China 🇨🇳 vs. Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 - Highlights | Women's World Championships 2025

Here we go in Chiang Mai, Rob Snook alongside Claire Hanna with the call. The final match in this building for the World Championship. And here comes the Dominican Republic serving. It will be De La Rosa and we're underway. China in red, Dominicans in the dark jerseys. What a dig by Castillo. Braylor wins 33 when they met in the VNL. Hey, I like the eagerness from the Dominicans. So 1-1 early on. Pena-Isabel has to play that up high. Here's Braylon, rips it down the line. At this World Championship, but when it comes to the bigger picture, they've really struggled getting into the top four. They're mostly up. Okay, we make the next run. Is this the year they make a difference? Yeah, that's a good question. What happens here tonight might have a rocky answer. Here's Zhuang Yushan, the 22-year-old outside hitter with a nice rip. Zhuang, 23 points against Mexico, 17 against Colombia. Dominican Republic's captain and leading scorer in the game and the tournament. Braylon Martinez serving. That's wrong. De La Rosa calmly goes over, gets it to Guyla. That's a tough set. Here's the back row attack. Whoa, and it's too good. Isabel was just too easy to read. Guo gets a full swing on that. It was easily picked up by China. Isabel again trying to tip. Zhuang, nice, by Guyla. And Isabel, and that was a pancake dig. Here's Wu, scoring. And are they going to challenge, or is that a full-on pancake? This is such a hard dig. That pancake up and then Wu goes so hard. Here's Gerneri Martinez. Finally, an out-of-system play. They're going to tack on it anyway from the pipe. Blocking with Wu, scoring. It's set point, China. 15 serving, 24. Zhuang blocked. Middle attack. Nobody blocking. And that's it, the first set in the books. That they are here to make a run of it at the World Championship. They want good standings. It was in their last match against Columbia. They lost the second set. And their coach, Zhao You, he really, let's say, read from the right rule, if you will. He kind of took a piece out of them after the set because he was really disappointing their focus. Here we go, set number two. China serving to Dominican Republic. De La Rosa sets it up for Brady. And that's a good start. Zhuang. No surprises. Isabel. Here's Gaila. Blocked. Covered by De La Rosa. Brenda Castillo sets it up. And down it goes on the block from Gao. De La Rosa. Whoa, brought way inside. Watch this. Martinez cannot close the block. And there's a seam and just, whoa, sneaks it through. Now serve. Pushes Dominican Republic back. They go attack through the middle. Ingenieri can't score. Drew can score. Again, her team leading ninth point. Drew missing it, missing that block opportunity. Dominican Republic needs to get out of this rotation right now. Can't do it on that swing from Braylon Martinez. Here's Zhuang. Popped up by Braylon. Pushed over by Gonzalez. De La Rosa. He's telling her, no, I'm going to save you the run. You weren't going to get there. Braylon decides not to swing again. There's a lot of that happening on the Dominican Republic. Matos wants to swing, but this time she gets shut down. Matos. Here's Tapia from the back row. Different use of her. There's the block. Great save by Wu. Castillo knows how to save balls as well. Here's Tapia. Huang with a great dig. From a standing position. Castillo gets there and gets it into a decent spot, but nobody wants to swing. Here comes Zhuang. That's going to get the point down the line. Her positioning is unbelievable. Caraballo has come off the bench to serve. Zhuang. And pretty good effort by Braylon Martinez. Camila De La Rosa. Played at Florida A&M. Here's Zhuang. Took something off it. It's too tight to the net. And it's a point for China. 21 serving 23. Zhuang. Good take from Matos. Shut down. Wu and Huang together. Shut the door. Zhuang serves it at Matos. Makes her back push back. Braylon tips. Huang with the back bump set to Wu. Kept alive. Castillo. Tapia. And it's going to end with the ball on the Dominican side. And China's got a two sets to nothing lead. Is there a comeback in the Dominican Republic? They might be able to take advantage. Yes, they can. Oh, my. Face it. On both sides of the net, it's a broken play. And instead of just free-balling it over, she... Looking for a better pass here. They get it. Here's Braylon. Yes. Leads to the great swing. The opposite one should take the middle. Pick your poison, I guess. Long serve. Good take from Braylon. Scores again. Another O.T. Already three times in her career, best scorer in the Chinese League. She's only 22. Here's Braylon Martinez. Yeah, that's going to score another one. She's starting to catch a little fire here. And right now, they'll have to do it without Brenda Castillo on the floor. Pancake dig comes from Carabao. She does the setting here for Tapia. De La Rosa now goes back to Tapia, tries to tip. Or to tap, if you will. Martinez up. De La Rosa. Matos. Recycle. Carabao. Tapia. Strong. Whoa. Out. Touch. No. Oh, yes. Trying to make her full comeback, and she's serving for the match. 24-16, China. Off the top of the net, Braylon takes it. This is tight. Pop back up. China comes from the other side for Zhuang. Brenda Castillo sets. Gaila tips. Braylon Martinez blocked by Castillo already. Here's Gaila. That's going to score one point at a time. Dominican Republic, 17-24. They're still chasing, trying to get one point at a time. Zhuang wins it. They win the game in a sweep. They win the pool, three sets, three matches to none, and get all the points you can get. And they have one pool F, and they will go on to face France in the next round.