{"id":225937,"date":"2023-10-12T00:06:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=225937"},"modified":"2023-10-12T00:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:36:14","slug":"srikanth-kiran-enter-second-round-of-arctic-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/12\/srikanth-kiran-enter-second-round-of-arctic-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Srikanth, Kiran enter second round of Arctic Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vantaa, 11 Oct: Indian shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Kiran George progressed to the men&#8217;s singles prequarterfinals but it was curtains for Mithun Manjunath at the Arctic Open Super 500 badminton tournament, here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former world number one Srikanth, who was a part of India&#8217;s silver medal winning team at the Asian Games, sailed into the second round after his German opponent Max Weisskirchen retired while lagging 6-11.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kiran, who had claimed his second BWF World Tour Super 100 title by lifting the Indonesia Masters trophy last month, stunned France&#8217;s Toma Junior Popov 24-22, 15-21, 21-15 in a 73-minute clash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Srikanth will face either of Japan&#8217;s Kanta Tsuneyama or Indonesia&#8217;s Shesar Hiren Rhustavito next, while Kiran will clash with the fourth-seeded Lu Guang Zu of China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manjunath, however, suffered a 19-21, 14-21 defeat against China&#8217;s Weng Hong Yang to bow out. He had lost to the Chinese in the men&#8217;s team championships final at the Hangzhou Asian Games as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, the mixed pair of Sai Pratheek and Tanisha Crasto and the women&#8217;s combination of Rutuparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda also exited after losing their respective opening round matches. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vantaa, 11 Oct: Indian shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Kiran George progressed to the men&#8217;s singles prequarterfinals but it was curtains for Mithun Manjunath at the Arctic Open Super 500 badminton tournament, here on Wednesday. Former world number one Srikanth, who was a part of India&#8217;s silver medal winning team at the Asian Games, sailed into [&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-225937","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\/225937","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=225937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}