Familiar favorites on a roll on Day 1 of FIBA Asia U16 Women's Championship

MEDAN (2015 FIBA Asia U16 Women's Championship) - Sweltering playing conditions notwithstanding, the opening day's proceedings at the 2015 FIBA Asia U16 Women's Championship rang a familiar note with Korea, Japan and China returning comfortable wins.

Defending champions China blew Chinese Taipei away with a 93-39 win following Japan's 108-43 triumph over Thailand. Korea had earlier beaten India, 97-52.

Chinese Taipei, Semi-Finalists in all three editions of the competition to date, kept pace with China for the first quarter when they trailed by a wafer-thin 13-14.

But China scored the first dozen points of the second quarter and finished the period with a 27-2 run to put paid to Taipei's hopes.

Yueru Li's double double of 16 points and a staggering 21 rebounds studded China's win.

Min Jung Kim opened the scoring for Korea, and for the game and Young Hyun Kim's girls breezed off to an almost double-digit lead in the first five minutes of the game.

Lee Jiwoo led the Korean charge with 9 points in the opening quarter, at the end of which Korea led 30-8.

Hyun used the remainder of the time giving his entire roster a feel of the court, and all of them scored.

Lee Sohee's 18 points, was the highest for Korea.

Rutuja Pawar paced India with 13 points.

"I'm very happy with my team's performance, they stuck to my instructions," Hyun put his team's performance succinctly.

Japan looked a little uncomfortable in one of their traditional strong-points, drawing a blank in all their 10 three-pointer attempts in the first half, but were never really in trouble.

Mayuko Fujinaga made 6 of 8 shot attempts for her dozen points to power Tatsui Ishhiki's girls to a 30-24 lead at half-time.

Itsuki Hashiguchi scored 15 of her game-high 23 points in the third quarter to take Japan further away.

In Level II action, a qualifying level from where the top two teams have an opportunity to make the cut for next edition's Level 1, Hong Kong and Singapore caused mild surprises with win over fancied opponents.

Hong Kong ran away with a 71-32 win over Malaysia and Singapore beat Kazakhstan, 76-63.

Hosts Indonesia, rounded off the day with a whirlwind 86-43 win over Uzbekistan in Level II bringing cheers to the home crowd.

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