China
Captain Zhu Ting: I tought it was a great match and we played really well.
No. 6 Gong Xiangyu: Everybody played well on the Azerbaijan side and at the beginning we could not get into our rhythm. Gradually our serve got better and we started blocking more effectively and this enabled us to win the match.
Azerbaijan
Captain Odina Aliyeva: Every day is a lesson for us, so today's match was very important. It was a good experience, especially for our setter. We are going to try to do our best for the next two matches.
Assistant Coach Famil Aghayev: We knew that China were a very strong team. They served well and we could not receive well, so this was a bad point in our play. The first and third sets went quite well because we could keep up with China but in the second set we let them get too far in front early on and we could not catch up.