{"id":301160,"date":"2018-08-04T18:19:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T18:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301160"},"modified":"2018-08-04T18:19:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T18:19:29","slug":"pv-sindhu-reaches-finals-of-the-world-badminton-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pv-sindhu-reaches-finals-of-the-world-badminton-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"PV Sindhu reaches finals of the World Badminton Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301161 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PV-sindhu-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/PV-sindhu-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/PV-sindhu-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/PV-sindhu-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/PV-sindhu-696x523.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/PV-sindhu-558x420.jpg 558w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/PV-sindhu.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a well fought semifinal, PV Sindhu beat Japan&#8217;s former world number one Yamaguchi by 21-16, 24-22 to reach the\u00a0finals of the World Badminton Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We know each other&#8217;s game, we play very often, we played at the All England Championship. So we needed to be patient and consistent to win. I was prepared for long matches because both Yamaguchi and Okuhara are very good players and can go on and on in the rallies,&#8221; Sindhu said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It was a good match overall. I hope this time it would be a better result than the last time. I have to prepare well for tomorrow, so it&#8217;s not yet over,&#8221; Sindhu said after the match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sindhu will meet her Rio Olympic opponent Carolina Marin of Spain in the title match tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a well fought semifinal, PV Sindhu beat Japan&#8217;s former world number one Yamaguchi by 21-16, 24-22 to reach the\u00a0finals of the World Badminton Championship. &#8220;We know each other&#8217;s game, we play very often, we played at the All England Championship. So we needed to be patient and consistent to win. I was prepared for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4025,4023,4024],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301162,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301160\/revisions\/301162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}