{"id":104049,"date":"2026-04-16T13:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/behind-vaishalis-candidates-glory-is-a-19-year-old-boy-named-pranesh\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:35:52","slug":"behind-vaishalis-candidates-glory-is-a-19-year-old-boy-named-pranesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/behind-vaishalis-candidates-glory-is-a-19-year-old-boy-named-pranesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind Vaishali&#8217;s Candidates glory is a 19-year-old boy named Pranesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2025 saw third edition of Chennai Grand Masters. R Vaishali, the nation&#8217;s toast at the moment, was invited to compete in the Challengers section, which includes relatively lower-rated players than the Masters field. Vaishali had a nightmarish tournament, finishing rock bottom.  The winner of the Challengers section was Munirethinam Pranesh, a baby-faced assassin on the board.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 saw third edition of Chennai Grand Masters. R Vaishali, the nation&#8217;s toast at the moment, was invited to compete in the Challengers section, which includes relatively lower-rated players than the Masters field. Vaishali had a nightmarish tournament, finishing rock bottom. The winner of the Challengers section was Munirethinam Pranesh, a baby-faced assassin on the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/behind-vaishalis-candidates-glory-is-a-19-year-old-boy-named-pranesh\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Behind Vaishali&#8217;s Candidates glory is a 19-year-old boy named Pranesh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":104050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}