On the evening of August 23, the third match day of the 2022 Women's Volleyball Asian Cup Group Stage, the Chinese women's volleyball team swept the host Philippines 3:0, leading in Group A with three consecutive wins and advancing to the quarterfinals in advance.
Yesterday, the "Where did Durant go" drama came to an end. Tsai Chongxin, Nets management and Durant met and decided to continue the partnership, and Durant will remain with the Nets.
In terms of CBA, it is reported that the Shandong high-speed men's basketball team has completed the renewal of the contract with the interior player Zhu Rongzhen and signed a two-year B contract. In the past two seasons, Zhu Rongzhen has been loaned to Liaoning. In addition, Shandong men's basketball team foreign aid Giron Water has also arrived in China and began quarantine.
The Chinese women's volleyball team swept the Philippines 3:0
On August 23, the 2022 Women's Volleyball Asian Cup began the third round of competition in the Philippines. The Chinese team defeated the host Philippines in three consecutive sets to win three consecutive games since the beginning of the match, with scores of 25-16, 25-22 and 25-20 respectively.
This year's Women's Volleyball Asian Cup has a total of 9 teams participating, the Chinese team sent a second-tier lineup to participate, and the first-line main lineup is preparing for the upcoming Women's Volleyball World Championship.
In this Asian Cup, the Chinese team was in the same group as the Philippines, South Korea, Iran and Vietnam, and the Chinese team defeated the South Korean team 3:0 in the first match, and defeated the Vietnamese team 3:2 in the second round.
In history, the Chinese team and the Philippine team have played twice in the 2013 Asian Championship and the 2018 Asian Games, and the Chinese team has won 3:0.
In this campaign, for the Philippine team with insufficient overall strength, The head coach of the Chinese team, Kuang Qi, still pays enough attention. The starting lineup of the Chinese team is Sun Haiping, the main attack Wu Mengjie and Zhuang Yushan, the deputy attack Hu Mingyuan and Cao Tingting, the receiver Zhou Pageong and the free man Xu Jiannan, which is the current main lineup.
Throughout the game, although the strength of the Philippine team and the Chinese team is not on the same level, the Chinese women's volleyball team is not easy to win this game, and before facing the knockout match, it needs to be carefully summarized by the coaching team and all players.
After this round, the Chinese team advanced to the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup with a record of three wins. On August 24, the Chinese team bye, on August 25, 16:00 Beijing time, the Chinese team faced the last opponent in Group A, Iran, and finally determined the quarter-final match against the opponent.
Durant will remain with the Nets
On August 23, the Brooklyn Nets officially announced that Kevin Durant has recently met with the team's senior management again, and he will continue to stay with the team and withdraw his previous trade application.
The Nets issued a statement via official Twitter from team general manager Sean Max.
"Steve Nash and I, along with boss Tsai Chongxin, met yesterday with Kevin Durant and Richie Clareman. We've agreed to continue working together, and we're both going to focus more on basketball itself, working on the same goal: to build a long-term competitive team and make the Nets a championship. ”
Since the opening of the free market, Durant has applied to the Nets for a trade. Most teams, including the Celtics, Raptors and Grizzlies, have made offers to the Nets and have had varying degrees of contact.
But after a series of plots, Durant finally reconciled with the Nets and decided to stay on the team, which also brought the incident to an end.
According to Nets reporter Christian Winfield, the Nets didn't just convince Durant to return for a year, the two sides will continue to work together for a long time. Currently, Durant has a 4-year contract with the Nets.
It is worth mentioning that Durant's retention means that the Nets will still be a contender for the championship, and in the probability of winning the championship in the latest issue, the Nets have soared to the fourth position in the league, behind the Celtics, Bucks and Warriors.
The Shandong men's basketball team completed the renewal of Zhu Rongzhen's contract On August 23, it is reported that the Shandong High-speed Men's Basketball Team has completed the renewal of the contract with the inside player Zhu Rongzhen and signed a two-year B contract. In the past two seasons, Zhu Rongzhen has been loaned to Liaoning.
Zhu Rongzhen performed well during the difficult period of the Liaoning team's internal line in the 2020-2021 season. In the 2021-2022 season, Zhu Rongzhen played 26 games for Liaoning, averaging 6.7 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1 block per game, shooting 49% from two points and shooting 63% from the free throws.
Among them, last season, in the game against Tongxi, he played 20 minutes and had 25 points and 3 rebounds, setting a new personal scoring record.
At the end of last season, Zhu Rongzhen's loan contract ended, and his contract with Shandong will also expire.
Zhu Rongzhen's first choice at that time was to renew his contract with Shandong. For the first three years of his career, he spent time in Shandong and gradually grew up in Shandong. But at the same time, Zhu Rongzhen also received offers from overseas league teams.
After many communications and negotiations, the Shandong team and Zhu Rongzhen reached an agreement on the evening of the 23rd, and the two sides signed a two-year renewal contract. Zhu Rongzhen's return to the Shandong team can bring direct promotion and help to the team's internal line.
In addition to Zhu Rongzhen's contract extension, the Shandong men's basketball team officially announced that foreign aid Giron Water arrived in China yesterday and has now been isolated according to the requirements of epidemic prevention, and will meet with the team after the end of isolation.
Previously, the Shandong men's basketball team used the foreign aid priority renewal right against Gillen Walt, and he will continue to play for Shandong in the new season. Rochester, another foreign player, is scheduled to arrive in September.
The National Youth Men's Basketball Team defeated South Korea 89:74On August 23, the U18 Asian Youth Championship continued. The National Youth Men's Basketball Team defeated the South Korean team 89:74, and their group record was 2 wins and 0 losses, ranking first in the group and successfully advancing to the quarterfinals.
Because the Australian and New Zealand national youth men's basketball teams failed to participate in the Asian Youth Championship, only ten teams were formed. The teams are divided into three groups, of which Groups A and B are three teams and Group C is four teams.
The National Youth Men's Basketball Team is divided into Group B, with Indian and South Korean teams in the same group. According to the promotion rules, the top two teams in the group and the two teams with the highest scores in the three groups advance to the quarterfinals.
After the National Youth Men's Basketball Team defeated India by 40 points in the first game, they have basically locked in the quarterfinals. On the 23rd, the National Youth Men's Basketball Team continued to work hard and defeated the strongest opponent in the same group, the South Korean team, and they won the first place in the group as desired.
In this campaign, Liu Jinyu, Wang Haoran and Liu Lijia of the National Youth Men's Basketball Team each scored 18 points. In addition, the core of the interior line, Yang Hexion, got 7 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists.
Liu Jinyu once again scored the highest score in the team, he belongs to the Guangzhou youth team and is a very good pitcher. At the same time, Wang Haoran and Liu Lijia also have good offensive performances. Of course, the role of Yang Hexon's internal line containment and rebounding cannot be underestimated.
It is precisely with such an internal line that the pitchers of the national youth men's basketball team can blossom more. The next opponent of the National Youth Men's Basketball Team depends on the results of tomorrow's draw.
The Champions League group stage draw is determinedOn Thursday night local time, UEFA will conduct the 2022-2023 Champions League group stage draw ceremony in Istanbul, and the current 4-grade team has been basically determined.
According to UEFA rules, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayern, Paris, AC Milan, Porto, Ajax, Frankfurt are seeded teams, they are Champions League champions, Europa League champions or top-ranked league champions.
Teams in the second bracket are Barca, Liverpool, Atletico, Sevilla, Chelsea, Tottenham, Juventus and Leipzig.
Teams in the third pot include Borussia Dortmund, Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk, Inter, Napoli, Benfica, Sporting Portugal and Bayer Leverkusen.
Teams in the fourth bracket are currently determined to be Marseille, Brugge, Celtic, Pilsen Victory and Maccabi, Haifa.
There are still 3 places to be decided, with Dinamo Zagreb competing for a spot with Bode Shine, Eindhoven competing for a spot with The Wanderers, and Trabzon competing for a spot with Copenhagen.
At present, 29 teams have been identified in the champions league round of 32 this season.
Badminton World Championships National badminton multi-player advances to the round of 16 On August 23, the second day of the Badminton World Championships, The Chinese players played well, except for the men's singles player Lu Guangzu who stopped the second round, the other players successfully advanced to the round of 16.
In the men's singles competition, Shi Yuqi, the runner-up of the 2018 World Championships, defeated Denmark's Jemke to win his second victory since his comeback.
Shi Yuqi's world ranking has dropped to 25th, but he won 21-13, 21-16 against the 11th seed Jemke.
However, Lu Guangzu lost to Chinese Taipei's Wang Ziwei 18-21, 16-21, becoming the only Chinese player to be out since the start of the tournament.
In the women's singles competition, He Bingjiao and Wang Zhiyi, who had a bye in the first round, both ushered in the first game. No. 9 seed He Bingjiao beat the American Wang Yuanli 21-13, 21-7 to face Spain's Marin, who had won three world championships in the next round.
No. 11 seed Wang Zhiyi defeated Denmark's Christopherson 21-15, 21-14, and her next opponent was teammate Han Yue.
In the mixed doubles arena, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong, Wang Yilu/Huang Dongping, Guo Xinwa/Zhang Shuxian all won against the national featherweight players.
Today, The Chinese team's first-round bye at the Tokyo Olympic Women's Singles Champion Chen Yufei, as well as the number one women's doubles duo Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan, will play.
The 14-man squad of the Chinese men's volleyball team at the World Championship was announcedOn the afternoon of August 23, the Chinese Volleyball Association announced the final list of 14 members of the Chinese men's volleyball team to compete in the 2022 World Men's Volleyball Championship. Zhang Jingyin, who just led the team to win the Asian Cup and won the Most Valuable Player, led the game, while the Chinese men's volleyball team Yangtze River regretted missing this tournament due to injury.
A total of 24 teams qualified for the tournament. The Chinese men's volleyball team is divided into Group E with the Italian, Canadian and Turkish men's volleyball teams.
Group A includes Ukraine, Serbia, Tunisia and Puerto Rico, Group B consists of Brazil, Japan, Cuba and Qatar, Group C includes Poland, the United States, Mexico and Bulgaria, Group D consists of France, Slovenia, Germany and Cameroon, and Group F includes Argentina, Iran, the Netherlands and Egypt.
For the group stage, Groups A and C were held in Katowice, Poland, while Groups B, D, E and F were held in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The first stage of the group stage is a single round robin competition, with the top two in each group and the 4 third places with the best results advancing to the round of 16. The second stage is held in the quarterfinals, quarterfinals, semi-finals and finals. Both the semi-finals and the final were held in the Polish city of Katowice.
The 14-member roster of the 2022 Men's Volleyball World Championships Chinese men's volleyball team is: main attack: Zhang Jingyin, Yu Yuantai, Zhang Binglong, Wang Bin, secondary attack: Peng Shikun, Li Yongzhen, Zhang Zhejia, Miao Ruantong, receiver: Zhang Guanhua, Dai Qingyao, second pass: Yu Yaochen, Liu Mao, free man: Yang Yiming, Yang Tianyuan.
At 17:00 Beijing time on August 27, the Chinese men's volleyball team played the first game against Turkey.