USA 🇺🇸 vs. China 🇨🇳 - Quarter Final | Highlights | Women's VNL 2026

To get going with the final quarterfinal of the VNL 2026 here in Macau, China. It is China on the right side in the white jerseys, USA. Best opposite of Love last season, best opposite of AU the season before that. Good dig, Hentz underneath it. Eggleston with a nine-point cushion for her team. High ball to the pin, two blockers up. Good hands from Redke and again good reactions. Third time of the night, China find the floor. People watching. Exactly, that's why they pay the big bucks. 2011, USA highly rated right now, but China trying to find a solution and she's been one of them. And it is a good serve. Goes directly on Skinner. Sammity has plenty of space in that deep corner. Other side reversed. Pressure serve for Poulter, that is tight. USA handle it. Now it's a free ball. Poulter takes it. Out of system play and a big stop block and that was a huge opportunity taken by China. China have to manufacture something. Oh, that overload is too good from USA. So tough, particularly with Redke front row. First set point for the USA. China brings in Yifei Fan, but it does not matter. An ace serve is how it ends. USA 25-15 over China. Equal to it. So number two underway as China trying to scrap back in. USA comfortable in the first. USA again putting pressure. Great pickup from Thompson. There's that backcourt we were looking for. Does not land. To the outside, China go deep. Hensville is in action and nothing coming over, but great defense. China now with a one point advantage. Make it two. There's the block we were waiting for. China starting set number two off with a bang. Dana Redke, MVP of the NCAA in 2021. Drops one down the line. Perfect placement on the end line from China. Worrying signs for China. China great spot right now. Both timeouts used by both coaches. Oh, great ball in and there's the result for USA. Two-time NCAA champion at the line. She is aggressive with it. Free ball opportunity USA. To Redke and she makes no mistake. We are tied at 23. Good rotation for USA, but with a blocker serving, would that be exploited? The swing does indeed go cross court and China pick up their first set point. China in a good position. Looks like a substitution call, but too late. It's set point. Can USA stay in it? A high swing. Good touch on the block from China. Looking to take the set and they us up 25-23. It is one set a piece here in this final quarterfinal. It all comes down to this match. It is win or go home for one of these two teams right now. USA chomping at the bit and we start strong. First point on the board in the third set. Asia O'Neill on the 9-8 the lead. USA looking to tie it up. Thompson makes the overpass. Rodriguez stepping into set. Skinner on that inside ball, but the block is closed. Not today says Yuan Yuan. Yuan Yuan reads the situation wonderfully. Henderson gets China in a position to swing deep and they've been looking for corners recently. It's a positive sign for China in that they're not just swinging straight, so not just trying to find the safe option where they feel like it's the best shot. So impressive and China continue to go hot from the end line. There's no touching that. It is a point for China. They are up by two, but USA think there might be something worth challenging. They'll be looking for a net touch. Ricky was pretty keen on this ball. That's the only thing that Shan touched was Ricky's arm. Second set point for China. Up two sets to one here in Macau in the quarterfinals over USA. Eggleston won. Let's see what happens here in the fourth. USA must win this set to stay in the VNL. China looking good. Their defense has stepped up as well. Another long rally unfolding and it ends with a tip. Yuan Yuan dominant. The experience shining through for Yuan Yuan. Just pushes the ball past the block. Lovely slow hand. Short ball. And it's shorter. And that connection again. Skinner drops the serve. Yuan Yuan recycles. Oh, it's coming back from the floor. High pressure serve. High pressure dig. And USA go back to their tried and true. Thompson from the backcourt this time on the right side. Position four attackers from China getting dug with regularity in this set. So USA have made some adjustments. USA have spread themselves a tasty lead. The swing that China was looking for. They are still five points behind, but a couple more like that. Thompson puts pressure on the receiving unit. And so does that block. That's what's been missing in two sets. They've now had three in this final set. Well, not final. Fourth set. Oh, almost another one. Crofty is ready at the net and that brings up the first set. USA second set point. Eggleston is targeted. Opportunity for China to swing. Another good dig. Skinner's there. Thompson. Whistle blown. And USA take the point. They have done it. Here we go. Fifth set underway. China with the first serve. And indeed USA do go to Thompson and it's the off speed that gets it done. Two point advantage. Huge for USA. Good ball in from China. There's the quick one. Reckie says not today. A three point lead is opened up. Big run for USA at the early stage of this set. China will take their first time out. Two points in it. Eggleston on the first. O'Neill goes deep. She wants a touch, but it's not there to be had. Expectation. More movements in the hands of Tongxin. One challenge gone. The non libero libero on court. USA. Thompson going aggressive. There's a block and hence in the defense. Eggleston into hands. Recycled. Going again is Gong and she is loving it. Stop where she wants to hit. Classic middle blockers. Eggleston puts one in for USA. Gong again. She got first match point for China. It's a free ball. Gong steps into set. Big swing coming. No. It's long and USA can breathe. This one's gone way over. Yeah, it has gone way over. You have to go pretty high to beat Reckie. For China. This ball had to go in. It's tight.