{"id":8410,"date":"2021-12-03T19:40:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T11:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2021-12-03T19:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T11:40:41","slug":"bwf-world-tour-finals-zii-jia-too-strong-in-group-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/12\/03\/bwf-world-tour-finals-zii-jia-too-strong-in-group-b\/","title":{"rendered":"BWF World Tour Finals: Zii Jia too strong in Group B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: National men&#8217;s singles ace, Lee Zii Jia, concluded his final Group B match with another win, this time over K. Srikanth\u00a0in the BWF (Badminton World Federation) World Tour Finals 2021 in Bali, Indonesia.<br \/>\nThe world number eight maintained his 100 per cent winning record in the\u00a0tournament after he swept past the Indian player 21-19, 21-14 in the event held in\u00a0Bali International Convention Centre, Nusa Dua.<br \/>\nThe win saw Zii Jia progressed to the semi-final as Group B champion while\u00a0Kunlavut Vitidsarn from Thailand was also through as runner-up.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, up-and-coming\u00a0women&#8217;s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah suffered their second loss at the hands of Tokyo Olympics gold medallist,\u00a0Greysia Polii-Apriyani Rahayu, 18-21, 11-21, and thus, ending\u00a0their journey in Bali, after they finished third in Group A.<br \/>\nIn the meantime, mixed doubles duo, Tan Kian Meng-Lai Pei Jing were also eliminated after they ended the campaign at the bottom of\u00a0the\u00a0Group A, following a 15-21, 17-21 defeat to\u00a0Denmark&#8217;s Mathias Christiansen-Alexandra Boje.<br \/>\n&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: National men&#8217;s singles ace, Lee Zii Jia, concluded his final Group B match with another win, this time over K. Srikanth\u00a0in the BWF (Badminton World Federation) World Tour Finals 2021 in Bali, Indonesia. The world number eight maintained his 100 per cent winning record in the\u00a0tournament after he swept past the Indian player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8411,"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-8410","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\/8410","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=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8412,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions\/8412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}