{"id":214450,"date":"2023-04-07T00:21:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=214450"},"modified":"2023-04-07T00:21:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:51:11","slug":"orleans-masters-rajawat-stuns-nishimoto-to-enter-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/orleans-masters-rajawat-stuns-nishimoto-to-enter-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Orleans Masters: Rajawat stuns Nishimoto to enter quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Orleans, 6 Apr: India&#8217;s Priyanshu Rajawat notched up a stunning straight-game win over top seed Kenta Nishimoto of Japan to progress to the men&#8217;s singles quarterfinals of the Orleans Masters Super 300 badminton tournament here on Thursday.<br \/>\nWorld number 58 Rajawat showed immaculate skills and tactical acumen en route a 21-8, 21-16 win over world no. 12 Nishimoto, who had claimed the Madrid Spain Masters title on last Sunday.<br \/>\nRajawat, who was part of India&#8217;s Thomas Cup winning team, came out all guns blazing, galloping to a huge 10-0 lead in the opening game as Nishimoto found the going tough despite all his efforts, which saw him grab just eight points.<br \/>\nAfter the change of sides, the Japanese managed to move to a 6-2 advantage but Rajawat soon clawed back at 10-10.<br \/>\nNishimoto took a one-point cushion to go into the mid-game break but a burst of six points helped the Indian eke out a 16-11 lead.<br \/>\nThe Japanese once again led a fightback but Rajawat managed to keep his nose ahead. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orleans, 6 Apr: India&#8217;s Priyanshu Rajawat notched up a stunning straight-game win over top seed Kenta Nishimoto of Japan to progress to the men&#8217;s singles quarterfinals of the Orleans Masters Super 300 badminton tournament here on Thursday. World number 58 Rajawat showed immaculate skills and tactical acumen en route a 21-8, 21-16 win over world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-214450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}