<p>Senthil Kumar and Maaya Rajeshwaran kept India in title hunt at the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/other-sports/article/Davis-Cup--ITF-needs-to-review-16-team-rule--says-Obradovic-15596164" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>ITF J300</strong></a> event by progressing to the semifinals of the boys and girls singles respectively but Arnav Paparkar bowed out of the tournament on Thursday.</p>
<p>Top seed Senthil, ranked as high as 36 in the world, was up against compatriot Samarth Sahita, who belied his 280th rank with a stunning fight.</p>
<p>Senthil had to dig deep into his resources to beat Samarth 6-3 3-6 6-4 in the gruelling quarterfinal at court number 3 at the DLTA Complex.</p>
<p>It could have been an all-Indian semifinal too but Arnav Paparkar fell to fourth seed Korean Donghyun Hwang 6-4 4-6 5-7 in another high-quality quarterfinal in the boys event.</p>
<p>Now Senhtil and Hwang will clash for a place in the summit final.</p>
<p>The other semifinal will be between Korea's Hyon Seok Seo and America's Rosha Santhosh.</p>
<p>Seo fought past Latvia's Arturs Zagras 7-5 6-4 while Santhosh also had to work hard to earn a 6-1 2-6 7-6(4) win over Kazakhstan's Damir Zhalgasbay.</p>
<p>In the girls singles, Maaya continued her giant-killing run as she knocked out seventh seed Rada Zolotareva, who pulled out of the quarterfinal contest when the Indian was leading 6-3 1-0.</p>
<p>Maaya, though, has a tough task at hand now as she will up against second seed Eleejah Inisan, who ended the run of Serbian fifth seed Petra Koljikusic 7-5 6-0.</p>
<p>The other semifinal will be between Polina Berezina and Ekaterina Tupitsyna, who sent packing eighth seed Briton Allegra Korpanec Davies 7-6(9) 7-5.</p>
<p>The boys doubles final will be between fourth seeds Artem Bogomolov/Roman Kharlamov and Alan Aiukhanov/Alexey Shibaev after they won their respective semifinals.</p>
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