The 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup draw ceremony was held in Sydney, Australia. In the end, the Chinese women's basketball team, which entered the women's basketball World Cup as the first team, was divided into Group A together with the United States, Belgium, South Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina women's basketball team, and a pending team. According to the arrangement, this pending team, which is not limited by region, will be determined by FIBA from among the teams participating in the Washington/Santo Domingo Regional Qualifiers.
The Women's Basketball World Cup will be held in Sydney, Australia from September 22 to October 1 this year, and the group stage will be divided into two groups of six teams each, and after the single round robin game in the group, the top four of each group will directly advance to the quarterfinals.
Newly designed FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Trophy
In the 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Qualifier Group B Belgrade Division that ended in mid-February, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated nigeria, Mali and France women's basketball teams respectively, and won the ticket to the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup with a record of winning the first place in the group in three games. Although the women's basketball girls suffered the impact of the epidemic when they returned home, some players were infected, but on February 27, the nucleic acid tests of the members of the Chinese women's basketball team were all negative.
According to the rules of the group draw of this women's basketball World Cup, the host Australia and the Tokyo Olympic champion U.S. women's basketball team will not be in a group, and the first team will not have a team from the same continent, so the Chinese women's basketball team has been determined to be in a group with the U.S. women's basketball team before the draw begins. In the second draw, there can be no more than two teams from the same continent, so after taking the lead in drawing the Korean women's basketball team, the Chinese team is also sure that it will not meet the Japanese women's basketball team in the group stage.
It can be said that being able to be divided into Group A is a good luck for the Chinese women's basketball team, the Serbian women's basketball team that previously blocked the Chinese women's basketball team from the top four of the Olympic Games, and the Japanese women's basketball team that defeated us in the final of the 2021 Women's Basketball Asian Cup, these two teams known as the "bitter lord" of the Chinese women's basketball team have been divided into Group B. Looking at the remaining teams in the same group, in addition to the world's no. 1 U.S. women's basketball team, after the Tokyo Olympic Games group stage victory over the Belgian women's basketball team, the Chinese women's basketball team reached the milestone of the first Olympic group victory in team history to enter the knockout round, and the women's basketball Asian Cup semi-final 24-point victory over South Korea also proved the strength between the two teams.
This undoubtedly gives the Chinese women's basketball team more fault tolerance in the group stage, and at the same time has more physical ability to cause as much pressure as possible on the American women's basketball team. In the latest edition of the FIBA strength list released in February, the Chinese women's basketball team ranked second after the American women's basketball team, FIBA officially believes that more competition experience makes this women's basketball team more and more terrible, they fully have the ability to get on the podium.
Although the former coach Xu Limin has retreated to the second line, and the veteran Shao Ting has faded out of the national team, under the leadership of the new coach Zheng Wei, Li Meng and Huang Sijing have taken on the heavy responsibility of attacking and defending both ends of the team, coupled with the performance of the offensive core Li Yueru and the control ability of defender Wang Siyu, the Current Chinese women's basketball team has become quite mature. This women's basketball World Cup, the Chinese women's basketball team is not only aimed at impacting the podium, as the main force of the Paris Olympic cycle, when Li Meng, Wang Siyu, Li Yueru, etc. will usher in the golden age of professional players in this cycle, which is also the ultimate goal of the Chinese women's basketball team!
In the 2018 Women's Basketball World Cup in Spain, the Chinese women's basketball team won the sixth place to tie the best record in the World Cup in 24 years, and the most impressive thing in that competition was nothing more than in the 5-8 qualifying game, in the case of the most 16 points behind Canada, and finally achieved a 76-71 victory over the opponent, compared to the four-year strong young Chinese women's basketball team, we definitely have reason to believe that today's women's basketball team can bring us more surprises!
