FIBA announced the updated world ranking after the end of the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup qualifiers, and the Chinese women's volleyball team ranked 7th, only 5.9 points away from the 6th place in front of the French women's basketball team, and is expected to continue to climb after the World Cup. The U.S. women's basketball team is far ahead of Spain in second place by 138.2 points.
The Chinese women's basketball team traveled to Serbia this month and played exceptionally well in the World Cup qualifiers, and qualified for the Australian Women's Basketball World Cup in September without suspense. In the first game, the Chinese women's basketball team faced the African powerhouse Nigeria team, and ushered in a 90-76 easy victory to usher in the opening, the second game won the Mali women's basketball team also from Africa 84-64, locking the right to the World Cup in advance, and the last game faced the top four French women's basketball team at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese team fully blossomed at the offensive end, hitting the French women's basketball team 103-70, thus ranking among the top 12 of the World Cup with the first place in this group.
Thanks to the consecutive victories in the World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese women's basketball team continues to stabilize in the top 8 of the world rankings, the specific rankings are as follows: 1.The United States 823.9 points 2. Spain 685.7 points 3.Australia 678 points 4.Canada 661.6 points 5 Belgium 651.2 points 6.France 637.7 points 7.China 631.8 points 8.Japan 606.1 points 9.Turkey 591.4 points 10.Serbia 589.5 points
Among the world's top 10 strong teams, not all teams have successfully qualified for the World Cup, the world's no. 2 European traditional strong team Spain women's basketball team said goodbye to this year's World Cup in advance, because the Spanish women's basketball team lost to the Serbian women's basketball team in the 1/4 final of the European Women's Basketball Championship last year, and lost to the Russian women's basketball team in the competition for 5-8 places, and finally the worst in 10 years with the 7th place, because the top 6 of the European Championship qualified for the World Cup qualifiers, The Spanish women's basketball team eventually missed the World Cup early, and perhaps the world ranking of the Spanish women's basketball team after the World Cup will be surpassed by the Australian women's basketball team.
The Chinese women's basketball team ranked second in the recent World Cup predicted combat strength list, second only to the powerful American women's basketball team, in fact, before the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team was also a strong team that was optimistic about the outside world, after all, the women's basketball girls also defeated the Spanish women's basketball team in the Tokyo Olympic Qualifying Tournament, and really arrived at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the young Chinese women's basketball team still suffered a loss of pressure and inexperience, and lost to the Serbian women's basketball team 70-77 in the 1/4 finals and did not qualify for the semifinals. For the World Cup held in Australia in September, the Chinese women's basketball team was once again optimistic about the strength of the card, but this time it was necessary to learn the lessons of the Tokyo Olympic Games and try not to be disrupted by the rhythm of the opponent.
The Women's Basketball World Cup reduced the number of participating teams, from the original 16 teams to 12 teams, the game was divided into two groups according to the world ranking lottery, each group of 6 teams played a round robin, and the top 4 in the group advanced to the top 8 for a 1/4 elimination match. The Chinese women's basketball team now has Li Yueru, Huang Sijing, Han Xu and other young and powerful top players, the group out of the top 8 is not difficult, the key game should still be 1/4 final, the opponent will basically be a European and American strong team probability is larger, many European and American players are playing in the WNBA, even in the European League has accumulated a lot of rich experience, such as Belgium, France, Serbia and other teams have veterans to press the team, experienced veterans for the situation more handy. The Chinese women's basketball team has not won a medal in the World Series since the 1994 World Championships, and hopes that the Chinese women's basketball team can use a medal in Australia to prove its strength.