Practice allowed for one hour, no access to physios and trainers: Saina Nehwal tells BWF | Badminton News – Times of India

BANGKOK: India’s Saina Nehwal on Tuesday lashed out at Badminton World Federation for denying the athletes, amongst different issues, access to trainers and physios forward of the upcoming tournaments in Thailand and urged BWF to tackle the problems on the earliest.
In a sequence of tweets, Olympic bronze-medallist Saina expressed her displeasure on the restrictions imposed by BWF as half of its COVID-19 protocols for the bio-safety bubble.
“The physios and trainers cannot meet us during the entire tour after all (al) of us have tested negative? @bwfmedia @bwf_ac. 4 weeks of this how is it possible to maintain ourselves. We want to play the tournament in good condition. Please sort this @bwfmedia,” Saina tweeted.
With March being the lower-off date for Tokyo Olympics qualification, Saina is anxious that the shortage of correct coaching would possibly have an effect on her efficiency.
The former world quantity one stated she tried contacting the BWF, however to no avail.
“Practice only for an hour everyday for the entire team? Gym timings the same … considering March being the important Olympic qualification period this is not good enough to be in good shape.”

An Indian contingent is at present within the Thai capital to participate within the BWF World Tour Finals and two Super 1000 occasions, the place the world’s finest gamers return following an extended break caused by the pandemic.
In one other tweet, Saina wrote, “No Time for warm ups / taping / cool downs / stretches..we are talking about the best players in the world competing isn’t it?
“We’ve spent quite a bit of cash getting the physios and trainers together with us . If they can not assist us then why was this not informed earlier than?”