{"id":68865,"date":"2019-08-24T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=68865"},"modified":"2019-08-24T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T11:31:00","slug":"badminton-world-championships-praneeth-enters-semifinals-assured-of-a-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/badminton-world-championships-praneeth-enters-semifinals-assured-of-a-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Badminton World Championships: Praneeth enters semifinals, assured of a medal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India&#8217;s B Sai Praneeth recorded a stunning straight-game win over Indonesia&#8217;s Jonatan Christie to seal the semifinal spot and end India&#8217;s 36-year agonising wait for a men&#8217;s singles medal at the BWF World Championships in Basel on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World No. 19 Praneeth, who was awarded the Arjuna Award this year, notched up a 24-22 21-14 win over Asian Games gold medallist and World No. 4 Jonatan in the quarterfinals to assure himself of a medal at the prestigious tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Badminton legend Prakash Padukone was the first Indian to win a men&#8217;s singles medal a bronze in the 1983 World Championship. Praneeth had won the Singapore Open in 2017 and finished runner-up in the Swiss Open early this year.<\/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>India&#8217;s B Sai Praneeth recorded a stunning straight-game win over Indonesia&#8217;s Jonatan Christie to seal the semifinal spot and end India&#8217;s 36-year agonising wait for a men&#8217;s singles medal at the BWF World Championships in Basel on Friday. World No. 19 Praneeth, who was awarded the Arjuna Award this year, notched up a 24-22 21-14 [&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":68866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68865","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\/68865","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=68865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68867,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68865\/revisions\/68867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}