Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, the D’Tigress suffered a second consecutive warm-up game defeat to Serbia in Belgrade on Sunday as they continued their preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics Games which will be held between July 26 and August 11 in France.

The African champions lost 70-62 points to the 10th-ranked country in the FIBA World ranking.

This is the team’s second match ahead of the women’s basketball tournament of the 2024 Olympic Games following a 77-63 defeat to Germany at the UBER Arena in Berlin on Friday.

Rena Wakama’s ladies started slowly and trailed by six points in the first quarter which ended 21-15.

Serbia took a 10-point lead into the halftime break after winning the second quartre 18-14 as well.

The African champions began a charge in the third quarter, levelling things at 18-18 before winning the last quatre by 15-13 points.