{"id":21205,"date":"2017-02-04T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=21205"},"modified":"2017-02-04T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T12:39:00","slug":"doubles-victory-gives-pakistan-an-unassailable-lead-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2017\/02\/doubles-victory-gives-pakistan-an-unassailable-lead-over-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubles victory gives Pakistan an unassailable lead over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-21205-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Davis-Cup-Pakistan-leads-with-3-0.flv?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Davis-Cup-Pakistan-leads-with-3-0.flv\">http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Davis-Cup-Pakistan-leads-with-3-0.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Feb 4 (APP): Pakistan have won their Davis Cup tie first round against Iran with Aqeel Khan and Aisam-ul-Haq storming to a straight-sets win in the doubles at Sports Complex Islamabad.<br \/>\nFollowing the singles success on Friday, Aqeel and Aisam posted a 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 win over Alborz Akhavan and Anoosha Shahgholi on Saturday to give Pakistan an unassailable 3-0 lead.<br \/>\nThe victory sealed Pakistan a Davis Cup second round against Vietnam or Hong Kong, China.<br \/>\nAlborz and Anoosha had no answer to experienced Pakistani combination, Aqeel and Aisam got early edge in first set with irrecoverable 6-1 lead, which sealed the physiological victory over Iranians and maintained till third set.<br \/>\nPakistani captain Malik Rashid said it was a fantastic team effort. \u201cThe boys came out and did all the hard preparation and it\u2019s nice to know that all the hard work paid off,\u201d Rashid said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a fantastic team effort and I couldn\u2019t be prouder of these guys.\u201d<br \/>\nExpressing his hope to host second round in home Malik Rashid said that grass court is Ideal for us, we have beaten all top teams in Asia and we are looking forward to continue the momentum.<br \/>\nPakistan top seed player Aisam-ul-Haq said that it was a wonderful felling to play in front of home crowd, he said hosting such event in country boost the morale of junior players.<br \/>\nAPP\/Ahsan\/VNS Islamabad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Feb 4 (APP): Pakistan have won their Davis Cup tie first round against Iran with Aqeel Khan and Aisam-ul-Haq storming to a straight-sets win in the doubles at Sports Complex Islamabad. Following the singles success on Friday, Aqeel and Aisam posted a 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 win over Alborz Akhavan and Anoosha Shahgholi on Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"video_url":["http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Davis-Cup-Pakistan-leads-with-3-0.flv"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1jpg-29-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21212,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21205\/revisions\/21212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}