{"id":3351,"date":"2017-11-14T14:57:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T09:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T09:28:11","slug":"saina-prannoy-aim-qualify-dubai-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/saina-prannoy-aim-qualify-dubai-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Saina, Prannoy aim to qualify for Dubai Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Saina Nehwal and H.S. Prannoy will look to enhance their chances of qualifying for the Dubai Super Series Finals.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3354\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/saina-and-pronnoy-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"saina and pronnoy, Dubai\" width=\"679\" height=\"380\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/saina-and-pronnoy-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/saina-and-pronnoy-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/saina-and-pronnoy-696x390.jpg 696w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/saina-and-pronnoy-750x420.jpg 750w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/saina-and-pronnoy.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saina Nehwal and HS Prannoy will look to enhance their chances of qualifying for the Dubai Superseries Finals. They have a good performance at the $700,000 China Open Superseries Premier in Fuzhou on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, both Saina and Prannoy are ranked 11th in the Dubai Ranking. They are racing against time to book a berth at next month\u2019s SuperSeries Final with just two events. China Open and Hong Kong Open \u2013 left in the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Saina, who clinched a bronze medal at the Glasgow World Championship, will open her campaign against USA\u2019s Beiwen Zhang, while Prannoy will face a qualifier in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>Both Saina and Prannoy are ranked 11th in the Destination Dubai Ranking and are racing against time to book a berth at next month\u2019s super series final with just two Super Series events.<\/p>\n<p>In the qualifiers Tuesday, Satwiksairaj and Ashwini will look to make it to the main draw when they face Chinese Taipei\u2019s Lee Jhe-Huei and Wu Ti Jung. In men\u2019s singles, Parupalli Kashyap will lock horns with Chinese Guo Kai in the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saina Nehwal and H.S. Prannoy will look to enhance their chances of qualifying for the Dubai Super Series Finals. Saina Nehwal and HS Prannoy will look to enhance their chances of qualifying for the Dubai Superseries Finals. They have a good performance at the $700,000 China Open Superseries Premier in Fuzhou on Tuesday. Interestingly, both &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1360],"tags":[4519,4518],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-badminton-news","tag-dubai","tag-saina-and-prannoy-are-ranked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","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=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}