{"id":39965,"date":"2018-08-23T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T11:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=39965"},"modified":"2018-08-23T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T11:23:25","slug":"ankita-raina-settles-for-bronze-at-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ankita-raina-settles-for-bronze-at-asian-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankita Raina settles for bronze at Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palembang,<br \/>\nIndian tennis player Ankita Raina settled for a bronze medal at the Asian Games after losing to China\u2019s Zhang Shuai in the women\u2019s singles semifinal here on Thursday.<br \/>\nAnkita lost 4-6, 6-7 (6) in a gruelling contest that lasted a little over two hours.<br \/>\nIndia\u2019s best women\u2019s singles performance in the Games came from Saina Mirza, who notched up a silver in the 2006 edition in Doha, followed by a bronze by her in 2010, Guangzhou.<br \/>\nWith this bronze, the 25-year-old Ankita became only the second Indian woman to have her name in the Asian Games\u2019 singles medallists\u2019 list.<span class=\"storyText\">Both the losing semifinalists are entitled to a bronze each in the Games. <\/span><\/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>Palembang, Indian tennis player Ankita Raina settled for a bronze medal at the Asian Games after losing to China\u2019s Zhang Shuai in the women\u2019s singles semifinal here on Thursday. Ankita lost 4-6, 6-7 (6) in a gruelling contest that lasted a little over two hours. India\u2019s best women\u2019s singles performance in the Games came from [&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":39966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39965","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\/39965","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=39965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39967,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39965\/revisions\/39967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}