{"id":42422,"date":"2019-06-12T17:13:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=42422"},"modified":"2019-06-12T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:13:15","slug":"china-close-gap-to-turkey-at-top-of-vnl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/china-close-gap-to-turkey-at-top-of-vnl\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA CLOSE GAP TO TURKEY AT TOP OF VNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Jiangmen, China, June 12, 2019 \u2013 In-form China moved to within a point of table toppers Turkey at the top of the 2019 FIVB Women\u2019s Volleyball Nations League as the world No.2 powered past the tough rivals in thrilling three-setter 26-24, 25-19, 25-21 in their second match of the week 4 campaign at the Jiangmen Sports Center Gym on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42424\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/12.jpg 960w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/12-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/12-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/12-600x372.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turkey stay top with 27 points, but China are now a solitary point behind on 26. It means Jenny Lang Ping\u2019s team are now on a run of nine wins after losing their first two matches of the 2019 VNL. It also means that seven of the 2018 bronze medallists last eight victories have been in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42425\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/15.jpg 960w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/15-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/15-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/15-600x381.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gong Xiangyu led scoring for China with 14 points, but it was Li Yingying who scored the winner with a powerful left-handed spike for her 13th point of the match.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42426\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20.jpg 960w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20-600x412.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Ebrar Karakurt took her VNL tally to 145 points after she scored 15, the same amount as teammate Meliha Ismailoglu.<\/p>\n<p>China will now wrap up the week against USA, while Turkey will take on Poland on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Related links of AVC<br \/>\nAVC Website: click www.asianvolleyball.net<br \/>\nAVC Facebook: click www.Facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation<br \/>\nAVC Twitter: click: https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley<br \/>\nAVC Instagram: click: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en<br \/>\nAVC Youtube: click: Asian Volleyball Confederation<br \/>\nAVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jiangmen, China, June 12, 2019 \u2013 In-form China moved to within a point of table toppers Turkey at the top of the 2019 FIVB Women\u2019s Volleyball Nations League as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-volleyball-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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