{"id":882620,"date":"2026-09-06T23:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882620\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T23:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:36:23","slug":"china-get-fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup-campaign-back-on-track-as-italy-give-us-a-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882620\/","title":{"rendered":"China get Fiba Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup campaign back on track as Italy give US a scare"},"content":{"rendered":"

China used their considerable height to battle past \u2060the Czech Republic \u206074-70 in an overtime thriller \u2060at the Fiba Women\u2019s World Cup on Sunday, with the New York Liberty\u2019s nearly 2.13-metre-tall (7 foot) centre Han Xu\u2019s double-double making the difference.<\/p>\n

In a later match, the United States survived their toughest test at the tournament in two decades with a 55-52 win over Italy, with Jackie Young scoring 10 points.<\/p>\n

Han powered China to the comeback win with 22 points \u200cand 14 rebounds to get their campaign back on track, after a demoralising 94-61 opening defeat by the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel so proud of my teammates and coach,\u201d Han said, after her team recovered from a five-point deficit with less than 30 seconds left on the \u2060clock to force the overtime. \u201cEven in the last quarter, we lost six points but \u200cwe never gave up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Han had put China level at 53-53 in the final quarter after her team had trailed for most of the game.<\/p>\n

\"ZhangZhang Ziyu had a tougher time in her second match of the tournament. Photo: AP<\/p>\n

Eli\u0161ka Joklov\u00e1 put the Czechs 64-59 up with 27 seconds left only for Luo Xinyu to respond with a three-pointer and Yang Shuyu to level at 64-64 with three seconds to go \u2013 after Joklov\u00e1 missed two free throws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China used their considerable height to battle past \u2060the Czech Republic \u206074-70 in an overtime thriller \u2060at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,79354,420565,98615,512,586,451913,108113,244832,2328,108692,451911,4117,10728,451912,2016,85],"class_list":["post-882620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-berlin","tag-caitlin-clarke","tag-cecilia-zandalasini","tag-china","tag-czech-republic","tag-eliska-joklova","tag-fiba-womens-world-cup","tag-han-xu","tag-italy","tag-jackie-young","tag-luo-xinyu","tag-mali","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-olbis-andre","tag-russia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}