2014 Women's World Championship

[carlo]

Event scheduled Sept 27 - Oct 5 in Ankara/Istanbul, TUR.

Qualified Teams:

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Preliminary round draft will take place today in Istanbul.
Teams have been ranged in pots as follows:

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[carlo]

Group A: Brazil, Czech Republic, Japan, Spain
Group B: Canada, France, Mozambique, Turkey
Group C: Australia, Belarus, Cuba, South Korea
Group D: Angola, China, Serbia, USA

First team of each Group qualifies to quarterfinals.
Second and third of each Group will advance to a direct elimination round.

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Australia and USA likely to clash in semifinals.

[CKR13]

Korea will have two women's squads this year. Team A will train for the Asian Games and Team B will participate in the World Cup.

Both squads will scrimmage one another besides friendlies through the preparation schedule.

May - June = Training camp / local scrimmages
July - August = Trips abroad / friendlies / start of competitions.

Kim Young-Joo (KDB Life Winnus Guri) will coach the South Korean team that will play in Turkey. While Wee Sung-Woo (Woori Hansae) will coach the team for the Asian Games. South Korea has two women's national teams this year.

[CKR13]

Australia's coach, Brendan Joyce reacts to the draw.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/basketball/australia-coach-brendan-joyce-says-opals-have-tough-draw-at-world-basketball-championships/story-fni2fljn-1226856377462

[CKR13]

While the Japanese men's team is drawing flak for their string of bad performances and inability to participate in the two succeeding world cups after 2006, the women's team and program has been drawing praise. A good showing in Turkey and perhaps a direct qualification for Rio 2016 by winning next year's 2015 FIBA Asia will solidify their automatic bid for 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

[carlo]

Japan and Korea imo are placed in the most competitive groups, pretty difficult to predict the two teams that won't advance.

[bomba]

idd, it's gonna be a real fight

[CKR13]

Any news on China? They too are in a tougher spot. Last I heard is that Chen Nan retired so we may see a younger substitute.

[carlo]

Suzy Batkovic and Jenna O'Hea withdrew from 2014 Australian NT.
The two Jayco Opals veterans will focus on their WNBL & WNBA club careers.

[CKR13]

New Zealand aka Tall Ferns preparations outlined:

http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/news/article/-/22086667/basketball-big-international-programme-for-tall-ferns/

[carlo]

New Zealand aka Tall Ferns preparations outlined:
http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/news/arti...or-tall-ferns/

Tall Ferns were eliminated by Australia and won't participate to the WC.

[CKR13]

Tall Ferns were eliminated by Australia and won't participate to the WC.

Oh, I posted on the wrong thread.

Anyways, do you have news about Cuba and the Czech Republic? I was trying to find anything related to their NT but none.

[carlo]

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Anyways, do you have news about Cuba and the Czech Republic? I was trying to find anything related to their NT but none.

Neither did I, for Czech Republic no news from the Official Site, while for Cuba no active site is available.
Concerning CZE, it's probably a bit too early right now, as the National regular season just ended few days ago.

[CKR13]

Natalie Achonwa could miss the world cup for Canada due to a knee injury.

[carlo]

PF Isabelle Yacobou has withdrawn as a French NT candidate for personal reasons.