{"id":1519,"date":"2022-06-12T13:49:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T13:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbaindia.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2022-07-13T07:45:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T07:45:46","slug":"thomas-cup-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Cup Champions !!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">India had never reached the final of Thomas Cup team badminton championship in its 73-year-long history but Kidambi Srikanth-led side ended that streak,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/sports\/badminton\/story\/amazing-moment-in-indian-sport-fans-salute-india-s-thomas-cup-feat-as-srikanth-s-men-reach-first-ever-final-1949263-2022-05-13\" target=\"_blank\">storming into the final<\/a>\u00a0after a stunning win over Denmark in the semi-final.<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-indiatoday-in\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"teads-ad\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1608816628908-0\" data-google-query-id=\"CJGO1IaGqPgCFb0ltwAdKsgE-g\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1007232\/Indiatoday_Teads_1x1_0__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1007232\/Indiatoday_Teads_1x1_0\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" role=\"region\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1007232\/Indiatoday_Teads_1x1_0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-google-container-id=\"8\" data-load-complete=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>India, who were not among the fancied teams in Thomas Cup, have punch<a href=\"http:\/\/bbaindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/124764260_gettyimages-1397383502-594x594.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1527\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bbaindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/124764260_gettyimages-1397383502-594x594-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/124764260_gettyimages-1397383502-594x594-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/124764260_gettyimages-1397383502-594x594-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/124764260_gettyimages-1397383502-594x594.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ed above their weight, disposing of 5-time champions Malaysia and Denmark, who are the first European champions, to reach their first-ever final at the prestigious tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India had never reached the final of Thomas Cup team badminton championship in its 73-year-long history but Kidambi Srikanth-led side ended that streak,\u00a0storming into the final\u00a0after a stunning win over Denmark in the semi-final. India, who were not among the fancied teams in Thomas Cup, have punched above their weight, disposing of 5-time champions Malaysia &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1,14,6],"tags":[23,22,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbaindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}