Defending champion Saina Nehwal and World number five Kidambi Srikanth were among the nine Indian shuttlers who entered the quarterfinals of the singles events at the Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament here on Thursday.While Saina continued her march ahead, reaching the final eight with an easy win over Rituparna Das 21-15, 21-9, top seed Srikanth edged out Malaysia's Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin 22-20, 20-22, 21-11 in a men's singles match.
Two-time bronze medallist at World Championship, Sindhu too lived to her reputation as the third seeded Indian got across Singapore's Jiayuan Chen 21-18, 21-14. She will lock horns with sixth seed Thailand's Porntip Buranaprasertsuk on Friday. In men's singles event, Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap, seeded third, emerged victories after 11th seed Misha Zilberman of Israel conceded the match at the fag end, lagging 16-21, 12-20.