{"id":215171,"date":"2021-07-30T19:45:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=215171"},"modified":"2021-07-30T19:45:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:15:51","slug":"pv-sindhu-ensures-olympic-medal-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/pv-sindhu-ensures-olympic-medal-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"PV Sindhu ensures Olympic medal for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PV Sindhu looks like a player on a mission as she stormed into the semi-final of the women&#8217;s singles badminton competition at the Tokyo Olympics with a stunning 21-13, 22-20 win over Japan\u2019s Akane Yamaguchi. Sindhu is now just one more win away from ensuring a second consecutive Olympic medal, to add to the silver she had won at the 2016 Rio Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The `Smiling Sindhu with all her cool and calm composure, yet again, was in awesome form. But Yamaguchi fought brilliantly particularly in the second game when she trailed by six points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Japanese put the Indian in a spot of trouble as she was 20-18 but Sindhu saved the game points with two deadly smashes before finishing off the match with a down-the-line smash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yamaguchi, quick on her feet with amazing court coverage, raced to an early lead in the first game with her deft shots. But Sindhu soon made a fine recovery, making her opponent toil hard for every point. Sindhu combined attack and defence and made some great calls on the line to race to a 10-7 lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PV Sindhu looks like a player on a mission as she stormed into the semi-final of the women&#8217;s singles badminton competition at the Tokyo Olympics with a stunning 21-13, 22-20 win over Japan\u2019s Akane Yamaguchi. Sindhu is now just one more win away from ensuring a second consecutive Olympic medal, to add to the silver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":215172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[1742,31225],"class_list":["post-215171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-pv-sindhu","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PV-Sindhu-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}