Beautiful Japanese female volleyball player causes a stir at the world tournament

(Dan Tri) - Mayu Ishikawa is considered the soul of the Japanese women's volleyball team, making a great contribution to helping the home team overcome strong opponents to enter the semi-finals of the 2025 Women's Volleyball World Championship.

"The Women's Volleyball World Cup witnessed the superb plays of captain and main striker Mayu Ishikawa, who excelled in both offense and defense and is Japan's new generation goddess after 15 years," Japanese newspaper Tver praised star Mayu Ishikawa of the Japanese women's volleyball team after making a great contribution to helping the home team reach the semi-finals of the tournament taking place in Thailand.

Mayu Ishikawa with an impressive attack against the Netherlands in the quarter-finals (Photo: Volleyball World).

Despite only possessing a modest height of 174cm, Mayu Ishikawa has broken the notion that volleyball is mainly about height, instead technical level and sharp thinking are the key factors.

Mayu Ishikawa's most talked about match was Japan's comeback against Ukraine in the group stage, when the Asian representative was down 2 sets but still fought back to win 3-2.

In this match, Mayu Ishikawa surprised the world when she had 65 attacks and scored 29 points (the highest score of the match) to open the comeback victory for her team.

Mayu Ishikawa's bright smile in the dramatic victory over the Netherlands (Photo: Volleyball World).

"Mayu Ishikawa is definitely the soul of the Japanese team", "Mayu Ishikawa's indomitable spirit in the crucial moments of this match is everything", "The best performance ever", "She is always there when the team needs her", "She is the queen", those are the compliments on social networks for the striker born in 2000.

Notably, the homepage of the Volleyball World Federation also gave many compliments to the 25-year-old player.

"Ace and captain Mayu Ishikawa - is currently second in the list of players with the most points so far. She has scored 99 points (10 points less than the French team's ace Helena Cazaute who was eliminated) and with two more matches to go in Thailand, Ishikawa is now the closest to being the top scorer at the end of the tournament," commented Volleyball World .

At 25 years old, Mayu Ishikawa is considered the "new generation goddess" of the Japanese women's volleyball team (Photo: Volleyball World).

In the quarter-final match against the Netherlands, although Mayu Ishikawa was not the top scorer in the match (she scored 25 points, 2 points less than her teammate Yukiko Wada), Ishikawa was definitely the most complete offensive and defensive player. In addition to scoring points from attack, Ishikawa successfully saved the ball 24 times in this match, equal to the best defensive players on the team such as Seki or Kojima.

If she continues to win in the semi-finals to reach the final, Mayu Ishikawa will have the opportunity to break records in the tournament such as most points scored for the team (currently 10 points behind Helena Cazaute), best attacker (8 points behind Helena Cazaute), best receiver (56 points, 8 points behind Helena Cazaute), most ace served (6 points, 4 points behind Poland's Martyna Czyrnianska), best passer (59 passes, 10 passes behind Florien Reesink of the Netherlands).

Therefore, the semi-final match between Japan and Türkiye taking place tonight (September 6) is worth watching, when volleyball fans around the world will follow the impressive performance of Mayu Ishikawa and her teammates of the team from the land of the rising sun.

2025 Volleyball World Cup Semi-Finals

15:30 September 6: Japan - Türkiye

7:30 p.m. September 6: Italy - Brazil

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