China News Service, Beijing, September 18th. On the 18th, the official blog of the Chinese Basketball Team announced the 12-man roster to play in the Women’s Basketball Asian Cup. The team’s head coach Xu Limin said that he hopes to make full use of the opportunities of international competitions to let young players get exercise. .

Data map: On the evening of July 30th, the Tokyo Olympic Women's Basketball team continued. The first Chinese women's basketball team to win against Australia.

After four quarters of fierce competition, the Chinese team won 76:74 narrowly, achieved two consecutive victories and advanced to the quarterfinals.

The picture shows the women's basketball players celebrating their victory.

Image source: Visual China

  The 12 National People's Congress list includes Yang Liwei, Li Yuan, Wang Siyu, Wu Tongtong, Zhang Ru, Li Meng, Pan Zhenqi, Huang Sijing, Yang Hengyu, Li Yueru, Han Xu, and Li Yifan.

Compared with the previous lineup for the Tokyo Olympics, Yang Hengyu and Li Yifan were selected this time, while Shao Ting and Sun Mengran were not included in the list.

  Chinese women’s basketball coach Xu Limin said, “The roster has changed. One is that Shao Ting and Sun Mengran are a little older and the injury issues are considered, and the other is to give young right-age players more opportunities to exercise in intercontinental competitions.”

  Xu Limin introduced that during the epidemic period, the teams had fewer international competitions. It is necessary to make full use of this opportunity to give some young players with development potential more exercise.

  In the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's basketball team won the fifth place. Since then, the team participated in the National Games as a joint team and won the championship.

Data map: On August 4, local time, the head coach of the Chinese team Xu Limin and others arranged tactics.

On the same day, in the women's basketball quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's basketball team lost 70:77 to the Serbian women's basketball team and stopped in the quarterfinals.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan

  "After the Tokyo Olympics, the team was in a period of fatigue, and the previous stage of the competition was not good. In the final finals of the National Games, the entire team slowly adjusted the team to a better team through training and competition. The state of competition." Xu Limin said.

  Xu Limin said: "The team’s specific goal in the Asian Cup is to play well in every game, adjust the competitive state of each athlete to the best, and reflect the usual training content. Everyone wants to compete for the championship, first of all to complete the entry The top four (the goal) will lay the foundation for the World Cup window in February next year and the final stage of the future World Cup."

  The 29th Women's Basketball Asian Cup will be held in Amman, Jordan. According to the schedule, from September 27th to 29th, Beijing time, the Chinese women's basketball team will face the Philippines, Chinese Taipei and Australia.

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