{"id":52817,"date":"2019-01-18T10:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=52817"},"modified":"2019-01-18T10:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:27:45","slug":"saina-nehwal-kidambi-srikanth-enter-quarters-of-malaysia-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/saina-nehwal-kidambi-srikanth-enter-quarters-of-malaysia-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth enter quarters of Malaysia Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth produced yet another fine display to progress to the quarterfinal of the Malaysia Masters in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Saina, seeded seventh, took 39 minutes to tame Hong Kong\u2019s Pui Yin Yip 21-14 21-16 in her second round women\u2019s singles encounter.The London Olympics bronze medallist will play second seed and 2017 world champion 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.In men\u2019s singles, Srikanth continued his unbeaten run with a hard-fought 23-21 8-21 21-18 win over Hong Kong\u2019s Wong Wing Ki Vincent to set up a fight with fourth seeded Korean Son Wan Ho.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh seeded Indian, who had a title-less run last season, has a 4-5 head-to-head count against the Korean world no 5. Former Commonwealth Games champion Parapulli Kashyap, however, bowed out of the tournament after his fight ended with a 17-21 23-25 loss to Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth produced yet another fine display to progress to the quarterfinal of the Malaysia Masters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52817","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\/52817","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=52817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52819,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52817\/revisions\/52819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}