{"id":1193,"date":"2017-11-11T12:38:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T12:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:41:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:41:06","slug":"tandon-beats-top-seed-borja-in-cci-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2017\/11\/11\/tandon-beats-top-seed-borja-in-cci-squash\/","title":{"rendered":"TANDON BEATS TOP SEED BORJA IN CCI SQUASH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major upset in the CCI International Squash, Ramit Tandon of India (world No 201) beat top seed Borja Golan (No 18) of Spain in a gruelling five-set thriller. It was a seesaw battle that lasted for 89 minutes during which time Tandon fought hard to beat the fancied Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailychakra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171109093237_WC-Ramit-Tandon-IND-beat-3-2-1-Borja-Golan-ESP-11-8-7-11-6-11-11-6-11-8-89-mins_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedailychakra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171109093237_WC-Ramit-Tandon-IND-beat-3-2-1-Borja-Golan-ESP-11-8-7-11-6-11-11-6-11-8-89-mins_4-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tandon, who was a wild card entrant, won the first game 11-8 but lost the next two 7-11 and 6-11, before bouncing back with 11-6 and 11-8 scores in the final two games.<\/p>\n<p>Tandon\u2019s win has enthused experts and organisers. \u201cThis is big for Ramit and for Indian squash. It will give a huge boost to his confidence as well as his world ranking. Superb performance, beating Borja in five games&#8230;\u201d, Ritwik Bhattacharya, a former national champion and a promoter of the event, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major upset in the CCI International Squash, Ramit Tandon of India (world No 201) beat top seed Borja Golan (No 18) of Spain in a gruelling five-set thriller. It was a seesaw battle that lasted for 89 minutes during which time Tandon fought hard to beat the fancied Spaniard. Tandon, who was a wild card &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[478,479,485,486,484,481,480,483,487,477,482],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-borja","tag-cci-squash","tag-fancied-spaniard","tag-final-two-games","tag-gruelling-five-set-thrille","tag-india-world-no-201","tag-ramit-tando","tag-spain","tag-superb-performance","tag-tandon","tag-top-seed-borja-golan"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}