Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal survived a battle of nerves to overcome the challenge of German Juliane Schenk to enter the quarter-finals of the Indonesian Super Series in Jakarta on Thursday.
The sixth seed Indian won 18-21, 21-7, 21-19 in 46 minutes.
In Friday's quarter-finals, she will take on the winner of the pre-quarter-final match between world No 7 Chen Wang of Hong Kong and Korean Hye Youn Hwang.
Meanwhile, it was curtains for Aditi Mutatkar in another pre-quarter-final, the Pune girl blown away by Maria Febe Kusumastuti of Indonesia 21-8, 21-5 in just 23 minutes.