{"id":44923,"date":"2018-10-20T12:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=44923"},"modified":"2018-10-20T12:06:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T12:06:47","slug":"srikanth-slays-dan-storms-into-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/srikanth-slays-dan-storms-into-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Srikanth slays Dan, storms into quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kidambi Srikanth defeated the legendary Lin Dan for the second time in his career to set up an all-Indian quarterfinal against Sameer Verma at the Denmark Open. World No. 6 Srikanth bounced back to beat the world No. 14 from China 18-21 21-17 21-16 in the second-round clash on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Dan, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and five-time world champion, is certainly not the player he used to be but is still a force to reckon with. Srikanth had famously scored his maiden win over Dan to win the 2014 China Open. With this win, Srikanth has a 2-3 head-to-head record against the Chinese legend.<\/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>Kidambi Srikanth defeated the legendary Lin Dan for the second time in his career to set up an all-Indian quarterfinal against Sameer Verma at the Denmark Open. World No. 6 Srikanth bounced back to beat the world No. 14 from China 18-21 21-17 21-16 in the second-round clash on Thursday night. Dan, a two-time Olympic [&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":44924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44923","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\/44923","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=44923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44925,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44923\/revisions\/44925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}