Anup Sridhar bowed out of the men's singles in the Australian Open Grand Prix, even as the Indian men's and women's doubles teams made it to the last-four stage, in Melbourne, on Friday.
Sixth seeded Sridhar went down 17-21, 18-21 to top seed Yan Kit Chan of Hong Kong in the quarter-finals. He was followed by unseeded Aditya Prakash, who lost 13-21, 9-21 to Indonesia's Alamsyah Yunus in another last eight encounter.
Also bowing out was fifth seed Neha Pandit, who lost 21-18, 8-21, 4-21 to fourth seed Anita Raj Kaur of Malaysia in the women's singles quarter-finals.
However, India was assured a place in the men's doubles final as top-seeds Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas will meet fourth-seeds Tarun Kona and Arun Vishnu in the first semi-final while the other last-four clash will see Indian third seeds Akshay Dewalkar and Jishnu Sanyal clashing with second seeds Teik Chai Gan and Bin Shen Tan of Malaysia.
The Indian women's doubles pairs of Aparna Balan and Shruti Kurian and Anjali Kalita and Jyotshna Polavarapu also qualified for the last four.
Aparna and Shruti will meet New Zealand top seed Danielle Barry and Donna Haliday in the first semi-final, while in the second, Anjali and Jyotshna will meet Chia Chi Huang and He Tian Tang of Australia.
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