World number one Tai beats Saina Nehwal in straight sets to enter French Open semifinal on Friday. This was the second meeting of both these decorated players of world Badminton within a week and like the past one Taipei player comes out better of her Indian opponent by 22-20, 21-11.
Earlier on Thursday night, India ace P V Sindhu advanced to the quarterfinals with a straight-game win over Japan's Sayaka Sato but B Sai Praneeth crashed out.
Sindhu dished out a compact game to outwit Sayaka 21-17, 21-16 in a second round match on Thursday to set up a clash with seventh seeded Chinese He Bingjiao.
However, Praneeth was no match for Asian Games champion Jonatan Christie of Indonesia, going down 16-21, 14-21 in a men's singles match.
The men's doubles pairs of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy too put up a good show, progressing to the quarterfinals with straight game wins. While Satwik and Chirag defeated China's He Jiting and Tan Qiang 21-13, 21-19, Manu and Sumeeth stunned third seeded Chinese combination of Liu Cheng and Zhang Nan 21-14, 21-16 in another match.