Polish women qualified for the world championships in April, when they beat North Macedonia in the two -sight (22:18 and 23:21). Thus, they calmed the fans after three defeats in the March Golden Cup in the Netherlands, although it should be noted that they played there with the powers themselves: Denmark (17:29), Norway (28:32) and Dutch housewives (22:26). Thus, they could start waiting for the drawing of group rivals.
Polish women got to know their fate! On the road, among others runner -up world
His day came on Thursday, May 22. Our team went to the second basket (out of four), as it took a fairly high 9th place in the European Championships last year. This meant potential clashes with two theoretically weaker teams and one of the powers. As for the most powerful rivals, our staff hit extremely unpleasant, because on the defender of the title, i.e. the Frenchwoman. Two years ago in the Norwegian-Danish-Swedish tournament, “Tri-colored” reconciled all housewives, winning the final with Norway 31:28. Now they will want to not only defend the title, but also make up for their failure at the European Championships from last year, when they took only fourth place.
As for the other two teams in our group F, the rivals of Polish women will be Chinese and tunis. The team from Asia took the 28th place two years ago, losing all three matches in the group. In turn, the Africans did not qualify for the tournament at all. Beating both teams is most within the range of Polish women, and calling it a duty will not be an exaggeration.
Two years ago, the second round was a ceiling. This time will he be pierced?
Three best teams from the group go to the second round, which take the points scored at the others promoting. So if our representatives win all three matches, then the second group phase will start with four points (two for winning with the last team in the table will fall out). Let us add that the group F, in which Polish women are, in the second round will merge with group E. This means that our staff will face the three best teams from the group: the Netherlands, Austria, Argentina, Egypt.
Two years ago, Polish women left the group from second place, winning with Iran and Japan, and losing to the Germans. Unfortunately, in the second round they only won with Serbia and lost to Denmark and Romania, which made them say goodbye to the tournament, finally taking the 16th place. Our team will start this year's championship on November 28 with a match with Chinese. Later, a start with Tunisia on November 30 and December 2 a match with the French.