Chengdu, August 30 (Xinhua) -- Sichuan Yuanda Meile Club announced on the 30th that women's basketball players Han Xu and Wu Di officially joined the Sichuan women's basketball team.
So far, with Li Meng, Sun Mengran, who joined last week, and Shao Ting and Gao Song, who were introduced last season, the Sichuan women's basketball team has six national players, becoming a well-deserved "giant" in the new season of the WCBA.
The picture shows basketball players Han Xu (left) and Wu Di (right)
Born in 1999, Han Xu is 2.07 meters tall and weighs 96 kilograms, and plays as a center forward. At the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, Han Xu made 7 appearances for the Chinese women's basketball team and won the championship with the team. In July 2021, Han Xu represented the Chinese women's basketball team in the Tokyo Olympic Games, helping the Chinese women's basketball team to advance to the quarterfinals. In the 2020-2021 season, Han Xu won the WCBA "Scoring King" and "Block King" at the same time with 21.2 points, 8.9 rebounds and 2.2 blocks. At present, Han Xu has made 74 appearances in the league, averaging 16.8 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2 blocks per game.
Han Xu, who is only 22 years old this year, has excellent physical condition, flexible footsteps, strong defensive ability, and accurate shooting, and Xu Limin, head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, has said that Han Xu is young, energetic and can look forward to the future.
Born in 1993, Wu Di is 1.83 meters tall and weighs 74 kg, and plays as a striker. In 2015, Wu Di was named MVP at WCUBA and was selected for the women's national basketball team in the same year. In 2016, she participated in the Rio Olympic Games with the Chinese women's basketball team. In 2019, Wu Di and his teammates won the FIBA 3X3 Basketball World Cup championship with an impressive result of 7 victories, and also won the ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games for the Chinese 3X3 women's basketball team.
In September 2016, Wu Di began his career in WCBA. At present, he has made 114 league appearances and averaged 11.9 points and 3.4 rebounds per game.
The club said that it hopes that Han Xu and Wu Di can quickly integrate into the team, inherit and carry forward the Sichuan women's basketball team's tenacious and tenacious fighting belief in never accepting defeat, and strive to create new achievements with their teammates.
Source: Xinhua News Agency