{"id":44920,"date":"2018-10-20T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T12:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=44920"},"modified":"2018-10-20T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T12:06:12","slug":"saina-srikanth-storm-into-semifinals-of-denmark-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/saina-srikanth-storm-into-semifinals-of-denmark-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Saina, Srikanth storm into semifinals of Denmark Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth stormed into the semifinals of the Denmark Open with hard-fought victories over Nozomi Okuhara and Sameer Verma, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Saina, ranked 10th, recovered after the losing the first game to beat familiar foe and world number seven Okuhura of Japan 17-21, 21-16, 21-12 in the quarterfinal lasting 58 minutes on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The final point of the match was a long rally which ended with the Japanese finding the net. It was a morale boosting for the Indian star, having lost her previous three meetings to Okuhara including the most recent one in Korea last month.<\/p>\n<p>Saina had also lost to the 2017 World Champion during the team event at the Asian Games in August.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, their head-to-head record stands at 7-4 in the Indian\u2019s favour. Saina next faces world number 19 Gregoria Mariska Tunjung of Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth stormed into the semifinals of the Denmark Open with hard-fought victories over Nozomi Okuhara and Sameer Verma, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44920","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\/44920","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=44920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44922,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44920\/revisions\/44922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}