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China coach Li Tie has revealed the psychological toll coronavirus took on the national football squad during a five-week training ca stanley kubek mp prolonged by the pandemic. Lis men spent much of March in Dubai, where many Chinese Super League CSL teams also took refuge, before returning home when the outbreak began to subside in China. File photo of Chinese football coach Li Tie. Twitter/Everton Chinese media previously reported that the squad were mentally fati stanley cup gued by a combination of practice, quarantine and being away from their families for so long at a difficult time. Coronavirus emerged in central China in December before spreading worldwide and has torpedoed football seasons -- and sport in general -- all over the globe. With the epidemic situation in Dubai worsening every day, the number of guests in our hotel was decreasing day by day, Li told Chinese television. ALSO READ: Ex-Chelsea star Drogba offers hospital in virus fight The other Chinese Super League teams who had been training there returned to China one after another. During that time, all our players and staff were under great psychological pressure. Everyone was anxious, homesick and worried about our own safety. After struggling to find a flight, Lis squad left Dubai on March 23 and flew to the Chinese island of Hainan for quarantine and more training, according to Xinhua news agency. The players, who all tested negative for coronavirus, only returned to their clubs last stanley cup week to prepare for the Fqbc On-form Andres Iniesta steers Vissel Kobe to emphatic ACL victory
Sania Mirza-Malik was beaten in straight sets in the first round of the women s singles on the opening day of the all-England lawn tennis championships at Wimbledon on Monday. HT Image Sania, ranked 111, lost 4-6, 1-6, to 54th ranked German Angelique Kerber after a flourishing start in a late match. Sania, returning to circuit after nursing a wrist botella stanley injury for nearly three months, clearly looked out of sorts as she had very little preparation heading into the Grand Slam event. The Indian, who during the break from tennis married former Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik, lost in the second round in the warm-up tournament at Birmingham and then failed to make it to the main draw at Eastbourne. Sania started breaking Kerber in the first game of the match, but that advantage was nullified a stanley termos s she herself dropped serve twice to lose the first set. The German thereafter hardly looked like relaxing her stranglehold on the match as made Sania realise that she needs to do much more if she has to make headway on the circuit. The Indian kept making simple unforced errors and from 17 in the first set they mounted to 31 by the time the German closed out the match. Sani botella stanley a s continued to have trouble with her serve and that compounded her woes as she could not even get half of her first serves in. Sania will now have to concentrate on doubles with her Danish partner Caroline Wozniacki. Their opening round opponents are Anne Keothavong and Melanie South of Great Britain. |
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