On May 12, Beijing time, the Chinese basketball team officially announced that the Chinese women's basketball team will play two warm-up games with the Japanese women's basketball team, the strongest opponent in Asia, on June 5 and June 7.
"On June 5th and June 7th, the Chinese women's basketball team will play against the Asian rival Japanese women's basketball team in the ancient city of Xi'an. In the 2024 Chinese women's basketball series warm-up matches, more games will be announced soon! In this summer with the Olympics, the Chinese women's basketball team looks forward to your support and shouting! The Chinese basketball team wrote.
In the finals of two important events in 2023, the Chinese women's basketball team has won the Women's Basketball Asian Cup finals and the Hangzhou Asian Games finals with a 2-point advantage twice in a row, regaining the women's basketball Asian Cup championship and defending the Asian Games gold medal after 12 years.
The Chinese women's basketball team will participate in the Paris Olympics this summer, and the Chinese women's basketball team is in Group A, with Serbia women's basketball team, Spain women's basketball team, and Puerto Rico women's basketball team.
The goal of the Chinese women's basketball team in this Olympic Games is to win four medals, and it is undoubtedly very valuable to play two warm-up games with the Japanese women's basketball team in early June, after all, the strength of the Japanese women's basketball team is extremely strong.
The Chinese women's basketball team previously announced a list of 17 people for training, but at present, Li Yueru cannot return to the team for the time being, and the remaining 16 people will participate in the warm-up match with the Japanese women's basketball team.
Li Yuan, Pan Zhenqi, Zhang Ru, Sun Mengran (Inner Mongolia)
Wang Siyu, Han Xu, Li Meng, Tang Ziting (Sichuan)
Huang Sijing, Yang Liwei, Yang Shuyu (Guangdong)
Zheng Ming, Tang Yu (Beijing)
Luo Xinqi, Jin Weina (Jiangsu)
Wu Tung Tong (Shanxi)
Li Yueru (Los Angeles Sparks, temporarily still playing in the WNBA in the United States)