{"id":15219,"date":"2023-06-28T18:52:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=15219"},"modified":"2023-06-28T18:52:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:52:58","slug":"china-overcome-south-korea-to-reach-womens-basketball-asia-cup-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2023\/06\/28\/china-overcome-south-korea-to-reach-womens-basketball-asia-cup-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"China overcome South Korea to reach Women\u2019s Basketball Asia Cup Semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>China overcome South Korea to reach Women\u2019s Basketball Asia Cup Semifinal <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>China overcome South Korea with a tense 87-81 overtime victory on Wednesday to book a spot in the semifinals of the FIBA Women\u2019s Basketball Asia Cup in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>China were pushed to the limit by an energetic South Korean team, who have claimed a record 12 titles, before recording their third straight win to top Group A.<\/p>\n<p>The result also means that China have secured a berth to the 2024 Paris Olympic Qualifying tournament, as the top four ranked teams in the Asia Cup advance.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea finished third in Pool A and will meet either Australia or Japan in the knockout stage on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>China were superbly led by stars Han Xu, who scored 33 points and 11 rebounds, and Li Meng, with 26 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea came out of the blocks spectacularly with their fast-paced style rattling a cold-shooting China.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea surged to an 11-point lead early before China fought back to reduce the margin to 38-32 at halftime with Han Xu keeping them afloat with 15 points and 7 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>China rediscovered their rhythm after the long break with a Han bucket at the rim giving them the lead midway through the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>But South Korea responded with 10 straight points to regain the initiative before China again hit back in this nerve-jangling contest.<\/p>\n<p>China appeared to be overrunning their opponents with a 12-4 run to start the fourth quarter much to the delight of Chinese fans in the stands.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean players showed their tenacity with a bucket from Lee Kyung Eun sending the game into overtime before China finally outlasted their gallant opponent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China overcome South Korea to reach Women\u2019s Basketball Asia Cup Semifinal China overcome South Korea with a tense 87-81 overtime victory on Wednesday to book a spot in the semifinals of the FIBA Women\u2019s Basketball Asia Cup in Sydney. China were pushed to the limit by an energetic South Korean team, who have claimed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2305,2299],"tags":[2463,3062,3064,3063,3061],"class_list":["post-15219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","category-world","tag-china","tag-fiba","tag-south-korea","tag-sydney","tag-womens-basketball-asia-cup"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15222,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15219\/revisions\/15222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}