{"id":28758,"date":"2018-04-21T12:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T12:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=28758"},"modified":"2018-04-21T12:27:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T12:27:06","slug":"manika-batra-harmeet-desai-recommended-for-arjuna-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/manika-batra-harmeet-desai-recommended-for-arjuna-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Manika Batra, Harmeet Desai recommended for Arjuna Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Table Tennis Federation of India on Friday recommended Manika Batra, the country\u2019s only quadruple medallist at the Commonwealth Games, for Arjuna Award. Harmeet Desai has also been recommended for the prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sent her nomination today. With such a strong performance in Gold Coast, it will be very difficult for the (government) committee to ignore her,\u201d a TTFI official told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>Batra created history in Gold Coast, single-handedly taking India to a maiden team gold before winning a singles gold, another first.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old beat world number four and triple Olympic medallist, Feng Tianwei of Singapore, twice in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>She also secured a women\u2019s doubles silver alongside Mouma Das and mixed doubles bronze with G Sathiyan. Her next assignment is the World Team Championships in Sweden from April 29.<\/p>\n<p>Harmeet Desai, who was part of the men\u2019s team that won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, has also been recommended for the Arjuna Award.<\/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>The Table Tennis Federation of India on Friday recommended Manika Batra, the country\u2019s only quadruple medallist at the Commonwealth Games, for Arjuna Award. Harmeet Desai has also been recommended for the prestigious award. \u201cWe sent her nomination today. With such a strong performance in Gold Coast, it will be very difficult for the (government) committee [&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":28759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28758","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\/28758","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=28758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28760,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758\/revisions\/28760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}