China 🇨🇳 vs. Belgium 🇧🇪- Highlights | Week 1 | Women's VNL 2025

First set, first serve, first point and we are underway. Britt Hurwitz receives. Good touch from the libero. Swing deep off the hands from Radovich. She's on debut, the teenager. Another swing for Radovich, doesn't find the floor. Good early defence from both teams. What a rally to start with. Is there a touch? Yes, there is. It's Chuan Yushan to open the scoring. Martin, gone with the pass. Little tip from backcourt. It was in the air for a long time but Belgium couldn't get there. Van Sas with the serve. Not a great pass from the libero at all. Chance to extend the lead but set wasn't great. Hurwitz did what she could. Good swing. Maybe that touch off the block that Hurwitz is looking for. Pass from Hurwitz, she wants it back. What a good angle but what a touch from Zhuang. Right place, right delivery. You have to do better than that to beat China. There are no line judges in the VNL. The computers say if the ball is in or out. That's high off the hands. China could take the lead. And do take the lead. Chuan Yushan. Into Britt Hurwitz. Again, she's not able to get a swing on it. Yushan, she can only tip it too. That bump over the head for Hurwitz. But only as far as Wong, the libero. From Zhuang Yushan. Lemons. Beautiful set, beautiful spike. 11-13, another good ball in. The pass is excellent, the result is better. She's MVP and best opposite at the Youth World Championships. The block is good. But not good enough to find the floor. Van Sass. Goes for a middle again. And Van Avermaet does the rest. An optimistic challenge for a touch. 19-13, it is Hurwitz with the pass. She's going to get it back. And she will win the point this time. Had a birthday yesterday. And she served an ace today. Easier said than done when it's coming at you that hot. Speaking of hot. It's a good serve, but the pass is still high quality. And the swing is to Zhuang Yushan. Wins the first set for China. China have arrived at one set to zero against Belgium. And they're going to serve first in the second set. Yushan. And Belgium can't find the floor. It's been costly in the match so far. It's costly again. Another good serve. And a touch by Nagels. And quite by her high standards. But she gets in the way of that. Again to the middle. It felt like Wang Yuan was in here forever. To have a tax box and serve points. More on that. In the way. What can she do from here? Find a heavy swing, but not heavy enough to win the point. Free ball. Can they put it away this time? To the middle. The other way. Yes, Martin. Third time lucky for Belgium in that rally. Going ABC and C was enough. Nice tempo. What rotates out of the front row will be the challenge. Gets us back under way. Another decent block. Acres of space. That collision and the point from Martin ties us up at 20. Another tip. Hasn't found the floor. But the block has. 22-21. It's close. It's in. A serve. And that is big. She delivers in style. 24-24. One set point saved. Another one coming. They play club volleyball together. But they don't. It just works. It's another set point saved. Look at that reaction. 26-25. It's in. And it's blocked. China. Read it like a book. A great set. A great contest. But it goes China's way. 27-25. It's Belgium serving first in the third set. It's in. China leading by two sets to zero. Lemons getting us back under way. Zhang with the set. She can't finish it. Send it straight through the middle of the court for the opening point. She needs to add the one where she cuts back in and opens up the cross-court angle. Seven points for her. Back over on one. A beautiful dig. Great play. Responding. Four-seven. Zhang goes to one. Ottawa Canada and Rio Brazil. Another massive block. She's got one ace, two blocks, 11 attacks. She's having an excellent game. Her box receives. Touches down. That is a lot more like it. But I think we might have an injury here. Sometimes you'll see a foot on foot. Hopefully cramp and nothing more. One of the Asian under 20 championships. With China. But a VNL debut and a first swing for Dong. Finds the floor. The first points in the VNL. Her box. Straight into a big red wall. The receiver. Pushed across court. Zhang with the first touch. Straight through. Or they have to go back to the training court. And find the next thing to get better at. Her box offers up a free ball. Zhang into her box. Gets it back. Goes at it left handed. High skill level. Rampelberg can set it up again. Off the block. Another fruitless swing. Pushes it over. A cross from Tong Xin. This time. Can't generate a point. Martin. In the right position. Down. Doesn't matter. Britt Franson. Not going to see much more of her. Serving for the match. 24-13. Her box receives. It's over on one. Belgium still just about hanging in there. Into the net. To put a lid on it.