{"id":10863,"date":"2022-03-20T07:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T23:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=10863"},"modified":"2022-03-20T07:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T23:14:56","slug":"all-england-lakshya-sen-ends-zii-jias-title-defence-run-in-the-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2022\/03\/20\/all-england-lakshya-sen-ends-zii-jias-title-defence-run-in-the-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"All England: Lakshya Sen ends Zii Jia&#8217;s title defence run in the semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: \u00a0National singles ace\u00a0Lee Zii Jia failed to defend his All England title after succumbing to India\u2019s\u00a0Lakshya Sen after three sets in the semi-finals at Utilita Arena Birmingham today.<br \/>\nBoth players traded points early on in the first set before\u00a0Sen pulled ahead,\u00a0winning it 21-13.<br \/>\nAs the game looked to be in Sen\u2019s favor, Zii Jia, 24, responded\u00a0with an energetic performance in the second set, storming to a 10-2 lead before winning it\u00a021-12.<br \/>\nIn the rubber set, Zi Jia who had lost to Sen in an international\u00a0series\u00a0in Hyderabad, India, in 2016, once again failed to match the 21-year-old challenger, who recorded a 21-19 victory.<br \/>\nIn tomorrow\u2019s final, Sen will either take on the tournament\u2019s number one seed, Viktor Axelsen of Denmark, or fourth seed from Taiwan, Chou Tien Chen.<br \/>\nThe latter two are expected to square off in the other semi-final action later today.<br \/>\n&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: \u00a0National singles ace\u00a0Lee Zii Jia failed to defend his All England title after succumbing to India\u2019s\u00a0Lakshya Sen after three sets in the semi-finals at Utilita Arena Birmingham today. Both players traded points early on in the first set before\u00a0Sen pulled ahead,\u00a0winning it 21-13. As the game looked to be in Sen\u2019s favor, Zii [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports-tech"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10865,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions\/10865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}