Fiba 3x3 basketball: Hong Kong women savour facing top sides in Olympic qualifiers
- City’s women’s team start with two losses but their star player Li Tsz-kwan says it’s valuable experience
- Hong Kong’s challenge is to work at the short version of the game, Li says – ‘how do we develop specific tactics and training plans?’
Home fans erupted into cheers when Hong Kong’s representative teams took the court at Victoria Park on Friday night.
Playing on the opening day of the Fiba 3x3 Universality Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Hong Kong’s women’s team twice put up a courageous fight before falling to defeats by Hungary and Egypt.
Facing the Hungarians, the top seeds, Hong Kong’s Women’s Chinese Basketball Association player Li Tsz-kwan scored the first point from the free throw line, but that was as good as it got.
Powered by Beatrice Mompremier’s five points, and four more from Klaudia Papp, the visitors responded strongly and built a lead. They went on to win 21-7.
“Their world ranking is obviously much higher than ours, and they had massive 3x3 experience,” Tong Hiu-lui, who lead the hosts with four points, said.
“But we tried our best in terms of our preparation.”
