KUALA LUMPUR: National Sports Council (NSC) are now willing to accept Jawariah Nordin’s training programme, even if the plan is not for a full year. NSC had initially insisted on a year-long plan which the national No 1 was not able to provide.
According to NSC programmes committee chairman Arrifin Mohd Ghani, they will now accept periodic calendars from Jawariah.
Jawariah was unable to provide the year-long schedule as the WTA1000s calendar are only released every three-four months.
The fact she’s been struggling to find her own sponsors makes her plight even worse.
“We have had a meeting with her and her dad, Noordin Omar regarding this. We agreed it would be possible if she could come up with a draft programme for even six months,” said Arrifin.
“Our tennis liaison officer Sukhdev Kaur Hans has already contacted Jawariah, asking her to get back to us soon. We will consider her plan.”
Jawariah has not played many tournaments because of her sour ties with the Lawn Tennis Association of Malaysia (LTAM) in 2009. Since then she has dealt with NSC directly.
“We allocated RM100,000 for her last year but she changed her mind and didn’t want to compete in some tournaments. Maybe, it was also due to Sukma and fasting month,” added Sukhdev.
Jawariah has returned to Penang to train with her dad and brother, Muhammad Noor Nordin, for the WTA Malaysian Open later this month. She earned one of the two qualifiers wild card by upstaging the other national players in the trials last week.
Choo Lyn Yuen took the other wildcard. - Vijhay Vick (Malay Mail)
