Sixth seeds Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand entered the ladies’s doubles quarterfinals, however former world no.1 Kidambi Srikanth was upstaged by lower-ranked compatriot Mithun Manjunath on a combined day for Indians on the Thailand Masters badminton match in Bangkok on Thursday. With the robust three-game win over Srikanth, Manjunath, together with Ashmita Chaliha within the girls’s draw, progressed to the last-eight stage of the singles’ competitors.

Treesa and Gayatri beat fellow Indians Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa 21-15 24-22 of their spherical of 16 match.

They will subsequent be up towards fourth seeds Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma and Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi of Indonesia.

Manjunath, the present nationwide champion who’s ranked 63rd on the planet, needed to sweat it out for 54 minutes to get the higher of former world no.1 Srikanth 21-9 13-21 21-17 in a spherical of 16 match.

Manjunath will play Netherlands Mark Caljouw within the last-eight spherical.

However, it was curtains for the opposite Indian in males’s singles draw, S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian.

Subramanian, a qualifier, misplaced 9-21 11-21 to Chinese Taipei’s Chun-Yi Lin to exit the match.

Ashmita additionally made the following spherical, beating Chinese Taipei’s Yu Po Pai 21-12 15-21 21-17 in girls’s singles.

But Malvika Bansod made an early exit in girls’s singles, dropping 22-24 7-21 to native shuttler Busanan Ongbamrungphan within the pre-quarters.