Excited for Prime Volleyball League debut, says Rohith P

Bengaluru Torpedoes will take on Kochi Blue Spikers in the league on Tuesday.

The Bengaluru Torpedoes will take on Kochi Blue Spikers in the fourth fixture of the RuPay Prime Volleyball League at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad on Tuesday, 08 February 2022. 

Speaking ahead of their first match in the season, Bengaluru Torpedoes' Rohith P said, "I am really excited to play my first match in the RuPay Prime Volleyball League. Our team has been practicing together for a while and we have a good mix of experience and youth in our side. We have the team to put up good performances in the tournament."

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The Middle Blocker added that he is looking to become popular through the RuPay Prime Volleyball League, "Volleyball isn't as popular as cricket in India and volleyball players aren't that famous. With the RuPay Prime Volleyball League being broadcast on television, the audience can see us in action and start to recognize who we are. That way we have a chance to become popular. We are hoping that we become famous players one day. 

Speaking about the challenges he has faced in his career, Rohith P said, "My shoe size is 13, but I had to wear shoes of size 12 for a long time because that was the highest shoe size available in India. I didn't know that there are shoes of size 13 as well for a long time. After I started working for Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, I started asking my friends who lived abroad to send shoes of size 13 to me here. And whenever I travel abroad for tournaments, I buy 4-5 pairs of shoes not just for myself, but for a few other players as well."

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Kochi Blue Spikers' Deepesh Kumar Sinha expressed that his team will look to bounce back after going down 4-1 to Hyderabad Black Hawks in their last match, "We were quite confident about our chances before our first match against Hyderabad Black Hawks. We all put in our 100 percent but unfortunately, we couldn't be on the right side of the result. However, the confidence is still high within the group and we will try to better our performance in the next Prime Volleyball League game."

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When asked about how he moved up the levels in volleyball, the Middle Blocker said, "After completing the 12th standard, I had to go away from home to carry out volleyball training as there was not much scope for volleyball in Dantewada, the place where I grew up. There was not much craze and volleyball players in the district. I had gone to Gwalior to play the School Nationals. One Coach in the tournament saw me play and asked me to start practicing at a stadium in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh. I practiced there for two years. I learned all the basic volleyball techniques there. Thereafter, I moved up through the ranks in volleyball." 

The Bengaluru Torpedoes will be up against the Kochi Blue Spikers at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in the fourth match of the RuPay Prime Volleyball League in Hyderabad at 1900 hrs IST on Tuesday, 08 February 2022.

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