{"id":45533,"date":"2024-09-20T13:47:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T13:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/20\/malvika-bansod-loses-to-akane-yamaguchi-in-china-open-quarters-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T13:47:16","slug":"malvika-bansod-loses-to-akane-yamaguchi-in-china-open-quarters-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/20\/malvika-bansod-loses-to-akane-yamaguchi-in-china-open-quarters-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Malvika Bansod Loses to Akane Yamaguchi in China Open Quarters &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Jiangsu<\/strong>: India\u2019s Malvika Bansod was defeated by Japan\u2019s Akane Yamaguchi with scores of 10-21, 16-21 in the China Open quarterfinals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaguchi, who is ranked eighth globally, secured a decisive straight-game win over the Indian player in just 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>This marked Bansod\u2019s third consecutive defeat to Yamaguchi, a former world number one.<\/p>\n<p>In the first game, Bansod from Nagpur struggled to keep pace as Yamaguchi quickly gained an eight-point advantage at 12-4, eventually winning the game 21-10.<\/p>\n<p>The second game saw a tighter competition, with Bansod keeping up until the score was tied at 15-all. However, Yamaguchi\u2019s superior skills prevailed, leaving Bansod behind.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 43rd, Bansod joined the ranks of PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal as the third Indian woman to reach the quarterfinals of a Super 1000 event, following her victory over Kristy Gilmour with scores of 21-17, 19-21, 21-16 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the 22-year-old had triumphed over Gregoria Mariska Tunjung of Indonesia, who won the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Jiangsu: India\u2019s Malvika Bansod was defeated by Japan\u2019s Akane Yamaguchi with scores of 10-21, 16-21 in the China Open quarterfinals on Friday. Yamaguchi, who is ranked eighth globally, secured a decisive straight-game win over the Indian player in just 35 minutes. This marked Bansod\u2019s third consecutive defeat to Yamaguchi, a former world number one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/download-109.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45535,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45533\/revisions\/45535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}