{"id":226914,"date":"2023-10-25T00:08:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=226914"},"modified":"2023-10-25T00:08:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:38:34","slug":"sindhu-satwik-chirag-storm-into-second-round-of-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/sindhu-satwik-chirag-storm-into-second-round-of-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Sindhu, Satwik-Chirag storm into second round of French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rennes, 24 Oct: India&#8217;s PV Sindhu quelled a strong challenge from Indonesia&#8217;s Gregoria Mariska Tunjung to enter the women&#8217;s singles second round of the French Open Super 750 badminton tournament here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sindhu prevailed over Tunjung 12-21, 21-18, 21-15 after 69 minutes of intense contest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, newly-crowned world number one pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stormed into the men&#8217;s doubles second round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Asian Games gold medallists, who had skipped the Denmark Open super 750 last week, beat world No. 34 Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar 21-13, 21-13 in a lop-sided contest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Satwik and Chirag will next meet three-time world champions Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan of Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2014 Asian Games gold medallists defeated Chinese Taipei&#8217;s Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took just 35 minutes for the Indian pair to get past Lucas and Ronan, who lagged behind right from the start as Satwik and Chirag dominated the proceedings, leading 11-6 at the interval and kept moving ahead to close the opening game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second game had a similar script as Satwik and Chirag jumped to a 11-6 advantage once again and kept their stranglehold to seal the issue. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rennes, 24 Oct: India&#8217;s PV Sindhu quelled a strong challenge from Indonesia&#8217;s Gregoria Mariska Tunjung to enter the women&#8217;s singles second round of the French Open Super 750 badminton tournament here on Tuesday. Sindhu prevailed over Tunjung 12-21, 21-18, 21-15 after 69 minutes of intense contest. Earlier, newly-crowned world number one pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy [&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-226914","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\/226914","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=226914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}