{"id":40594,"date":"2018-08-30T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=40594"},"modified":"2018-08-30T10:05:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T10:05:05","slug":"sharath-manika-win-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sharath-manika-win-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharath-Manika win bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em; padding: 0em;\">Jakarta,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Indian table tennis contingent\u2019s dream run at the Asian Games got better today when the mixed doubles pairing of Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra exceeded its own expectations to win a historic bronze. The Kamal-led men\u2019s team had secured a bronze yesterday, ending India\u2019s 60-year-wait for a maiden medal at the Asiad. Today, Kamal and Batra played four matches and only the opener against Malaysia was comfortable. In the lead-up to the event, Kamal had slammed the scheduling of the competition.\u00a0 In the semifinals, Kamal and Batra made life tough for China\u2019s Yingsha Sun and Wang Sun before going down 9-11, 5-11, 13-11, 4-11, 8-11. In the pre-quarterfinals, they beat South Korea\u2019s Lee Sangsu and Jeon Jihee 11-7, 7-11, 11-8, 10-12, 11-4, before getting past North Korea\u2019s Cha Hyo Sim and An Ji Song 11-4, 10-12, 11-6, 6-11, 11-8 in the quarters.<\/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>Jakarta, \u00a0The Indian table tennis contingent\u2019s dream run at the Asian Games got better today when the mixed doubles pairing of Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra exceeded its own expectations to win a historic bronze. The Kamal-led men\u2019s team had secured a bronze yesterday, ending India\u2019s 60-year-wait for a maiden medal at the Asiad. Today, [&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":40595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40594","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\/40594","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=40594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40596,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40594\/revisions\/40596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}