{"id":10092,"date":"2017-11-13T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=10092"},"modified":"2017-11-13T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:10:08","slug":"leander-paes-purav-raja-in-final-of-knoxville-challenger-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/leander-paes-purav-raja-in-final-of-knoxville-challenger-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Leander Paes-Purav Raja in final of Knoxville Challenger tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leander Paes and Purav Raja earned an opportunity to win their first title together by reaching the final of the ATP Knoxville Challenger event in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Top seeded Paes and Raja got past Ruan Roelofse and Joe Salisbury 7-6(4) 6-3 in the semifinals of the $75,000 hard court event.<\/p>\n<p>It will be first final for Paes and Raja after joining forces since in August, playing their first event at ATP 250 Winston-Salem.<\/p>\n<p>Paes has won three Challenger level titles this season &#8212; Leon and Ilkley events with Canadian Adil Shamasdin and Tallahassee trophy with American Scott Lipsky.<\/p>\n<p>Paes also made a number of semifinals at ATP 250 level and has not lost a final this season.<\/p>\n<p>Raja before teaming up with Paes had won Bordeaux Challenger with Divij Sharan and also made the final of the ATP 250 Chennai Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leander Paes and Purav Raja earned an opportunity to win their first title together by reaching the final of the ATP Knoxville Challenger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10094,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092\/revisions\/10094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}