Kim Yeon-kyung, Pearl Pearl in V-League comeback … Super Rookie Erhun is slow
“World star” Kim Yeon-kyung (34, Heungkuk Life Insurance), who returned to the V-League after two years, made a strong comeback in front of the fans who filled the stadium.
Kim Yeon-kyung led the team’s offense in the first game of the season against the 2022-2023 Dodram V League Women’s Pepper Savings Bank held at Incheon Samsan World Gymnasium on 25 and won a fixed score of 3-0 (25- 16 25- 16 25-16).
Kim Yeon-kyung, who played for Heungkuk Life Insurance in the 2020-2021 season and moved up to the Chinese league, returned to the V-League this season and flew into the return match that day.
Kim Yeon-kyung, who came onto the pitch with the unilateral support of the home crowd, was a bit sluggish in the first set.
As if her body wasn’t relaxed, she didn’t show regular breathing with setter Dasol Kim.
However, Kim Yeon-kyung merged into the team after the middle of the first set and played an active role in karate.
Kim Yeon-kyung shone on the side of the winners.
At the end of the second half at 15-12, he brought the flow of the game by connecting the high ball to a touchout.
It was a difficult ball to manage, but he scored with skillful play.
He also blew himself up in defense.
In 22-15, he kicked opposing team Lee Han-bi’s spike from behind and helped teammate Jelena Mrazenovic (registered name: Yelena) score.
In the first set 24-16, he completely destroyed the opposing defense line with a strong spike from the center back.
Kim Yeon-kyung, who was completely relaxed, showed her skills in the second set.
In 14-13, he turned and attacked diagonally, and in 15-13 he hit a strong spike that broke the block of the opposing team’s main team, Nia Kai Reed (Nia Reed).
Kim Yeon-kyung’s attack continued.
In 16-13 he tried to score with an outrageous push and then immediately launched an open attack on the opponent’s field, accumulating four consecutive points.
Heungkuk Life, who played a one-way match amid Kim Yeon-kyung’s performance, easily managed to score 3 points by giving foreign player Yelena a break in the third set.
Kim Yeon-kyung scored a very high attacking success rate of 71.43% by scoring 18 points, the highest for both teams.
Teammate Da-eun Kim contributed 14 points and Yelena 10 points.
Manager Kwon Soon-chan, who took the helm of Heungkuk Life Insurance this season, won her women’s V-League debut.
Yeom Er-hung (18), the Pepper Savings Bank “super rookie” who had raised expectations, was lazy, revealing the problem of lack of experience.
Er-Hung, a naturalized Mongolian player and Korea’s tallest player (194.5cm), returned to the bench after playing inaccurately, such as failing to connect the time difference attack with a regular shot in half of the first set.
Er-Hung, who joined Pepper Savings Bank as the top pick in this year’s draft, drew attention in the match against world star Yeon-Kyung Kim, but the skill gap was huge.
Meanwhile, a total of 70 journalists and 4,345 spectators gathered at the Incheon Samsan World Gymnasium on this day to represent Kim Yeon-kyung’s great interest.
/ yunhap news
