BASKETBALL – THE kingdom’s all-Bahraini team competing in the Fiba 3x3 World Tour have been placed in a tough group for the preliminary round of the Hong Kong Masters, taking place this Saturday and Sunday.
After making their historic debut last week in the premier street basketball series under the International Basketball Federation (Fiba), Seef are all geared up to play in their first-ever Masters event, which is a top-tier competition on the Fiba 3x3 World Tour.
The Seef quartet of Sayed Mohammed Hameed, Sadeq Shukrallah, Hassan Fahad, and Nasser Al Mosawi lost both their games in the Orleans Challenger in France – a lower-tier event – and will be looking to bounce back in Hong Kong. There, they will be in Pool B alongside French outfit Toulouse and Skyliners from Germany.
Pool A features Ub of Serbia, Kandava Turiba of Latvia, and Hong Kong; Pool C is composed of Amsterdam Rabobank of the Netherlands, Partizan of Serbia, and one of two squads from the qualifying draw; and Pool D comprises Miami of the US, Chongming of China, and the second qualifier.
Six sides are competing in qualification, which has been divided into two groups. Group A is composed of Ulaanbaatar MMC Energy of Mongolia, Shanghai of China, and Milan of Italy; while Group B features Hangzhou and Guangzhou STR Revo, both of China, as well as Doha of Qatar.
Seef begin their campaign against Toulouse and then face off with Skyliners in their other fixture.
Bahrain’s other representatives on the Fiba 3x3 World Tour, Riffa, are not competing in Hong Kong.
The Fiba 3x3 World Tour 2025 has already held Masters events in Japan, China, the Netherlands, France, Austria, and Mongolia, with other events also set to be held in Canada, Switzerland, Hungary, China, Macau, and the UAE before heading to Bahrain for the Fiba 3x3 World Tour 2025 finale on November 21 and 22.
The competition in Orleans was one of 20 Challenger tournaments this season.
This year will be the first time ever that Bahrain will be staging the curtain-closer, which will crown this year’s Fiba 3x3 World Tour champions.
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