China's Tian Jia/Wang Jie net second preliminary win in beach volleyball
11/8/2008 17:36
Chinese women beach volleyball pair Tian Jia/Wang Jie scored their second
victory in the preliminaries at the Beijing Olympics today, defeating a Belgian
pair.
With the win, the Chinese pair, which defeated a Swiss duo in the first
preliminary match on Aug. 9, have good chance in earning a berth in top
16.
The Chinese achieved the hard-won victory 2-1 (18-21, 21-19, 15-13) over
Liesbeth Mouha and Liesbet Van Breedam of Belgium.
They said they were
satisfied with the result.
"At some time we didn't play to our normal
standard, but I'm happy with the result," said the 24-year-old Wang after the
match.
"They are a strong team and we were defeated by them before. So we
have made preparations for the match with them," she said.
Lacking efficient
organization in attacks and ways of counter-attacks, the Chinese lost the first
set 18-21.
Both the second and the third sets were games of exchanging
scoring as the two duos made mistakes and had efficient attacks as well.
A
failure in service by the Belgians ended the third set and the host outscored
the visitors 15-13.
"We tried out best but we lost, we are unsatisfied with
the result," Van Breedam said.
This was the second loss for the Belgian pair,
which was defeated by Norway's Maaseide/Glesnes in the first preliminary match
on Aug. 9.
Xinhua
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