{"id":59091,"date":"2019-04-14T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T10:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=59091"},"modified":"2019-04-14T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T10:42:55","slug":"sindhu-gives-up-fight-against-okuhara-in-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sindhu-gives-up-fight-against-okuhara-in-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sindhu gives up fight against Okuhara in semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PV Sindhu  looked woefully out of form as she surrendered without a fight to  former world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the women\u2019s singles  semifinals at the Singapore Open badminton tournament. Sindhu lost 7-21  11-21 to world No. 3 Okuhara in a lopsided contest. Sindhu looked  completely out of sorts as she surrendered the first game in just 15  minutes after a series of unforced errors, mainly at the net and  sidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second game, Sindhu lagged 1-3 but recovered to\n make it 4-4. Okuhara then changed the pace of the rallies and gathered \nsix straight points, which included two precise lifts at the backline \nand also a prompt net return. The Japanese led 11-5 at the interval. \nOkuhara kept the pressure on Sindhu and eventually a round-the-head \ncrosscourt return took her to 18-8. Four wide shots delayed the \ninevitable before Okuhara grabbed nine match points with another superb \ncrosscourt smash. With another crosscourt return, Okuhara sealed her \nplace in the final.\n\n<\/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>PV Sindhu looked woefully out of form as she surrendered without a fight to former world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the women\u2019s singles semifinals at the Singapore Open badminton tournament. Sindhu lost 7-21 11-21 to world No. 3 Okuhara in a lopsided contest. Sindhu looked completely out of sorts as she surrendered 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":59092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59091","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\/59091","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=59091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59093,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59091\/revisions\/59093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}