{"id":47535,"date":"2018-11-18T08:20:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T08:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=47535"},"modified":"2018-11-18T08:20:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T08:20:34","slug":"paddler-manav-thakkar-settles-for-bronze-in-belarus-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/paddler-manav-thakkar-settles-for-bronze-in-belarus-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddler Manav Thakkar settles for bronze in Belarus Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Manav Thakkar settled for a bronze medal in the U-21 singles category while Harmeet Desai progressed to the pre-quarterfinals of the men&#8217;s singles in the ITTF Challenge Belgosstrakh Belarus Open on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Manav, who had an impressive run in the tournament, lost to Russia&#8217;s Denis Ivonin in the semifinals to miss out on the gold.<\/p>\n<p>He began well, winning the first game 11-5, but lost the next 4-11. They shared the next two games too but Ivonin had the last laugh, winning the hard-fought decider 11-9.<\/p>\n<p>Manav made a huge impact earlier, upsetting the U-21 World No. 8 from Japan, Yuki Matsuyama.<\/p>\n<p>Harmeet too impressed in his outing, beating Russia&#8217;s Alexey Liventsov 4-2. He took the opening game 11-9 but lost the next two (6-11, 10-12). The Indian then came into his own and won the next three (11-7, 11-6, 11-6 ) to enter the next round.<\/p>\n<p>He takes on China&#8217;s Zheng Sun in the pre-quarters. Manav, who also competed in the men&#8217;s singles, lost to Belgium&#8217;s Robin Devos 0-4 (3-11, 11-13, 13-15, 10-12).<\/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>India&#8217;s Manav Thakkar settled for a bronze medal in the U-21 singles category while Harmeet Desai progressed to the pre-quarterfinals of the men&#8217;s singles in the ITTF Challenge Belgosstrakh Belarus Open on Friday. Manav, who had an impressive run in the tournament, lost to Russia&#8217;s Denis Ivonin in the semifinals to miss out on the [&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":47536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47535","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\/47535","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=47535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47537,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47535\/revisions\/47537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}