Calgary (Canada): Indian shuttlers Ajay Jayaram and B Sai Praneeth advanced to the semi-finals of the Canada Open Grand Prix badminton tournament after notching up contrasting victories in the men&rsquo;s singles competition here on Saturday.
<img title="Ajay Jayaram had to battle Indian Harsheel Dani during a 21-18, 19-21, 21-8 quarter-final win at the Canada Open in Calgary on Saturday. pic/afp" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/jul/03-Ajay-Jayaram.jpg" alt="Ajay Jayaram had to battle Indian Harsheel Dani during a 21-18, 19-21, 21-8 quarter-final win at the Canada Open in Calgary on Saturday. pic/afp" /> Ajay Jayaram had to battle Indian Harsheel Dani during a 21-18, 19-21, 21-8 quarter-final win at the Canada Open in Calgary on Saturday. pic/afp
Top seeded Jayaram defeated fellow Indian Harsheel Dani 21-18, 19-21, 21-8 in a hard-fought battle that lasted 47 minutes. Jayaram will face Korea&rsquo;s Lee Hyun Il, seeded third, in the semi-finals.
Fourth seed Praneeth too made it to the final four after brushing aside eighth seed Raul Must of Estonia 21-14, 21-16 in just 33 minutes to set up a clash against seventh seeded Frenchman Brice Leverdez, who had ended the campaign of second seed HS Prannoy of India.
<img title="B Sai Praneeth" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/jul/03-B-Sai-Praneeth.jpg" alt="B Sai Praneeth" /> B Sai Praneeth
Prannoy played out of skin before going down fighting 22-20, 21-23, 18-21 to Leverdez.
In women&rsquo;s singles, it was curtains for Ruthvika Shivani Gadde and Tanvi Lad. While Ruthvika suffered a 16-21, 12-21 loss to fourth seed Linda Zetchiri of Bulgaria, Tanvi fought hard before going down 16-21, 21-15, 10-21 to third seed Iris Wang of USA.
Among other Indians in the fray, top seeds Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy, who have qualified for Rio Olympics, were given a walkover by Canada&rsquo;s Ted (Chin Tai) Chen and Chinese Taipei&rsquo;s Liao Chao Hsiang in the men&rsquo;s doubles event.
The Indian duo will play Indonesia&rsquo;s Andrei Adistia and Canada&rsquo;s Dong Adam (Xingyu). Women&rsquo;s doubles team of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa, seeded top, gave a walkover to Leanne Choo of Australia and Rachel Honderich.
In another women&rsquo;s doubles match, Jakkampudi Meghana and S Poorvisha Ram suffered a narrow 21-18, 16-21, 20-22 loss to Hung Yi-Ting and Su Hsiang Ling of Chinese Taipei.

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