{"id":49965,"date":"2018-12-14T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=49965"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:47:59","slug":"bwf-world-tour-finals-sindhu-beats-defending-champion-yamaguchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/bwf-world-tour-finals-sindhu-beats-defending-champion-yamaguchi\/","title":{"rendered":"BWF World Tour Finals : Sindhu beats defending champion Yamaguchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s P.V. Sindhu on Wednesday beat world number two and defending champion Akane Yamaguchi of Japan 24-22, 21-15 in her opening match of the BWF World Tour Finals in Guangzhou.<\/p>\n<p>World number six Sindhu, who lost last year\u2019s final to Yamaguchi in Dubai, saved two game points in the opening game and took the match in 55 minutes, reports Efe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to start well in the group stage. I was nervous towards the end of the first game but once I won that game I played better,\u201d the 23-year-old Indian Olympic silver medallist said after the match, according to an official BWF report.<\/p>\n<p>Sindhu trailed in both games but absorbed the pressure and fought back each time with a mix of aggression and patience.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaguchi said she may have been too defensive against her opponent and would be hoping to repeat last year\u2019s performance, when she went on to win the tournament despite a first-round loss to Sindhu.<\/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\u2019s P.V. Sindhu on Wednesday beat world number two and defending champion Akane Yamaguchi of Japan 24-22, 21-15 in her opening match of the BWF World Tour Finals in Guangzhou. World number six Sindhu, who lost last year\u2019s final to Yamaguchi in Dubai, saved two game points in the opening game and took the match [&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":49966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49965","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\/49965","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=49965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49967,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49965\/revisions\/49967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}