{"id":52765,"date":"2019-01-17T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=52765"},"modified":"2019-01-17T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T10:52:10","slug":"saina-nehwal-enters-quarters-of-malaysia-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/saina-nehwal-enters-quarters-of-malaysia-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Saina Nehwal enters quarters of Malaysia Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal on Thursday entered the women\u2019s singles quarterfinal of the Malaysia Masters with a straight-game win over Hong Kong\u2019s Pui Yin Yip in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>Saina, seeded seventh, took 39 minutes to tame Yip 21-14 21-16 in her second round encounter.Saina will play second seed Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the last-eight stage of the first Super 500 tournament of the year on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>World no. 9 Saina holds an 8-4 overall head-to-head record against Okuhara, which includes back-to-back wins over the current world no.2 in the last two tournaments last year\u2019s Demark Open and the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>If Saina manages to go past Okuhara, the Indian might run into fourth seed Carolina Marin, who is placed in her half of the draw.Later on Thursday, seventh seed Kidambi Srikanth will take on Vincent Wing Ki Wong of Hong Kong in a men\u2019s singles second round match, while Saina\u2019s husband Parupalli Kashyap will be up against sixth seed Anthony Sinisuka Gingting of Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>In women\u2019s doubles, the Indian pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N. Siki Reddy will square off against Indonesia\u2019s Ni Ketut Mahadewi Istarani and Rizki Amelia Pradipta in a second round tie.<\/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>Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal on Thursday entered the women\u2019s singles quarterfinal of the Malaysia Masters with a straight-game win over Hong Kong\u2019s Pui Yin Yip in Kuala Lumpur. Saina, seeded seventh, took 39 minutes to tame Yip 21-14 21-16 in her second round encounter.Saina will play second seed Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in 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":52766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52765","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\/52765","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=52765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52767,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52765\/revisions\/52767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}