{"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","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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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}]}}