2022 Women's Basketball World Cup group stage has ended 3 rounds of competition. Let's take a look at the standings and qualifying prospects of Group A and Group B.
Women's Basketball World Cup standings
A group defending champions American team won three consecutive victories, defeating two strong rivals China and Belgium , and qualifying without worries. In the last two games, South Korea and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which have weaker PK strength, are expected to remain unbeaten. Chinese women's basketball and Belgian women's basketball team are both 2 wins and 1 loss, China's net victory over South Korea and Bosnia and Herzegovina 110 points, and the only defeat was losing to the United States team. Today, Puerto Rico . If nothing unexpected happens, China has no worries about the top 8. If it can defeat Belgium in the last round, it will have a chance to advance to the knockout stage as the second in the group. For the Chinese women's basketball team, it will not control the group ranking and will not pick opponents in the knockout stage, just to work hard to play every game.
China loses to the United States and temporarily ranks second in the group
Belgian women's basketball team was almost upset in the last round and narrowly defeated Puerto Rico 68-65. Today they will face the test of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They perform normally, and Belgium has no problem passing the mark. Bosnia and Herzegovina lost all the first three rounds, and it is likely that the group will be at the bottom. South Korea and Puerto Rico are currently both 1 win and 2 losses. The two teams will have a head-on confrontation in the last round. Which team can win, there is hope of winning the top four in the group and thus gaining the opportunity to advance to the top 8.
B group competition is fierce
B group has 4 European and American teams and 1 Asian team + 1 African team. Their competition is more intense than Group A. Currently, Canada is the only one who maintains a complete victory record. They defeated Serbia , France and Japan respectively. Today's opponent is host Australia. If they can defeat Australia, Canada can lock in the first place in the group to advance to the knockout stage.
Japan lost two consecutive games
Hosts Australia and France have both 2 wins and 1 loss and 5 points. In order to go further in the next knockout round, or avoid the same and half of the US team, they hope to get a better ranking. In addition to PK Canada, Australia will also play against Japanese team . The French team faced the Japanese team today, and the final round of the group stage PK Serbia. Serbia and Japan currently have 1 win and 2 losses. The Japanese team only defeated Mali and lost to Serbia and Canada one after another. If they lose again against France and Australia, the Asian champion will miss the group qualifying. Serbia will not have much problem in winning against Mali today, and it will fight against France in the last round.