{"id":2866,"date":"2017-08-24T10:55:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2017-08-24T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:55:29","slug":"indian-juggernaut-rolls-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/indian-juggernaut-rolls-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian juggernaut rolls on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saina, Srikanth, Praneeth enter pre-quarterfinals at the Worlds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Glasgow,<br \/>\nThe Indian juggernaut at the Badminton World Championships continued to roll as Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth and Sai Praneeth entered the pre- quarterfinals here today. After Saina brushed aside the challenge of Switzerland\u2019s Sabrina Jaquet in straight games, Praneeth survived a scare from Indonesia\u2019s Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, while Srikanth steamrolled France\u2019s Lucas Corvee to stay in the hunt for a medal.<\/p>\n<p>London Olympics bronze medallist Saina hardly broke a sweat as she cruised past her Swiss rival 21-11 21-12 in just 33 minutes. \u201cIt was a tricky match. Sabrina is a formidable opponent but I am happy that I overpowered her,\u201d said Saina. \u201cIt is always tough to play the first round but once you get used to the conditions, it gets better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>World No. 8 Srikanth also dished out a clinical performance, beating Corvee 21-9 21-17 to set up a clash with 14th seed Anders Antonsen of Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Singapore Open champion Praneeth bounced back from a game down to outwit world No. 26 Ginting 14-21 21-18 21-19 in a contest that lasted 72 minutes. \u201cIt was a very tough match,\u201d said Praneeth. \u201cThe shuttles were really slow, so the rallies went longer. I could not match him initially but slowly adjusted to his speed. He is a tough player and his game has improved a lot since I last played him.\u201d<\/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>Saina, Srikanth, Praneeth enter pre-quarterfinals at the Worlds Glasgow, The Indian juggernaut at the Badminton World Championships continued to roll as Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth and Sai Praneeth entered the pre- quarterfinals here today. After Saina brushed aside the challenge of Switzerland\u2019s Sabrina Jaquet in straight games, Praneeth survived a scare from Indonesia\u2019s Anthony Sinisuka [&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":2867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","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\/2866","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=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}