Her father Jolly Mathew was a volleyball coach but Treesa Jolly realised that she and older sister Maria were not made for spiking or blocking.
“We were not tall enough, so we tried badminton. In our village [Pulingome in Kannur near the Kerala-Karnataka border], nobody was interested in playing badminton,” said Treesa.
“So dad made a court outside our house, and when it rained he made a roof with a tarpaulin sheet.”
