{"id":106299,"date":"2022-07-05T13:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T08:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=106299"},"modified":"2022-07-05T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T08:25:17","slug":"badminton-as-an-emerging-game-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=106299","title":{"rendered":"Badminton as an emerging game  in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Jul 04, 2022 (TNS): Badminton as an emerging game  in Pakistan is gaining immense popularity, especially among youth. To enhance and promote badminton culture, the event titled &#8220;1st All Pakistan Badminton Ranking tournament 2022&#8221; is being organized by Pakistan Badminton Federation (PBF) with the support of the Pakistan Army .<br \/>\nAn impressive inauguration ceremony was held at Garrison Sports Club Bahawalpur, thus officially starting the Championship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/badminton1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/badminton1.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/badminton1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/badminton1-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/badminton1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/badminton1-696x464.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/badminton1-1068x712.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/badminton1-630x420.jpeg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A total of 164 players (119 men &#038; 45 women) and 12 officials from national departments and provincial players from respective divisions are participating in the event. The event is divided into three categories, three rounds and similarly, three finals. Amongst three categories of matches, a total of 48 matches were played today including 32x men\u2019s single and 16 women\u2019s single as a part of the main round.<br \/>\nAll the winning players will compete in quarter-finals that later will be followed by semifinals and grand finale. Highest Cash Prize worth Rs 1.5 m will be awarded to the winning players. Apart from the matches, Badminton Day will be marked on July 5 during the tournament.<br \/>\nThis tournament is an initiative to promote talent for less played games like badminton. This event will not only provide a chance to young players to display their talent for badminton but also bring players to national and international levels for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Jul 04, 2022 (TNS): Badminton as an emerging game in Pakistan is gaining immense popularity, especially among youth. To enhance and promote badminton culture, the event titled &#8220;1st All Pakistan Badminton Ranking tournament 2022&#8221; is being organized by Pakistan Badminton Federation (PBF) with the support of the Pakistan Army . An impressive inauguration ceremony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106302,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106299\/revisions\/106302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}