Chennai, February 14 Fourth seeds Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade easily secured a spot in the mixed doubles final, while G Sathiyan won a hard-fought victory to reach the men's singles quarterfinals in the WTT Star Contender Chennai 2026 on Saturday.
Desai and Ghorpade dominated the all-Indian mixed doubles semifinal, defeating wildcard holders Payas Jain and Syndrela Das 3-0 (11-9, 11-6, 11-9). They will now face second seeds Eduard Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs of Romania, who advanced after third seeds Oh Junsung of Korea and Miku Nagasaki of Japan conceded the match while trailing 1-2.
Earlier, Sathiyan kept Indian hopes alive in the men's singles as he fought back from a 1-2 deficit to beat Ionescu 3-2 (9-11, 11-3, 10-12, 11-7, 11-5) to advance to the quarterfinals.
He will now face Czechia's Lubomir Jancarik, who defeated India's Manush Shah 3-1 (11-4, 13-11, 5-11, 13-11).
Meanwhile, Sehit Suravajjula's impressive run came to an end when he lost 1-3 (6-11, 12-10, 13-15, 7-11) against top seed Oh Junsung.
However, the Korean gave a walkover to Frenchman Thibault Poret in the quarterfinals after he was injured during the mixed doubles semifinals.
India's challenge in women's singles also came to an end after qualifier Nithya Mani lost 1-3 (11-9, 5-11, 6-11, 8-11) against Chinese Taipei's fourth seed Cheng I-Ching in the pre-quarterfinals.
