{"id":333621,"date":"2021-08-28T05:05:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T10:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333621"},"modified":"2021-08-28T05:15:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T10:45:44","slug":"pm-congratulates-bhavina-patel-for-her-performance-at-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-congratulates-bhavina-patel-for-her-performance-at-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"PM congratulates Bhavina Patel for her performance at Tokyo Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-333622\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Untitled-design-12-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/Untitled-design-12-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/Untitled-design-12-3-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/Untitled-design-12-3-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/Untitled-design-12-3-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/Untitled-design-12-3-696x387.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/Untitled-design-12-3-1068x594.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/Untitled-design-12-3-756x420.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Bhavina Patel for her performance in Paralympics and conveyed the country\u2019s support for her success tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India\u2019s table tennis player Bhavina Patel created history at the Tokyo Paralympics on Saturday when she astonished her world world no. 3 Chinese competitor 3-2 to become the first table tennis player from the country to reach the final of the Paralympic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was Patel\u2019s first victory against the former world number one Zhang Miao of China in the women\u2019s singles Class four semi-final matches. The two players had met 11 times before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister tweeted, \u201cCongratulations Bhavina Patel! You played excellently. The entire nation is praying for your success and will be cheering for you tomorrow. Give your best and play without any pressure. Your accomplishments inspire the entire nation. #Paralympics,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bhavina won this match by 7-11, 11-7, 11-4, 9-11, 11-8. She is the first athlete in the country to reach the women\u2019s singles event of table tennis at the Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Bhavina Patel for her performance in Paralympics and conveyed the country\u2019s support for her success tomorrow. India\u2019s table tennis player Bhavina Patel created history at the Tokyo Paralympics on Saturday when she astonished her world world no. 3 Chinese competitor 3-2 to become the first table tennis player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":333622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,31,53],"tags":[14554,14555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333621"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333627,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333621\/revisions\/333627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}