Seoul Sep 15 (IANS) Indian star shuttler P.V. Sindhu advanced to the women s singles semi-finals while Sameer Verma and the men s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty lost in the quarter-finals of the Korea Open Superseries here on Friday.
Rio Olympic silver medallist Sindhu fought off Japanese Minatsu Mitani with a 21-19 16-21 21-10 victory in an hour and three minutes at the SK Handball Stadium.
With this win three-time World Championships medallist Sindhu has equalised 2-2 in career meetings with the Japanese.
The Indian fifth seed will meet Chinese sixth seed He Bingjiao who moved past South Korean third seed Sung Ji Hyun with a 21-19 16-21 21-19 victory in an hour and 17 minutes.
Sindhu trails 3-5 in head-to-head record against Bingjiao.
The other women s singles semi-finals will be contested between Japanse talents reigning world champion Nozomi Okuhara and Akane Yamaguchi.
Sameer meanwhile lost to South Korean top seed Son Wan Ho 22-20 10-21 13-21 in an hour and nine minutes.
Sameer had stunned Son during first meeting -- at the India Open in March earlier this year. But Son this time played a nearly flawless game to enter the last four stage.
Son will meet Indonesian Anthony Sinisuka Ginting while Chinese Taipei s seventh seed Wang Tzu Wei will face Indonesian Jonatan Christie in the men s singles semi-finals.
The teenage doubles pair of Satwik-Chirag lost to Japanese third seeds Takeshi Kamura and Keigo Sonoda 14-21 21-17 15-21 in 55 minutes.
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