{"id":59,"date":"2021-01-20T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=86783"},"modified":"2021-01-20T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:48:26","slug":"toyota-thailand-open-2021-indian-shuttler-b-sai-praneeth-tests-covid-19-positive-ruled-out-of-the-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/toyota-thailand-open-2021-indian-shuttler-b-sai-praneeth-tests-covid-19-positive-ruled-out-of-the-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Thailand Open 2021: Indian Shuttler B Sai Praneeth tests  COVID-19 positive, ruled out of the tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Thailand Open 2021: Indian badminton player B. Sai Praneeth was tested COVID positive on Monday. Sai has been ruled out of the tournament as per protocols. \u201cBadminton World Federation (BWF)\u00a0 confirmed India player B.Sai Praneeth has been tested positive for COVID-19 and has been withdrawn from the TOYOTA Thailand Open,\u201d BWF said on Tuesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Kidambi Srikanth an ace shuttler, room partner of B.Sai was also forced to withdraw as per the protocols laid by BWF. \u00a0<strong><em>\u201cIn line with BWF protocols, Kidambi has been withdrawn from the TOYOTA Thailand Open and is in strict self-quarantine,\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Badminton World Federation (BWF) said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Every other Indian player has cleared the mandatory round of PCR testing returning negative and hence allowed to compete further in the tournament. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Saina Nehwal and HS Prannoy had returned positive for COVID-19 results. When they went for PCR testing last week. However, they were later cleared to compete in the\u00a0 Thailand Open after they tested negative in the latest round of testing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand Open 2021: Indian badminton player B. Sai Praneeth was tested COVID positive on Monday. Sai has been ruled out\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":23202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1121,1297,1327,76],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-bwf","tag-hs-prannoy","tag-kidambi-srikanth","tag-saina-nehwal"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}