{"id":55188,"date":"2019-02-17T09:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T09:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=55188"},"modified":"2019-02-17T09:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T09:54:38","slug":"saina-beats-sindhu-to-retain-nationals-crown-sourabh-claims-third-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/saina-beats-sindhu-to-retain-nationals-crown-sourabh-claims-third-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Saina beats Sindhu to retain Nationals crown, Sourabh claims third title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saina Nehwal beat P V Sindhu in straight games in the marquee clash of the tournament to retain her women&#8217;s singles crown at the 83rd Yonex Sunrise Senior Badminton Nationals here Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saina had also defeated 2016 Rio Games silver medallist Sindhu at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games summit clash last year. Earlier, Sourabh Verma completed a hat-trick of titles at the Senior Badminton Nationals, claiming the men&#8217;s singles crown by defeating young Lakshya Sen in straight games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three-time former champion Saina used her powerful smashes to telling effect, registering a 21-18 21-15 win against Sindhu, a two-time winner, in the summit clash.<br>\nIn a repeat of last edition&#8217;s final in Nagpur, 2012 Olympics bronze medaliist Saina once again had the upper hand over Sindhu during the exciting clash which was witnessed by a capacity crowed at the TRP Indoor stadium here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 26-year-old from Madhya Pradesh, who had won the title in 2011 and 2017, showed great composure and tactical brilliance to outplay 17-year-old Lakshya, a Asian junior champion, 21-18 21-13 in a lop-sided contest. It was their second meeting at the Senior Nationals final, following Sourabh&#8217;s triump over Lakshya, 15 then, in February 2017.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In men&#8217;s doubles, second seeded makeshift pair of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Chirag Shetty clinched the title after beating top seeds Arjun MR and Shlok Ramchandran 21-13 22-20 in 33 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saina Nehwal beat P V Sindhu in straight games in the marquee clash of the tournament to retain her women&#8217;s singles crown at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55188","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\/55188","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=55188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55190,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55188\/revisions\/55190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}