Two of Britain’s brightest tennis prospects feared for their future after being left bedbound by coronavirus.
Both Maia Lumsden, 24, and Tanysha Dissanayake, 20, are suffering the long-term effects of the virus, but the former is set to make a gradual return to the game 18 months after first testing positive for covid-19.
The same cannot be said for Dissanayake, who contracted Covid-19 last July and has struggled to do anything in the court since. She told PA news agency: “It’s basically been downhill ever since. For most of this year I’ve been completely bedbound. Just to speak to you today, I didn’t do anything the whole of the morning, didn’t do much yesterday. One of my friends came over the other day. I had to rest for five days after that.”
