On the evening of the 26th, China women’s basketball, who had a warm-up match in Europe, defeated Spain women’s basketball with 60 to 76. Gao Song scored the highest 14 points in the team. This is the second game that Chinese women’s basketball have played overseas. They had previously won Italy women’s basketball 63-62 in the first warm-up match. According to the plan, China women’s basketball will compete with several European strong teams during this overseas training. They are fully preparing for the Asian Cup launched at the end of June.
In order to fully prepare for the Asian Cup that will start next month and thus qualify for the Olympic qualifier, China women’s basketball will play 9 warm-up matches with teams such as Spain, France, Belgium, Serbia and Australia. These warm-up opponents have strong strength and high game value, which will help China women’s basketball to further run into the lineup and let the main players gradually find the game status. Meanwhile, Zheng Wei, the coach of China women’s basketball, hopes that Captain Yang Liwei can participate in some warm-up matches with the team next month. Previously, the spark team had already cut Yang Liwei. Yang Liwei is currently training in the United States and taking part in the trial training of some WNBA teams. Yang Liwei hopes to continue chasing WNBA dreams after finishing the Asian Cup.
In addition, Li Meng and Han Xu, the players in WNBA, also plan to meet with China women’s basketball in June. However, they may not be able to catch up with China’s women’s basketball European warm-up match. As far as I know, Li Meng and Han Xu are handling private passports. Previously, they all handled official passport with the team.
China’s women’s basketball team is not complete at present, but they still hope to run into the team and find the game status through these warm-up matches. In addition, Wang Siyu, the main defender who has returned to the team, is still in the stage of injury recovery, and she still needs some time to return to the game. But Wang Siyu is expected to play in the Asian Cup.