{"id":43129,"date":"2018-09-27T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=43129"},"modified":"2018-09-27T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T12:00:08","slug":"saina-nehwal-sails-into-quarter-final-of-korean-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/saina-nehwal-sails-into-quarter-final-of-korean-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Saina Nehwal sails into quarter-final of Korean Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former world number one Saina Nehwal booked her spot in the quarter-final of the ongoing Korea Open by defeating Kim Ga Eun of South Korea in the pre-quarters of the women&#8217;s singles event Quarter-final here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old thrashed her South Korean opponent 21-18, 21-18 in a clash that lasted 36 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Displaying a dominating performance in the match, the Indian shuttler did not break much sweat as she registered a convincing win in both the games. Making a strong start to the first game, Nehwal opened with a dominating 6-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>As the scoreline reached 10-2 in India&#8217;s favour, the South Korean earned four consecutive points to lessen the point gap to 10-6. Ga Eun continued with her attacking shots and made a spectacular comeback by levelling the game 16-16. Following the setback, Indian shuttler rose to the occasion<\/p>\n<p>The second game started on the same note as the first one but this time it was the South Korean shuttler who ran away with an initial lead of five points. Putting up a hard fight on the court, Nehwal clinched back to back points to level the scores at 13-13.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian shuttler did not look back after that and went on to take the game 21-18.<\/p>\n<p>Nehwal is the only Indian left in the tournament after Sameer Verma and Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka crashed out on Wednesday.<\/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>Former world number one Saina Nehwal booked her spot in the quarter-final of the ongoing Korea Open by defeating Kim Ga Eun of South Korea in the pre-quarters of the women&#8217;s singles event Quarter-final here on Thursday. The 28-year-old thrashed her South Korean opponent 21-18, 21-18 in a clash that lasted 36 minutes. Displaying a [&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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43129","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=43129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43131,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43129\/revisions\/43131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}