Lucknow: World Junior Championships silver medallist Tanvi Sharma and Manraj Singh created a flutter on the Syed Modi Worldwide, gorgeous the previous world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan and HS Prannoy respectively to enter the quarterfinals right here on Thursday.

The 16-year-old Tanvi, who had reached the US Open Tremendous 300 last earlier this yr, notched a morale-boosting 13-21 21-16 21-19 win over second seed Okuhara in a 59-minute thriller. Manraj, 19, then delivered a sensational efficiency to oust Prannoy, the 2023 World Championships bronze medallist, 21-15 21-18 in simply 43 minutes, sending shockwaves by means of the boys’s singles draw.

High seed Unnati Hooda too booked her place within the last-eight with a commanding 21-15 21-10 win over Tasnim Mir, whereas Mithun Manjunath outlasted sixth seed Tharun Mannepalli 21-16 17-21 21-17 in one other all-Indian second-round contest. Unnati will face seventh seed Rakshitha Sree Santhosh Ramraj, who edged previous Devika Sihag 16-21 21-19 21-17, whereas Mithun is ready to tackle Manraj, who had gained Uganda Worldwide Problem and Iran Fajr Worldwide Problem early this yr, within the quarterfinals.

Former world No.1 Kidambi Srikanth, the 2021 World Championships silver medallist, brushed apart Saneeth Dayanand 21-6 21-16 to arrange a quarterfinal conflict with a fit-again Priyanshu Rajawat, who overcame BM Rahul Bharadwaj 21-16 10-21 21-12 in a hard-fought encounter.