{"id":63031,"date":"2019-06-06T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T10:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=63031"},"modified":"2019-06-06T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T10:38:48","slug":"pv-sindhu-sameer-verma-enter-second-round-at-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pv-sindhu-sameer-verma-enter-second-round-at-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"PV Sindhu, Sameer Verma enter second round at Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India had a mixed day in office as top shuttlers P V Sindhu and Sameer Verma progressed to the second round but HS Prannoy made an early exit at the USD 150,000 Australian Open World Tour Super 300 tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among others, former Singapore Open champion B Sai Praneeth, who had reached the finals at Swiss Open this year, beat Korea&#8217;s Lee Dong Keun 21-16 21-14, to set up a clash with second seed Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap also cleared the opening hurdle, entering the second round with a 21-16 21-15 win over Thailand&#8217;s Suppanyu Avihingsanon. He will next cross swords with Lin Dan, who recently won the Malaysia Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World No 5 Sindhu, a silver medallist at Rio Olympics and 2017 and 2018 World championship, defeated Indonesia&#8217;s Choirunnisa 21-14 21-9 in a lop-sided contest in women&#8217;s singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sixth seed Sameer exacted revenge against Malaysia&#8217;s Lee Zii Jia 21-15 16-21 21-12 in a thrilling opening round men&#8217;s singles match. The Indian had lost to Lee at the Sudirman Cup last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 25-year-old from Madhya Pradesh, who had reached the semifinals at World Tour Finals, will square off against Chinese Taipei&#8217;s Wang Tzu Wei in second round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Prannoy found the going tough against Lin Dan, going down 18-21 19-21 to the eighth seeded Chinese legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In men&#8217;s doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeated compatriots Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy 21-12 21-16 to enter the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India had a mixed day in office as top shuttlers P V Sindhu and Sameer Verma progressed to the second round but HS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63031","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\/63031","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=63031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63034,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63031\/revisions\/63034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}