🇨🇳 CHN vs. 🇩🇴 DOM - Highlights Week 3 | Women's VNL 2023

Savana Cesaro blows the whistles we get underway here. China serving on the right hand side. Dominion Republic get the first swing attack. The left hand is just so powerful from Gonzales. Perhaps now just for one point. Now trying to get the middle running. With a free ball. Run the middle again twice. A great block. Chance here for Dominion Republic. Backlock. Backcourt set. Free swing. It's like pinball at the moment. It goes the way of China. It'd be great to see the graphics from Bowl 16, wouldn't it, about where Gonzales is actually swinging or should be covering the whole of the court pretty much. To then hopefully play again next year on the VNL. Back with the action. Wang Mengjie doing brilliantly on the defensive duties. Be fluent by the end of this. In every language. Wait, let's see it. The green light comes up front of the tablet of the first referee. Third point of the game. Now chance for a quick shoot ball. Oh great pick up again. Keeping the ball alive for China. 100 set backcourt. Lovely play. Good take. Pull back. It's gonna be a free ball coming in. Oh no, it's not. Not quite such a free ball. Left hand through four. Another great defense. Tight at the neck. They're asking questions and they're getting answers now. They get the point. Kicks up. Got a block for Dominion Republic. Now the back line. Oh half tempo swing. In the middle. Good defense. Rolls the line. It clips the line as well. Use the timeout for the second half of the set. Looking for an automatic response. On the back line though China come. Gonzales with the power. But it is touched on the way out. Standing float serve. It's tight on the neck. Oh what lovely take. What a set that is for the reverse. Back onto set. The captain wearing the number seven for Dominion Republic who just required two points. She goes over on the second touch. A little bit tight. The blocks there from Martinez. That's a great line shot. Game management from the Dominion Republic. Lovely quick arm swing from the number 21 Martinez. High free ball coming in for China. Get themselves back into defensive positions. Runs the middle again. The combination. Lovely point. That is a set for the Dominion Republic. Two going for it. Still getting their foot stood on by the ball being put away. Trajectory that it's coming down with is just so difficult. It's not gone down. It's a great pickup in the end. Well great response from on almost a serve against you. Yingying just steps over that three meter line. We'll wait to see this time. It is an ace serve. Oh that one has just cut the back of it. It's tight in there. Well taken. It's really easy to catch the net on that one as well. Two required to take a 2-1 lead. Much needed victory for China. Wow what a block. Still set point for China. What a way to take it. China lead 25-22 and lead by two sets to one. Perfect ace. Such a wild... Gonzalez has gone as soon as she saw it. Let's have a ball behind her. Good well to get it in anywhere near the setter. So it's just a wrong shot down the line. Quick play. Nice reverse middle for Martinez. Get this ball in where they need it. Well it's out of the system a little bit. Libro takes it. It's a pretty good set to be fair. Here we pass. It's gonna be a free ball. Not what China be hoping for. There's the slide. Oh wow. There's a slide. There's a block. Only has 11 blocks in the competition so far. That's a really important one. Well back to back. Think about on the attack coming into them. Aces this one. She's changed the line completely. Nice comes in. Rodriguez is there. Well that's an interesting way to get that from Martinez. Straight into the block. Still ain't taking one. What a ball. Played two ball there for the Dominican Republic. China come the middle. For the Dominican Republic. Then it becomes an overpass. Martinez tries a short one. And the left hand of Li Yingying. Isolet served down the line. Dropped that ball short. Martinez goes to the left hand side of the corner. Lovely angle. Martinez so strong. 9-10. This one's gonna be pushed short again. This time it was inside. Side out here. Ladies in blue and red. China looks really fast. Here's the chance. Martinez big powerful. But safe from China. Oh an angle. It is in. On to Isolet. Run for the middle. And there it is. Martinez with her 22nd point of the game. Dominican Republic win by three sets to two.