Meanwhile, top Seed Sriram Balaji started tentatively to drop the first set before overcoming Japan’s Bumpei Sato, the sixth seed, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 to also book his berth in the semi-finals.

Karunuday, seeded eighth, served strongly and played to a plan to got the better of a very tentative Jeevan in the first set. Karunuday kept up the pressure to sail through in the second set quite comfortably.