{"id":5893,"date":"2017-09-24T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2017-09-24T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:44:26","slug":"pranaav-sikki-lose-in-japan-open-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pranaav-sikki-lose-in-japan-open-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Pranaav-Sikki lose in Japan Open semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo<br \/>\nIndia\u2019s campaign ended at the Japan Open Super Series badminton tournament after the mixed doubles pair of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy suffered a narrow loss in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Chopra and Reddy squandered the opening game advantage to go down 21-14 15-21 19-21 to the local pair of Takuro Hoki and Sayaka Hirota. During the 60-minute battle, the Indian pair fought hard, getting an early 7-4 lead which was erased by the Japanese combo quickly at 9-9. But the Indians moved ahead with a short burst of points to grab the opening game comfortably.<\/p>\n<p>Takuro and Sayaka changed gears in the second game and led 4-1 and 11-8. Chopra and Reddy reduced the deficit to 13-15 before the Japanese combo walked away with the game to push the contest to the decider.<\/p>\n<p>The final game turned to be a rollercoaster ride as the two teams fought tooth and nail till 8-8, after which the Japanese pair opened up a 13-9 lead. They then led by at least two points until the Indians caught up at 18-19. However, Takuro and Sayaka managed to grab two of the next three points to seal the match at 20-19.<\/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>Tokyo India\u2019s campaign ended at the Japan Open Super Series badminton tournament after the mixed doubles pair of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy suffered a narrow loss in the semifinals. Chopra and Reddy squandered the opening game advantage to go down 21-14 15-21 19-21 to the local pair of Takuro Hoki and Sayaka [&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":5894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5893","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\/5893","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=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions\/5895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}