China defeats Iran 3-0 in Asian club volleyball
Xinhua, September 12, 2015 Adjust font size:
China's Zhejiang club easily defeated Iran's Islamic Azad University 3-0 in their first match at the 2015 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship held in northern Vietnam on Saturday.
With average height of 1.84 meters and 23 in age, Chinese players outperformed Iranian rivals, whose average height at 1.77 meters and 24.8 in age.
Chinese players opened the match with good performance, scoring six points in a row and ending the first set 25-7.
Iranian players found their form in the first minutes of the second set, however, failed to maintain their performance, and then lost 10-25 to Zhejiang club.
The third set ended with 25-17 for Chinese players.
The 2015 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship kicked off in Vietnam's northern Ha Nam province, some 60 km south of capital Hanoi on Saturday. The event is scheduled to last till Sept. 20.
The annual continental competition draws the participation of nine teams, including those from China, China's Taiwan, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
The winner of the tournament will earn the only ticket to compete in the 2016 edition of the FIVB' s Volleyball Women's Club World Championship, which is slated for October 2016. Enditem