Ho-Shue & Yakura Look to Emerge Stronger
Taking a game off the Minions at the All England was an encouraging sign for Jason Ho-Shue and Nyl Yakura as the end of Olympic qualification drew near. But with the Olympics postponed and the circuit suspended, the…
· DEV SUKUMAR
Taking a game off the Minions at the All England was an encouraging sign for Jason Ho-Shue and Nyl Yakura as the end of Olympic qualification drew near. But with the Olympics postponed and the circuit suspended, the goalposts have had to be shifted and priorities re-examined.
Yet, the Pan Am champions, who were 15th in the Race to Tokyo, haven’t let the pandemic and consequent social isolation get to them. They’re seeing in this an opportunity to emerge stronger than before.
“I try to look at it in a good way,” says Yakura. “It gives us time to recover, because in qualification year we were playing well over 25 tournaments, a lot of them back-to-back, so we didn’t have time for proper training. It was easy to get injured; now it’s a good time for us to get healthy, maybe get a bit fitter and stronger.