YANGQUAN Chaussures Homme Nike Air Vapormax 2018 Bleu Pas Cher , Shanxi, May 17 (Xinhua) --- Chinese women's national basketball team edged the Cuban counterpart 74-67 to enjoy a two- game winning streak in Sino-Cuban Women's International Basketball Challenge here on Friday.
As a warm-up for Asian Women's Basketball Championship this October, Chinese team's head coach Tom Maher found some "new faces " this time. He showed positive attitude towards these young girls ' performance in this game, including Li Meng, born in 1995, the youngest girl in this national team.
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Ji Yanyan contributed a team-high 14 points. Xu Nuo, Chen Nan and Liu Jiacen each scored nine points.
The Chinese side crushed over the same opponent 73-57 in Beijing on Thursday. Over 3,000 fans crowded into Yangquan Gymnasium to support the Chinese girls. Center Chen Nan opened the game with a jumper, followed by Ji Yanyan's layup and Liu Jiacen's three-point play, which forced the Cuban side into a timeout. The Chinese team led by 27-17 after the first period.
After trailing by 15 points into the halftime Homme Nike Air Max 96 XX Chaussures Triple Noir En ligne , the Cuban girls stormed to a 9-2 run after the third quarter began. Fortunately, Ding Yuan cooled down the opponents' momentum with a jumper. Through a 12-2 run, the Chinese side extended the lead to 17 points after this quarter.
The Cuban cut the deficit within six points with one minute remaining, while the home team secured the victory with free throws.
Yamara Amargo finished with a game-high 26 point. Her teammate Oyanaisis Gelis helped with 15 points.
The last match between both teams will be held two days later in Xiyang, Shanxi.
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Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza hailed her climb to world No. 1 for the first time as a "dream come true" as the Spaniard will top the new WTA rankings on Monday.
Karolina Pliskova's US Open quarterfinal defeat to American 20th seed Coco Vandeweghe on Wednesday ensured two-time Grand Slam winner Muguruza will become the 24th woman to top the rankings in WTA history.
"It is a dream come true, something I always wanted since I was small," said Muguruza in a video posted on her Twitter feed.
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"I want to thank them a lot for their support. I am here thanks to them so I hope to maintain this for as long as possible."
Pliskova brushed off losing her No. 1 ranking, but said she failed to live up to her own high expectations at the US Open, Reuters reported.
Pliskova was beaten 6-7 (4), 3-6 by Vandeweghe to end her hopes of clinching a maiden grand slam title.
The big-serving Czech had previously said that being No. 1 came with additional pressure to perform at the tournament, where she lost in the final last year to Angelique Kerber.
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"I don't think something is going to change if you are No. 2. I don't see any difference between this. So for me, no changes."
Pliskova never quite found her groove at Flushing Meadows this year as her ferocious serve lacked its usual bite.
The typically reserved 25-year-old even saw her temper boil over during her match on Wednesday when she threw her racquet violently to the court in disgust after hitting a forehand long to hand the first set to Vandeweghe.
"I think overall now I can say I was not playing my best tennis this tournament," she said at a news conference.
"Still made it to quarterfinals, which is pretty good.
"Just happy that this tournament is over now," she added with a smile.
She said she will take away lessons from the tournament, including learning how to win when not playing her best and how to cope with pressure.
"This pressure Nike Air Max 97 Ultra Noir Soldes Chaussures Homme , what I had here, this tournament, it was something new for me. So I never felt like this before. I was never actually defending a final of a grand slam. So it was totally different," she said.
"Maybe I'm going to feel better on the next grand slams."
Pliskova's reign came with long-time world No. 1 Serena Williams absent while pregnant. The 23-time Grand Slam champion gave birth to a baby girl last week and says she plans to defend her title next January in Melbourne.
SYDNEY, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- A leading Australian expert warned on Friday that more needs to be done to address the potential damage being done by humans to the microbial ecology as microorganisms are critical to our survival on the planet.
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The problem, Gillings said, stems from the fact that not enough emphasis has been placed on the potential damage that has been caused by human interference to these fragile ecosystems, which he says are far more crucial to our survival than any other animal.
"So they are the organisms that we can see, and we know that humans.