Hyderabad: The continuous coronavirus The pandemic once again robbed state agitator Akula Sreeja of a chance to play in the Premier League table tennis league.
The rower also missed the chance to play in the Spanish league last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. A year later, the second wave of pandemic spoiled Sreeja’s plans. The woman’s best rower also had to go to Spain this year to play in the same tournament to play for the Santa D Eularia club base in Ibiza.
‘Last year I also got all the visas and documents and am going to leave my house at the airport to go to Spain. But then we got a message from the organizers to say that Spain due to the coronavirus pandemic. And the next day the land was in the lock. Also this year I was ready to go to Spain for the same league. I prepared my documents and applied for a visa in Mumbai. But due to the second wave, the flights from India to Spain were banned and the embassy stopped issuing visas from the same day. I missed the opportunity again, ”she advises.
With the increasing number of cases that forced the state government to apply lock-in, the rower moved to New Delhi last month to treat her sore shoulder, concentrate on mental strength and practice yoga. “I came to Delhi last month. I have this constant pain in my shoulder due to the overload. I also have two years of tennis elbow. Since Telangana State has instituted lockdown, I wanted to focus on healing the shoulder nail naturally and I joined the TAC Yoga Center. I practice yoga, meditation and spiritual training. My shoulder has improved a lot. “Once I return to Hyderabad, I will resume my training,” the 22-year-old, who is an assistant manager at the Reserve Bank of India, added.
Regarding the uncertainty over the calendar, she said: ‘I’m not worried about the disrupted schedule as it is not in my hands. But I work on things that are in my control. I just want to practice and be ready when the schedule resumes. Yoga and meditation have now calmed me down. ”
After Sreeja won the historic bronze among the citizens, she was the only Telugu girl to win a medal with the citizens so far. ‘The tournament is very competitive in nature and I lost in the final round of the preliminary round. But it was one of my best performances in international tournaments. I defeated players with higher positions in the qualifying rounds. It gave me a lot of confidence. Of course there is a lot to improve, ”she said.
Source: Telangana Today