There was another upset when eighth seed J B S Vidyadhar of Petroleum was shown the exit door after a 45-minute, three-game battle by his pre-quarterfinal opponent S D S Krishna of Karnataka.

In the match between Bhat and Tanishaq, who came through four rounds of qualifiers into the 32-man main draw, scores ran neck to neck till 9-all in the first game before the former surged ahead 15-13.

But his opponent rattled off seven points while allowing Bhat to grab only two to be at game point at 20-17. The second seed then hit the shuttle out to lose the game. Tanishaq dominated the second game from the beginning to surge to a commanding 13-6 lead before Bhat recovered poise and narrowed down the gap to one point (15-16). But Bhat continued his error-prone ways and managed to win just one more point in the match.

Results: Men (Round 2): - Chetan Anand [1] bt Vinay Kumar Reddy. P.21-15 21-13; Ajay Jayaram [6] bt Pratik Patel [Q] 21-15, 21-10;Kashyap. P. [3] bt Saurabh Verma 21-19 21-12; Krishna S D S lost to Vidyadhar. J. B. S. [8] 11-21 21-9 21-13; Sagar Chopda bt Anshuman Hazarika 19-21 21-11 21-10; Anand Pawar [4] bt Srujan Nandaluri 21-14 21-19; Guru Sai Dutt. R. M. V. [7] bt Thomas Kurian 21-19 21-9; Tanishaq. K. [Q] bt Mohit Kamat 21-19 21-19. Women: Aditi Mutatkar [1] bt Trupti Lavaniya 21-13 21-12; Neha Pandit [5] bt Radhika Singh Bhati [PFQ] 21-12 21-2; M Ashwini Ponnappa [4] bt Bibari Basumatary 21-16 21-14; Gayatri Vartak [6] bt Saloni Yadav [PFQ] 21-17 21-16; Trupti Murgunde w/o Rima Jhaveri [PFQ]; Mudra Dhainje [3] bt Arundhati Pantawane 21-11 12-21 21-16; Parssa Naqvi [8] bt Manali Sinha 21-13 21-15; Sayali Gokhale [2] bt Saumya Padhye [PFQ] 21-13 21-12.