{"id":22813,"date":"2021-09-04T17:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T11:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=145852"},"modified":"2021-09-04T17:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T11:43:53","slug":"tokyo-paralympics-manoj-sarkar-wins-bronze-medal-for-india-in-the-mens-singles-badminton-sl3-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-paralympics-manoj-sarkar-wins-bronze-medal-for-india-in-the-mens-singles-badminton-sl3-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Paralympics: Manoj Sarkar wins Bronze medal for India in the Men\u2019s singles Badminton SL3 category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Indian para-shuttler Manoj Sarkar wins bronze for India beating the Japanese international <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daisuke Fujihara 22-20 and 21-13 in the men\u2019s singles SL3 category.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Overjoyed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manojsarkar07?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@manojsarkar07<\/a>\u2019s wonderful performance. Congrats to him for bringing home the prestigious Bronze Medal in badminton. Wishing in the very best for the times ahead. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paralympics?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Paralympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Praise4Para?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Praise4Para<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1434111978134376451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Manoj Sarkar made his way through to the bronze medal match after defeating Ukraine\u2019s Oleksandr Chyrkov 21-16 and 21-9 in the knockout stages to finish in the second spot of Group A early in the competition. He ended up losing to Daniel Bethell of Great Britain in the semifinals bout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The game started with <\/span><span>Fujihara taking the lead 5-4. Sarkar came back and took the lead for the first time in the game with 7-6 in his favour. He further extended his lead and went on to win the first set in a nail-biting finish of\u00a0 22-20 to take the first set point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sarkar continued his form into the second set and took the lead early on by 3-2 in his favour. Sarkar took the game the second set by 21-13 to win India a bronze medal along with his countryman Pramod Bhagat<\/span><span>\u00a0who won the gold in the debut entry of badminton at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Arjuna awardee Manoj Sarkar had told TOI after his selection for the Paralympics, \u201cThe pandemic has been difficult for all of us but, the news of going to the Paralympics has brought positivity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manoj Sarkar beat Daisuke Fujihara to win the bronze medal match at the Paralympics in badminton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":42999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1120,2387,2628,2043],"class_list":["post-22813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-badminton","tag-cheer4india","tag-indian-paralympians","tag-tokyo-paralympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}