{"id":2603,"date":"2017-09-17T11:18:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T05:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2017-09-17T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T05:49:07","slug":"pv-sindhu-face-okuhara-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/pv-sindhu-face-okuhara-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"PV Sindhu Will Face Okuhara In The Korea Open Finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indian badminton sensation, PV Sindhu, has entered the finals of Korea open. She will face the world champion, Nozomi Okuhara<\/a> in the finals in Seoul. She will get a chance to avenge her loss at the World Badminton Championship, three weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Both these athletes faced each other in the finals of World Badminton Championship where Okuhara defeated PV Sindhu in a thrilling contest. Also, that was the longest women’s singles match at World finals. And now, both these athletes face-off once again to give fans yet another thriller.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n
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PV Sindhu Will Face Nozomi Okuhara In The Finals!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the semifinals, the shuttlers had contrasting victories against their respective opponents. World #1 proved why she is the currently the best and a force to reckon with as she defeated her opponent easily. She defeated\u00a0Akane Yamaguchi by\u00a021-17, 21-18. On the other hand, PV Sindhu had to go through quite a competition against He Bingjiao. However, she defeated Bingjiao by\u00a021-10, 17-21, 21-16 to proceed to the finals.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Times of India, PV Sindhu said:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

“It was a tough match today. Have to play a number of long rallies. I could have wrapped up in the second game itself, even though I was leading she came back and won the game. But in the third set, I did well from the start.”<\/em><\/p>\n

PV Sindhu has already won two Super Series titles. She is now just one win away to win her third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Indian badminton sensation, PV Sindhu, has entered the finals of Korea open. She will face the world champion, Nozomi Okuhara in the finals in Seoul. She will get a chance to avenge her loss at the World Badminton Championship, three weeks ago. Both these athletes faced each other in the finals of World Badminton …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1360],"tags":[2824,2825,2826,1825,1826],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-badminton-news","tag-akane-yamaguchi","tag-he-bingjiao","tag-korea-open","tag-nozomi-okuhara","tag-pv-sindhu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}