{"id":42676,"date":"2018-09-22T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T11:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=42676"},"modified":"2018-09-22T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T11:37:16","slug":"kidambi-srikanths-campaign-ends-after-another-defeat-to-kento-momota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/kidambi-srikanths-campaign-ends-after-another-defeat-to-kento-momota\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidambi Srikanth&#8217;s campaign ends after another defeat to Kento Momota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Kidambi Srikanth Friday lost to reigning world champion Kento Momota in the quarterfinals, ending his campaign at the USD one million China Open BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Indian, who had a 3-7 head-to-head record against Momota, couldn&#8217;t find a chink in the Japanese&#8217;s armour, losing 9-21 11-21 to the world No.2 in a lop-sided contest.<\/p>\n<p>Srikanth had lost to Momota at the Malaysia Open and Indonesia Open in June and July respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian was no match for Momota, who has been in sensational form since making a comeback after serving a one year ban for visiting an illegal casino.<\/p>\n<p>Srikanth lagged 1-5 initially. He recovered to 4-5 with three straight points but couldn&#8217;t put up a fight as Momota surged to a huge 19-6 lead before pocketing the first game.<\/p>\n<p>The second game was no different as Momota moved from 4-3 to 13-3 with nine straight points. He continued to dominate the proceedings to seal the contest without much effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Kidambi Srikanth Friday lost to reigning world champion Kento Momota in the quarterfinals, ending his campaign at the USD one million China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42676","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\/42676","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=42676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42678,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42676\/revisions\/42678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}