Sydney: Younger shuttler Ayush Shetty and former world championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen superior within the Australian Open in contrasting vogue to arrange an all-Indian quarterfinal conflict, whereas senior professionals HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth made early exits right here on Thursday.

The highest-seeded Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty too made it to the last-eight with a simple 21-18, 21-11 victory in opposition to Chinese language-Taipei’s Su Ching Heng and Wu Guan Xun in 37 minutes.

The Satwik-Chirag pair will tackle the fifth-seeded Indonesian pair of Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Shohibul Fikri within the quarterfinals.

Shetty, winner of the Yonex US Open Tremendous 300 event earlier this 12 months, defeated fourth-seeded Kodai Naraoka 21-17, 21-16 in a contest lasting 68 minutes. This was the 20-year-old’s second win over the world No.9 Japanese this 12 months as he arrange a showdown with the seventh-seeded Sen, who overcame Chinese language-Taipei’s Chi Yu Jen 21-17, 13-21, 21-13 in a contest that lasted 63 minutes.