The way forward for sports activities is all the time on show in worldwide contests. From world soccer exhibiting off the latest younger stars like Spain’s Lamine Yamal to FIBA summer season basketball tournaments to the upcoming Olympics, discovering future stars is an exhilarating a part of sports activities fandom.
The subsequent massive worldwide prospect is likely to be hitting your tv quickly after her breakout efficiency on the FIBA U18 girls’s Asia Cup. Chinese middle Zhang Ziyu, who stands 7’3, is impressing throughout the match. It’s nonetheless merely unfathomable that there are those that tall strolling amongst us.
Ziyu had 36 factors, 13 rebounds, and 4 blocks in a win over New Zealand within the match on Tuesday. These highlights are comical: she’s a lot larger and stronger than everybody else on the court docket, and has fairly good contact as an inside scorer, too.
Ziyu had 19 factors within the match opener. She’s solely getting higher.
Ziyu seems to be the tallest girl on this planet. She’s officially listed by the tournament at 7’3, or 220 centimeters. A lady in Turkey listed at 215 centimeters was known as the tallest woman in the world as recently as last year.
Not solely is she like a complete two ft taller than the Indonesian workforce attempting to defend her, however she really reveals fairly good footwork within the publish for a 17-year-old. What’s loopy is that she doesn’t even have to leap to place the ball within the hoop, that’s simply wild.
It’s going to fascinating to comply with Ziyu all through this match. Women’s sports activities has legitimately by no means seen something like this.
Whatever she does sooner or later, I hope she does rather well at, as a result of the sky is the restrict for her as a basketball participant. Or, she will simply attain each prime shelf on Earth.
