KUALA LUMPUR: National ladies’s squash ace S. Sivasangari has been honoured as the Athlete of the Month for April by The World Games in recognition of her outstanding achievement at the inaugural London Classic the place she emerged champion by defeating top-ranked gamers, final month.
According to The World Games Facebook publish tonight, the recognition stemmed from her inspirational journey of overcoming adversity to realize outstanding success after a difficult incident.
“World Number 13, Sivasangari Subramaniam received the prestigious GillenMarkets London Squash Classic, beating world primary Nour El Sherbini in the quarter-final, world quantity 4 Nele Gilis in the semi-final and world quantity two Hania El Hammamy in the closing.
“And all these solely two years after she was in a life-threatening automobile crash, the place her head, backbone and neck have been badly injured and medical doctors feared she may by no means stroll once more. Well, she walks – and she or he wins,” in accordance with the assertion.
As The World Games Athlete of the Month, Sivasangari will obtain a diploma and a branded reward.
Last Saturday, PSA World Tour named Sivasangari as the PSA World Tour Players of the Month for April.
In 2022, Sivasangari suffered life-threatening accidents in a visitors accident right here which saved her out of the Commonwealth Games and precipitated mobility points in her neck.
The nationwide primary now seems again to her finest, along with her London Classic title, the first Gold-level occasion received by a Malaysian since the nice Datuk Nicol Ann David in 2015.
Last 12 months, Sivasangari additionally received two gold medals at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games in October as properly as the PSA World Tour Bronze-level Hong Kong Football Club Open crown in November.
