In the men's section, Ajit Wijetilak of Karnataka warded off a stiff resistance from fourth-seeded Sachin Rati of Railways beating him 17-15, 12-15, 15-11 to make the semifinal grade.

The other seeeded players to make it into the last four are top seed Nikhil Kanetkar of Maharashtra, third seed Abhin Shyam Gupta of Air India and second seed Srikanth Bakshi of Railways.

Kanetkar took less than half an hour to wrap up his quarter-final match 15-7, 15-2 against Parag Modi of Air India.

In tomorrow's semi-finals, Kanetkar will take on Ajit while Gupta will fight it out with Bakshi.

Results:Men's Singles (quarterfinals): Nikhil Kanetkar (Mah) bt Parag Modi (AI) 15-7, 15-2; Abhin Shyam Gupta (AI) bt Devender Dhillon (Del) 15-12, 13-18, 15-12; Ajit Wijetilak (Kar) bt Sachin Ratti (Rly) 17-15, 12-15, 15-11; Srikant Bakshi (Rly) bt Susant Saxena (UP) 15-11, 15-13.

Pre-quarterfinals: Parag Modi (AI) bt Vijay Kanna (AP) 14-18, 15-7, 15-0; Devender Dhillon (Del) bt Amrish Shinde (Mah) 18-15, 15-6; Abhin Sam Gupta bt Jaison Xavier 15-1, 17-15, 15-8; Srikanth Bakshi bt Sashidhar 15-11, 15-3; Sushant Sexena (UP) bt Kiran Kumar (AP) 10-15, 17-15, 15-11.

Women's Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Manju Shaw (Del) bt J Sarada (AP) 11-1, 11-1; Neelima Choudary (AP) bt Raja Reddy (AP) 11-1, 11-1; Pooja Parekh (Rly) bt D Leela Rani (AP) 11-5, 11-5; Nirmala Kotnis (AI) bt S Jwala (AP) 11-6, 11-5; Firoza Batliwala (Rly) bt Shalaka Damle (AI) 11-5, 11-3; P V V Lakshmi (AP) bt Archana Deodhar (Mah) 4-11, 11-4, 11-5; Deepti (AP) bt Aswani Patwardan (Mah) 11-5, 11-1; Samada Chetty (Mah) bt Manju T Abraham (Ktk) 11-4, 11-6.