Disaster at home adds to pressure on players in Suzhou

The pressures on table tennis players at the world championships in Suzhou are intense, but Nepalese player Nabita Shrestha has the added burden of worrying about her family after the devastating earthquake struck her country on Saturday.

"It's really tough to play here knowing that an earthquake just happened at home. It has affected me, of course, because now there are 72 hours of critical conditions," Shrestha told China Daily on Sunday on the sidelines of the women's singles qualification round at the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships.

The death toll from the magnitude-7.9 earthquake, which struck near Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, rose to more than 3,700 on Monday.