Captain Shao Ting, who secured the victory in final seconds and stopped the amazing comeback of the opponents, admitted that her team was looking forward to this match as a learning opportunity and that only as "the game progressed, we found a chance to win this game, and we finally seized it".

"After this game, we are more focused on tomorrow's game and hope to learn from South Korea again and to play at our true level," Shao told Xinhua.

The Spanish team also praised the Chinese team, blaming the defeat on their weak start, catastrophic second quarter, and inability to break the match in the final seconds of the game.

Alba Torres said that her team did not bring the best decisions and had a poor first half, but in the end fought for every ball.

"China played a really good game, they found strength to punish us, and now it's up to us to analyze, and see what we can improve tomorrow," she said.

Spain coach Lucas Mondelo said that his team missed too many easy shots, which made them nervous in the second quarter, which they lost by 6-22.

"China was able to run and to play quicker, fast breaks and this built their confidence. The Chinese team played very hard defense, but had only two fouls in second quarter, which was almost impossible. I want to congratulate the Chinese team for qualifying for the Olympics" he said.

Chinese player Li Meng and coach Xu Limin said at the press conference that the victory came after hard work, and represents a vital experience for the improvement of the team.

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