China News Agency, Beijing, September 10th. On September 10th, local time, the Chinese women's basketball team ended their European training and will go to Australia in two batches to start the last stage of adjustment training before the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup.

　　September 10 is the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.

The "Chinese Basketball Team" released news that this family reunion day happened to be the "full moon" day when the Chinese women's basketball team ended its domestic training camp and set off for Europe to start the "full moon" tour.

Within a month, the Chinese women's basketball team had played 7 warm-up matches with the French women's basketball team, the Spanish domestic club team, the Belgian women's basketball team and the Serbian women's basketball team in four places in Europe.

　　Through the warm-up match, the Chinese women's basketball team found problems in training in time, overcame the practical difficulties of long-term closed training and lack of competition with high-level foreign teams, pinpointed the position, and focused on reducing the ability to confront, compete for the ball, and respond on the spot. The gap between the ability and the strong European teams to avoid too many mistakes in the game.

The players also adjusted their mentality before the competition, gained confidence and deepened the tacit understanding between teammates through this overseas training.

　　In preparation for the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup, the Chinese women's basketball team started training and selection in late May.

The two big insiders, Han Xu and Li Yueru, went to the United States one after another to play for the WNBA's New York Liberty and Chicago Sky respectively, but did not participate in the domestic training of the Chinese women's basketball team.

At the end of August, Han Xu and Li Yueru officially returned to the team during the Chinese women's basketball training camp in Serbia.

　　The "Chinese Basketball Team" said that encouraging players to go abroad for higher-level league training is a new idea of ​​the Chinese Basketball Association for talent training.

Han Xu and Li Yueru also gained their own growth during their participation in the WNBA. Their return to the team will bring certain help to the improvement of the overall strength of the Chinese women's basketball team.

However, due to objective reasons such as visas, the two missed the first five warm-up games of the Chinese women's basketball team in Europe, and it will take some time to better complete the running-in with the whole team.

　　It is reported that there is a certain degree of fatigue and injury in the Chinese women's basketball team. The coaching staff and medical security team actively help the players recover by adjusting the content and intensity of training and adequate rehabilitation treatment.

　　According to the plan, the Chinese women's basketball team that has finished the European training will go to Australia in two batches, meet in Sydney on the 12th local time, and then play the last three warm-up matches with Australia, Canada and Mali women's basketball team before the World Cup.

The team's 12-man squad will also be officially determined about 3 days before the start of the World Cup.

　　The 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup will be held in Sydney, Australia from September 22 to October 1.

The Chinese women's basketball team is in Group A with the United States, Belgium, South Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Puerto Rico, and Group B is Australia, France, Canada, Japan, Mali, and Serbia.

　　The top four in each group will advance to the quarter-finals.

According to the grouping situation, there is no serious problem for the Chinese women's basketball team to enter the quarterfinals.

At 15:30 on September 22, Beijing time, the Chinese women's basketball team will usher in the first opponent of the World Cup group stage, South Korea.

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