Heena aims to improve consistency

Boosted by her gold and silver-winning performances at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, pistol ace Heena Sidhu is confident of doing well in the May 22-29 ISSF World Cup in Munich, but said she needs to work on her consistency.

Heena, 28, won a gold in the 25m sports pistol while creating a Commonwealth Games record at Gold Coast in April and a silver in the 10m air pistol event.

“I will be training in Pforzheim from May 8 to 21 and will also play a practice match on May 13. And then we have the World Cup at the end of this month,” Heena said ahead of her departure for Germany.

“My main focus is on being consistent. I did well at the Commonwealth Games and also the World Cup in Korea after that. “In fact, if you look at the scores, there was an improvement from the Commonwealth Games, but I could not get any medal in Korea,” Heena said.

“I have noticed that I have been having one or two good series and then it is followed by a bad series. So I have to naturally work on my consistency.

“Shooting as a sport has changed now and we shoot seven to eight days in a row so being focused and consistent is important.”

Heena started her career in 10m pistol but also took up the 25m in 2017 and has since been training with coach and husband Ronak Pandit.

“It is difficult doing three categories, 10m air pistol, 25m sport and team event and all of them require time and a lot of focus.

“Earlier I had two to three day’s rest between my events but now I shoot almost all the days of the tournament,” Heena said.

She is aiming at top scores in the run-up to the Asian Games and the World Championship in August and September.