Commonwealth Games gold medallist Sen swiftly defeated Sidarth T with scores of 21-8, 21-5. Initially cautious in the first game, the players fought for each point until they reached a tie at 5-5.
The seventh-seeded Crasto-Ponnappa beat compatriots Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand to make it to the quarters. In the semifinals, they had a much tougher challenge in the form of Japanese top seeds Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota.
In the semifinals played at the Davangere Tennis Association Courts here on Saturday, top seed Nick Chappell of the USA scored a convincing 6-3, 6-2 victory over India's Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha while second seed Bogdan Bobrav quelled a late challenge from last week's winner Ramkumar Ramanath
Maharashtra's Harsheel Dani kept his nerves at the business end of the decider to upset top seed Kiran George of Kerala while the experienced Sourabh Verma of Madhya Pradesh gave third seed Karthikey Gulshan Kumar of Delhi a tactical lesson is game plan to advance to the badminton men's sing
Meanwhile, the No. 1 seed in the boys' U-14 category, Hruthik Katakam stamped his authority with another commanding victory by beating Karnataka's Diganth M 6-0, 6-0 in the last eight, as per a press release from Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship.
The stellar unit is captained by Akshaj Shenoy (Kai), and comprises Samarth Arvind Trivedi (CrankO), Mihir Ranjan (Lotus), Sanindhya Malik (Deadcorp), Aakash Shandilya (Infi), Aditya Selvaraj (Krow) dominated the recently held Central and South Asia seeding event and clinched top seed for th
In the QFs, the Indian-Australian pair will be in action against either the Dutch-British top seeds Wesley Koolhof-Neal Skupski or American pair Nathaniel Lammons-Jackson Withrow.