3x3 Women's Series Sea Breeze stage tips off today

The Sea Breeze stage of the FIBA 3x3 Women's Series will get underway today in Azerbaijan, with 16 teams competing for the title, Report informs.

The tournament is being held at the Sea Breeze Resort on August 15-16.

Alongside Azerbaijan's national team, Neftchi SOCAR, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Madrid of Spain, Latvia, Yanjing of China, Czechia, Warsaw of Poland, Ukraine, Poland, Paraguay, Egypt, Benin and Arrasate Ointxe of Spain will take part in the competition.

Azerbaijan will compete in the qualifying draw for a place in the main draw's Group C. The national team will face Ukraine at 10:00 am (GMT+4) in the tournament's opening game, followed by a match against Egypt at 10:50 am.

Main-draw action will begin in the afternoon. Neftchi SOCAR, which is in Group B, will face Spain's Arrasate Ointxe at 03:50 pm before taking on China's Yanjing at 05:40 pm.

The top two teams from each group will advance to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinals, semifinals and final will all be played on August 16.

The Netherlands enter the event as the top seed, while Neftchi SOCAR are seeded second.