BOWLER Litia Tikoisuva is in top shape for her fifth Commonwealth Games which will be held in Gold Coast, Australia in April.
Tikoisuva, 55, partnered Loretta Kotoisuva and Radhika Prasad last weekend to win the Kontiki Finance National Triples competition at Suva Bowling Club greens.
“We are concentrating on our metal skills for the Commonwealth Games and we are working with people who are helping us on the mental toughness,” Tikoisuva said.
“In lawn bowls it is about 80 per cent mental preparation and the other 20 per cent is about your skills which we all have in the team. It is going to be a different environment in terms of the speed of the green because Fiji greens are very slow and greens in Australia would be running very fast.”
Tikoisuva had been playing bowls for a number of years and represented Fiji in four Commonwealth Games and it would her fifth appearance at the esteemed competition.
“I competed in my first Commonwealth Games in 1998 and since then I took part in the four Commonwealth Games.”
The trio along with Sheral Mar and Doreen O’Connor will fly Fiji’s flag at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
