{"id":307063,"date":"2018-12-16T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T08:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307063"},"modified":"2018-12-16T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T08:56:41","slug":"pv-sindhu-beats-nozomi-okuhara-becomes-1st-indian-to-win-bwf-world-tour-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pv-sindhu-beats-nozomi-okuhara-becomes-1st-indian-to-win-bwf-world-tour-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"PV Sindhu beats Nozomi Okuhara, becomes 1st Indian to win BWF World Tour Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/pv-sindhu-beats-nozomi-okuhara-becomes-1st-indian-to-win-bwf-world-tour-finals\/sindhu-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307064\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307064 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sindhu-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sindhu-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sindhu-406x420.jpg 406w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sindhu.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a>PV Sindhu on Sunday became the first Indian to win the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals tournament. Sindhu claimed a 21-19, 21-17 win against the Japanese Nozomi Okuhara in the title clash\u00a0in Guangzhou, China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sindhu put in a brilliant all-round display to give no chance to Okuhara in the final. The World No 6 won the finals outclassing Nozomi Okuhara in a scintillating encounter that witnessed the year&#8217;s 8 best players fought for the coveted title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While speaking to media after the tournament, Sindhu said, &#8220;People always ask me that i don&#8217;t win the finals but here I am, I have won the gold and proud of it.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Previously,\u00a0Saina Nehwal\u00a0had reached the summit clash of 2011 World Super Series Finals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PV Sindhu on Sunday became the first Indian to win the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals tournament. Sindhu claimed a 21-19, 21-17 win against the Japanese Nozomi Okuhara in the title clash\u00a0in Guangzhou, China. Sindhu put in a brilliant all-round display to give no chance to Okuhara in the final. The World No 6 won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[10299,4023],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307063"}],"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=307063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307066,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307063\/revisions\/307066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}