Canada's women's basketball team opened the Olympics with a 72-68 loss to Serbia on Monday, a blow out of the gate to a team intent on climbing the medal podium in Tokyo.
Nirra Fields led Canada with a game-high19 points, while Kia Nurse had 16 points and six rebounds for the Canadians, who who had to dig themselves out of a double-digit deficit because of poor first-half shooting. Shay Colley added 12 points before leaving the game with an apparent right shoulder injury in the third quarter.The fourth-ranked Canadians struggled on the offensive end for much of the night, trailing by as many as 11 points early on.
The Canadians face No. 19 South Korea on Thursday in the 12-team tournament, then face third-ranked Spain on Sunday. Spain held on to edge South Korea 73-69 in the earlier game Monday. The Canadians' only official FIBA action since the start of the pandemic was a fourth-place finish at the FIBA AmeriCup regional tournament in Puerto Rico last month.
Serbia, the 2016 Olympic bronze medallist, led 16-13 after one quarter, and went up by as many as 11 before taking a 36-28 advantage into the halftime break.
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