{"id":11149,"date":"2017-11-25T11:33:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T11:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=11149"},"modified":"2017-11-25T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T11:33:51","slug":"pv-sindhu-reaches-hong-kong-open-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pv-sindhu-reaches-hong-kong-open-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"PV Sindhu reaches Hong Kong Open semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s ace shuttler PV Sindhu entered the semifinals of women&#8217;s singles of Hong Kong Open SuperSeries after posting a straight-game win over Akane Yamaguchi of Japan on Friday. Second seed Sindhu got the better of the Japanese fifth seed 21-12 21-19 in a contest that lasted 36 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Rio Olympic silver medallist will face Ratchanok Intanon in the last-four round.<\/p>\n<p>Sindhu, who has slipped a place to be number three in the world rankings, had an easy opening game as she dominated completely from the beginning till the end.<\/p>\n<p>In the second game, the Japanese girl gave a tough fight to Sindhu.<\/p>\n<p>After being tied 8-8, Yamaguchi surged ahead to 14-8 at one stage.<\/p>\n<p>But the Indian remained clam and slowly clawed her way back into the game, managing to catch up with her Japanese rival at 18-18.<\/p>\n<p>Sindhu was then quick to grab the next two points to take a 20-18 lead and wrapped up the match in style.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s ace shuttler PV Sindhu entered the semifinals of women&#8217;s singles of Hong Kong Open SuperSeries after posting a straight-game win over Akane Yamaguchi of Japan on Friday. Second seed Sindhu got the better of the Japanese fifth seed 21-12 21-19 in a contest that lasted 36 minutes. The Rio Olympic silver medallist will face [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11149","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\/11149","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=11149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11151,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions\/11151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}