{"id":47632,"date":"2018-11-19T10:36:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=47632"},"modified":"2018-11-19T10:36:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:36:56","slug":"pv-sindhu-to-skip-syed-modi-event-wants-to-focus-on-world-tour-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pv-sindhu-to-skip-syed-modi-event-wants-to-focus-on-world-tour-final\/","title":{"rendered":"PV Sindhu to skip Syed Modi event, wants to focus on World Tour Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Defending champion P V Sindhu has decided to skip the Syed Modi International World Tour Super 300 tournament to focus on next month&#8217;s BWF World Tour Final in China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Indian is placed fifth in the &#8216;Race to Guangzhou&#8217; ranking to qualify for the USD 1,500,000 World Tour Final, which will be held in the Chinese city for the first time from December 12-16.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has also informed the organisers and national coach P Gopichand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Olympic silver medallist Sindhu has continued her sensational form this season, claiming silver medals at major events such as the Commonwealth Games, World Championship and Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p>She also reached the finals of the India Open and Thailand Open, besides producing her best performance at the All England Open Championships with a semifinal finish.<\/p>\n<p>The World Tour Final, which showcases the elite top eight players, will be Sindhu&#8217;s 18th tournament this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a prestigious tournament and she will need to be at her peak to win a medal. So at least 20 days of training would be required to be in good shape,&#8221; said Ramana.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Sindhu&#8217;s third appearance at the year-ending event. She had qualified in the 2016 edition, losing in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion P V Sindhu has decided to skip the Syed Modi International World Tour Super 300 tournament to focus on next month&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47632","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\/47632","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=47632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47634,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47632\/revisions\/47634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}