{"id":301905,"date":"2018-08-28T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T13:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301905"},"modified":"2018-08-28T13:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T13:38:54","slug":"asian-games-2018-pv-sindhu-wins-silver-in-womens-singles-badminton-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asian-games-2018-pv-sindhu-wins-silver-in-womens-singles-badminton-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: PV Sindhu wins silver in Women&#8217;s singles badminton match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301913 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Sindhu-asian-gaames-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Sindhu-asian-gaames-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Sindhu-asian-gaames-374x420.jpg 374w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Sindhu-asian-gaames.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/>Olympic medallist PV Sindhu won the silver medal on Tuesday at the Asian Games in Jakarta. Sindhu lost the Badminton women&#8217;s singles title clash to\u00a0Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei in straight games 13-21, 16-21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sindhu is the first Indian to reach the final of a singles event of Badminton at the Asian Games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">From the beginning of the match, Tai was in complete control by taking the first five points of the match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sindhu tried hard\u00a0to reduce the deficit to 4-6\u00a0but Tai consistently outsmarted Sindhu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Taipei player raced away to a 17-10 lead by perfectly using drop shots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PV Sindhu found it tough to anticipate as the first game was over in just 16 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At the beginning of the second game, Sindhu tried to push\u00a0Tai Tzu Ying to the back.\u00a0It got her points and the strategy worked at the start\u00a0to put the game level at 4-4,\u00a0but she lost too many points due to unforced errors\u00a0in an attempt at finding the lines and pushing up the tempo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It got over soon, with Tai Tzu Ying tightened her grip on the match and beating Sindhu by 16-21 in the second game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Sindhu and tweeted, &#8220;The formidable @Pvsindhu1 is one of India\u2019s most talented and inspiring athletes. Her skills and perseverance are noteworthy. She wins the prized Silver Medal in Badminton at the #AsianGames2018. Her accomplishment makes 125 crore Indians happy and proud.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic medallist PV Sindhu won the silver medal on Tuesday at the Asian Games in Jakarta. Sindhu lost the Badminton women&#8217;s singles title clash to\u00a0Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei in straight games 13-21, 16-21. Sindhu is the first Indian to reach the final of a singles event of Badminton at the Asian Games. From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4397,4023,4452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301905"}],"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=301905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301914,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301905\/revisions\/301914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}