BASKETBALL – BAHRAIN representatives Riffa are set to compete in the Shanghai Masters in China today in their latest competition on the 2025 Fiba 3x3 World Tour.
Riffa are in the two-day tournament with a quartet of Belgian nationals Dennis Donkor, Jonas Foerts, and Vic van Oosterwyck, along with Serbian Milos Antic.
They are set to compete in Pool B of the preliminary round along with Amsterdam Rabobank from the Netherlands and Skyliners from Germany.
Pool A features Ub and Partizan from Serbia and Ulaanbaatar MMC Energy from Mongolia; Pool C is composed of Toulouse from France and Chinese outfits Chongming and Hangzhou; and Pool D includes Miami from the US, Raudondvaris Hoptrans from Lithuania, and a team from the qualifying draw.
Qualification features three teams, including Lugano from Switzerland, Atyrau from Kazakhstan, and hometown side Shanghai.
Riffa open their campaign against Amsterdam at 11.15am, to be followed by their game against Skyliners at 2.25pm. Both times are Bahrain.
Should Riffa advance, the quarter-finals will be held tomorrow, after which the semis and final will take place.
Riffa are coming off a fantastic title triumph from the 3x3 International Quest to GRITness basketball tournament, played in Antwerp, Belgium.
The Fiba 3x3 World Tour is the premier street basketball series under the International Basketball Federation (Fiba). Events are of different levels, beginning with lower-tier Lite Quest and Quest competitions, and moving up to Challengers and top-tier Masters events.
The Masters event in Shanghai follows others held in Japan, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Canada, Switzerland, Hungary, and elsewhere in China earlier this season. Other events in Shenzhen, Macau, Abu Dhabi, and Bucharest are also scheduled to take place, before heading to Bahrain for the Fiba 3x3 World Tour 2025 finale this November 21 and 22.
This year will be the kingdom’s staging of the series’ curtain-closer for the first time, following Manama Masters events held the past two seasons.
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