The Chinese women's basketball team made its official debut this summer! Looking forward to rewinning the Asian Cup in 10 years
On June 26, the 2023 Women's Basketball Asian Cup will begin, and the Chinese women's basketball team will also make its official debut this summer. At 11:30, the group stage will face Lebanon, the first opponent.
The Chinese women's basketball team has two major competition tasks this summer, the Women's Asian Cup and the Hangzhou Asian Games, so as early as March 31, the women's basketball team assembled in Guangdong to start preparations. For the Asian Cup, the team did not have strict performance requirements, but due to the final decision of FIBA, it had to grade this competition.
According to the previous plan, FIBA will hold the preliminary round of the Paris Olympic qualification tournament in November this year, but finally canceled this competition, and determined that the top four of this Asian Cup can qualify for the women's basketball qualification in February next year, so the Chinese women's basketball team in order to ensure qualification, had to call Han Xu, Yang Liwei, and Li Meng, who played in the WNBA, back to play this Asian Cup, although there are some regrets for the players, but the national team to compete in the Olympics is a big thing, and there is no way.
Compared with the arrangement of three cores, the Chinese women's basketball team went to Europe for training on May 22 after finishing training in Guangdong, but the lack of three cores and Wang Siyu's injury did not have a good record.
In Europe, the women's basketball team narrowly defeated Italy 63-62 in the first game, and then suffered six consecutive defeats. After arriving in Sydney, the team also played the last warm-up game with Australia, also losing by 15 points.
On the whole, the women's basketball team in Europe is a training team, after all, many cores are not there, the victory or defeat is not so important, and for the Asian Cup, compared to last year's World Cup, although Li Yueru, Huang Sijing, Wu Tongtong, etc. are absent due to injury, the overall pressure to get the top four minimum goals is not great.
However, in the history of the Asian Cup in recent years, the Chinese women's basketball team has not won the championship for five times. Since 2013, the Japanese women's basketball team has won five consecutive championships, while China has finished third and third three times in the past five editions, so it can be said that we also need the honor of the championship. This time, the Japanese women's basketball team is not the main force, and Australia has as many as 7 players who play for the WNBA have not returned, so on the whole, the Chinese women's basketball team is completely superior after winning the World Cup Asian Games last year, and should compete for this championship.
For Lebanon, the first opponent on the 26th, the strength is limited, the Chinese women's basketball team has only played the opponent once in the official match, or the distant 2011 Asian Championship, when China won 79-58. So, this time, it's not a problem to easily win the opener.
【China Women's Basketball List】
No. 4 Li Yuan, No. 5 Wang Siyu, No. 6 Yang Shuyu, No. 7 Yang Liwei, No. 8 Jin Weina, No. 9 Li Meng, No. 10 Zhang Ru, No. 11 Luo Xindi, No. 12 Pan Zhenqi, No. 13 Gao Song, No. 14 Tang Yu, No. 15 Han Xu
【Women's basketball warm-up record】(both Beijing time)
May 25 Chinese women's basketball team 63-62 Italy
May 27 China Women's Basketball 60-76 Spain
June 3 Chinese women's basketball 63-76 France
June 4 Chinese women's basketball team 50-81 France
June 9 Chinese women's basketball team 55-90 Belgium
June 11 Chinese women's basketball team 81-89 Belgium
June 13 Chinese women's basketball team 55-86 Serbia
On June 22, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to Australia by 15 points
【Women's Basketball Asian Cup】
June 26, 11:30 China vs Lebanon
June 27, 15:00 New Zealand vs China
June 28, 15:00 China vs South Korea
June 30 Rematch
July 1 Semi-finals, qualifying
July 2 Final, third and fourth place