Indian Men's doubles pair Pranav Jerry Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar proceeded to semis beating 3rd seeded Danish pair of Mads Conrad-Petersen and Mads Pier Kolding 21-22; 11-21 and 23-21.
The Indian duo started strongly beating the Danish pair 22-20 with strong court play making the visitors toil hard infront of some vocal crowd support. As Pranav and Akshay pair looked confident from the first set win but soon after in the second set the pair was grounded with some fierce play from the Petersen-Kolding pair with strong attacking shots as they looked to stretch the Indian pair across with some fine balance of strong front and back court extension play as well as deft shots from the nets resulting in an easy win by 11-21 margin.
As the match proceeded to third the small crowd at BBD arena was treated with some end to end encounter as the balance of the match swung on either side with each rally point. Pranav and Akshay managed to keep their composure with some sound technical play as they created width on the court with some pin point rally points and never let the Danish pair out of their sight. As the match closed to the closing stages it seemed it could be anyones game but Pranav Jerry and Akshay Dewalkar managed to scrape through in what turned out to be a gripping encounter to win the final set 23-21.
While the women's duo of Gutta-Ponappa had a fairly easy outing against the Thai shuttler Puttita Supajirakul and Sapsiree Taerattanachai winning 23-21 and 21-17.
The Indian women's player showed great maturity and composure over their Thai opponent as the Gutta-Ponappa pair kept control of the game across both sets to manage a fairly easy win.
In Men's single Quarters India's rising star K.Srikanth had to toil hard to earn a spot in semis against Malaysian opponent Goh Soon Huat winning 21-17;18-21;24-22.The marathon battle lasted more than an hour.The intensely contested match saw K.Srikanth pull out some amazing shot across the court as the Malaysian opponent was stretched by the Indian shuttler to submission . As the match proceeded to third set the fiercely fought encounter took toll on both the players but finally K.Srikanth managed to hold on to his nerve and battled third set fatigue to break the deadlock with a score of 24-22 to surge forward Indian Men's singles hopes to the business end of the tournament.
However Harsheel Dani's promising run in the tournament came crashing in Quarters losing to Chinese shuttler Shi Yuqi 21-14; 21-11 without much fight as Shi Yuqi dominated the match and cruised to a easy win.
In other matches Men's double top seeded player Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen had easy win over Lee Sheng Mu and Tsai Chia Hsin of Taipei beating them 21-12;21-18 and Japanese women's player Sayaka Sato thumped Maria Feebe Kusumastuti 21-;21-3
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