Back to 9 years ago, that is, in 2016, the U18 Women's Asian Basketball Championship (the predecessor of the Asian Cup) was held in Bangkok, Thailand, and the Chinese team sent Zhang Tianyu, Dong Keer, Wang Jiaqi, Li Yueru, Tan Shuangyan, Zou Qijia, Han Xu, Li Yuan, Cao Yijia, Zhang Ru, Liang Liwen, Jia Saiqi 12 people to the game, at that time, they were also immature and led the Chinese team all the way to the finals, and defeated the Japanese team 78-47 in the finals to win the championship, and this lineup has four players we are very familiar with, They have become an important core player of the Chinese women's basketball team and have supported half of the sky of the Chinese women's basketball team!
Han Xu, Li Yueru, Zhang Ru and Li Yuan have gradually grown up since 2016 and gradually become the leaders of the Chinese women's basketball team, after several years of development, they helped the Chinese team win the second place in the World Cup in the 2022 Women's Basketball World, it can be said that the 2016 U18 Asian Championship has achieved today's golden generation, they started from defeating the Japanese women's basketball team, and the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the Japanese team in the group stage of this Asian Cup, will it be a kind of inheritance?
Now that the U18 women's basketball team has begun to grow, they will become the leaders of the Chinese women's basketball team in the next few years, so their performance will directly determine the fate of the Chinese women's basketball team in the future. We seem to have found four players similar to Han Xu, Li Yueru and others in this year's players, is it a coincidence?
Zhang Ziyu corresponds to Li Yueru, Zhang Ziyue corresponds to Zhang Ru, Wang Jiaxin corresponds to Li Yuan, Xu Peilin corresponds to Han Xu, and the three teenagers are basically very similar, I believe that the Chinese women's basketball team will complete the inheritance in this batch of women's basketball teams in the future!
The Chinese U18 women's basketball team has dominated the Asian Cup (Asian Championships) for many years, and has won 11 championships and 1 runner-up in the 12th Asian Cup.