Zhu Ting to sit out National Games as wrist injury that ended her Olympics resurfaces again
- ‘Volleyball queen’s provincial team coach says the star requires surgery
China’s “volleyball queen” Zhu Ting will sit out the rest of the National Games because of a persistent wrist injury, the coach of her provincial team said on Thursday.
“We should let her have a rest,” Jiao Shuai, the Henan head coach, told the media after the first women’s volleyball match of the Games.
The announcement means China’s celebrated outside hitter will not have played a single match in the National Games.
In the Thursday game between Henan and Shanghai, Zhu sat on the sidelines with a bandage around her right wrist and did not play for her home province. Henan lost to Shanghai 0-3 in a game that Jiao said Henan performed “normally”.
Zhu injured her wrist in 2017, when she was playing for VakifBank SK in the Turkish Super Cup, according to An Jiajie, a coach with the Chinese national team. Wrist injuries have resurfaced for Zhu in recent years.