Dubai: Badminton ace Saina Nehwal topped her group to march into the women's singles semifinals while Kidambi Srikanth reached the last four stage despite losing his last men's singles round robin match at the BWF World Super Series Finals here today.

World No.4 Saina clinched a pulsating three-game thriller against Bae Yeon Ju of Korea 15-21 21-7 21-17. Later in the day, World No.6 Srikanth gave third-ranked Jan O Jorgensen a hard time before going down 21-17 12-21 14-21.