The women’s game of the professional volleyball “Dodram 2024-2025 V League,” which is on the verge of a halfway point, is being compressed into “two-tier, two-tier, and three-tier.”
With two games to go in the first half, Incheon Heungkuk Life Insurance (14 wins, 2 losses, 40 points) and Suwon Hyundai Engineering & Construction (12-4, 37 points) ranked first and second, establishing a two-way system. Daejeon Chung Kwan-jang (29 points) and Hwaseong IBK Industrial Bank (28 points) are competing for the spring volleyball match.
The “youngest” Gwangju Pepper Savings Bank (16 points), Gimcheon Korea Expressway Corporation (12 points), and Seoul GS Caltex (6 points), which has been mired in a 12-game losing streak, are at the bottom.
The top three spots are similar to last season’s, and only Heungkuk Life Insurance and Hyundai Engineering & Construction have changed their leadership positions. The third-ranked Jeong Kwan-jang is threatening the two powerhouses with his six consecutive wins, while the fourth-ranked IBK is aiming to advance to the post season, up one notch from the previous year.
Experts predict that the game will continue in the second half of this season. However, Heungkuk Life Insurance, which won 14 consecutive games, the most by a team since the opening of the season, suffered its first consecutive defeat of the season due to knee injury of Tutku, one of the pillars of its team’s offense, and its challenge is to overcome it.
It is fortunate that Heungkuk Life Insurance’s last opponents in the first half are the lower teams Korea Expressway Corporation and GS Caltex, but overcoming this is the key to the leading Mercury as native giant Kim Yeon-kyung is also feeling tired in the absence of Tutku.
Hyundai Engineering & Construction, which suffered a slow rise due to losses to IBK and Jeong Kwan-jang after losing the first and second rounds to leading Heungkuk Life Insurance, has reorganized its battle lines and is on the rise again. 메이저놀이터
In order for Hyundai Engineering & Construction to not lag behind in the leading competition with Heungkuk Life Insurance, and to beat the chasing Jeonggwanjang and IBK, it is necessary for both Jung Ji-yoon and Moma to display their undulating skills. Fortunately, Go Ye-rim’s recent improvement is a boon.
The third-place fight between Jeong Kwan-jang and IBK, who are competing for the playoffs, is expected to continue in the second half.
Since last year, Jeong Kwan-jang, who has been threatening top teams by showing his backside with his height and stability of air and water power, is looking beyond the post as Bukirich and Mega Double Four are gaining power.
IBK, which has emerged as an “ambush” by maintaining its steady power this season, is also showing good performance with Victoria’s struggle, but it is said that it is worth playing spring volleyball for the first time in a long time if the setter instability and native strikers work hard.
It is estimated that the women’s ranking competition, which is adding interest as the game continues, will heat up the winter court even more.
