{"id":57166,"date":"2019-03-17T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T10:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=57166"},"modified":"2019-03-17T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T10:53:41","slug":"praneeth-stuns-olympic-champion-chen-long-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/praneeth-stuns-olympic-champion-chen-long-of-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Praneeth stuns Olympic champion Chen Long of China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Badminton, Shuttler B Sai Praneeth toppled world number five and reigning Olympic champion Chen Long to breeze into the final of the men&#8217;s singles event of the Swiss Open at Basel in Switzerland on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World number 22 Praneeth initially faced stiff resistance from the former Chinese world number one and Rio Olympic gold medallist before prevailing 21-18 21-13 in the semifinal clash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was Praneeth&#8217;s first win over Long in three attempts. He had lost to him at the Indonesian Master early this year and at Asian Championship last year in April. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Praneeth will now fight it out with top seed Chinese Shi Yuki in the final today, which will be his first since the Thailand Open victory in June 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Badminton, Shuttler B Sai Praneeth toppled world number five and reigning Olympic champion Chen Long to breeze into the final of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57166","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\/57166","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=57166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57168,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57166\/revisions\/57168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}