3-2) in a match at Macau’s East Asian Games Dome. On paper, the match that closed the quarterfinals should have gone to the Americans, but that was not the story. Starting the match strongly, the USA won the first set (25-15) but, after that, it struggled to receive China’s powerful serves and lost too many points on balls played on the limit. Taking full advantage of this phase of the Americans’ decline, China gained confidence and, boosted by the support […]

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