At present, the Chinese women's basketball team has ended the U18 Asian Cup, and in the end, despite Zhang Ziyu's excellent performance, the Chinese women's basketball team still lost to the more powerful Australian women's basketball team and missed the championship. Of course, although he was not able to stand on the highest podium at home, for Zhang Ziyu, the core of the Chinese women's basketball team, this time it was indeed full of gains.
On the one hand, Zhang Ziyu won the MVP of the Asian Cup after the game, and on the other hand, through the super performance of this Asian Cup, Zhang Ziyu also won the recognition of the head coach of the Australian women's basketball team. More importantly, according to recent media reports, with a height of 2.28 meters and a good performance, Zhang Ziyu has become even more popular abroad and has attracted the attention of many fans.
Therefore, for Zhang Ziyu, the journey to the Asian Cup has benefited a lot.
Just recently, in an interview with the media, Zhang Ziyu also responded to various questions from the outside world, of which two points are very noteworthy. The first point is about being called a female Yao Ming. At first, the media reported that Zhang Ziyu did not like the title of female Yao Ming, but later Zhang Ziyu responded in an interview, and she made it clear that she did not like to be called female Yao Ming, but because she felt too much pressure. After all, Yao Ming is the most influential superstar in Chinese basketball, and Zhang Ziyu is compared with Yao Ming by the outside world, which is indeed a stressful thing for Zhang Ziyu. If she can't achieve Yao Mingjiang's achievements in the future, she will inevitably be criticized by others.
So for Zhang Ziyu, she just wants to be herself now and work hard to improve herself first, so that the name Zhang Ziyu can become a symbol of Chinese basketball in the future, instead of becoming the next Yao Ming. On the other hand, Zhang Ziyu also replied to the question of whether he wants to compete in the WNBA next, making it clear that he is very much looking forward to it and very much hopes to be able to step on the WNBA arena one day in the future. For this reason, Zhang Ziyu also announced the most important decision of her career in an interview, saying that she has begun to learn English, and it is one thing to learn it or not, but she has begun to take action.
From this point of view, Zhang Ziyu is still very clear about her future life plan, because she knows very well that if she goes abroad to play in the top league, communication with teammates is very important, so English as a foreign language must be mastered, otherwise Zhang Ziyu will have the opportunity to play abroad in the future, it is estimated that it will be difficult to survive and develop, let alone improve himself.
At present, Zhang Ziyu is still very clear about her life plan, and she will not be blindly inflated and arrogant because of good results in the Asian Cup, she knows at what level her strength is and knows what she wants to do in the future, which I think is commendable. Next, as long as Zhang Ziyu can learn with an open mind and improve himself, he will be able to achieve more powerful achievements in the future, we look forward to that day, and we also look forward to Zhang Ziyu becoming another pride of Chinese basketball one day.