{"id":885262,"date":"2026-09-09T04:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885262\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T04:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:48:15","slug":"basketball-japan-fails-to-reach-world-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885262\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball: Japan fails to reach World Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN &#8211; Japan fell short of the Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup quarterfinals with an 84-63 playoff loss to Hungary on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The quarterfinal playoff in Berlin pitted world No. 10 Japan, the third-placed team in Group A, against world No. 19 and Group B runner-up Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Japan trailed early before rallying in the second quarter. But with shooting guard Saki Hayashi limited by a right arm injury, Japan posed less threat from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary pulled away after halftime to advance to a quarterfinal meeting with four-time defending champion the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Point guard Kokoro Tanaka led Akatsuki Japan with 11 points, while Norika Konno and Mai Yamamoto each added 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN &#8211; Japan fell short of the Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup quarterfinals with an 84-63 playoff loss to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-885262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885262","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=885262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}