New Delhi: Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal was among the three Indians, who qualified for the men's singles quarterfinals, but the Indian women's challenge in the individual section ended in the Commonwealth Games Table Tennis competition on Monday.
Besides Sharath, A Amalraj and Soumyadeep Roy also entered the last-eight stage, even as all the five women paddlers, including reigning national champion Poulomi Ghatak, crashed out of the competition at the Yamuna Sports Complex.
For second seed Sharath, it has been an easy journey so far, and in the pre-quarterfinal also, he quelled some early challenges before overcoming G Rumgay of Scotland 4-1.
He won the best-of-seven tie 11-7 11-9 9-11 11-4 11-6.
Earlier, after getting a bye in the first round, the Chennai paddler thrashed S Overmeyer of South Africa 4-0 enroute to the round of 16.
The Indian will take on Singapore's Ma Liang in the semifinal.
Liang thrashed British Darius Knight 4-0.
However, it was not that easy for Amalraj and Roy, who beat M Yiangou of Cyprus and Australian W Henzell respectively with an identical 4-3 scoreline.
Amalraj, who defeated Australian Justin Han in the previous round, will face top seed Gao Ning of Singapore on Tuesday. The world number 17 Singaporean beat Andrew Baggaley of England 4 -0 in another clash of the day.
Roy will play another Singaporean Xiaoli Cai, who beat Daniel Reed 4-0. Former national champion Subhajit Saha and Abishek Ravichandran, however, went down to Zi Yang (0-4) of Singapore and British P Drinkhall (3-4) respectively in the pre-quarterfinal stage.
For the Indian woman singles players it was a forgettable day. Out of five, only two -- Madhurika Patkar and Mouma Das -- could enter the round of 16 but failed to move any further.
Madhurika tried to fight but lost 2-4 to Tianwei Feng of Singapore 2-4, while former India number one Mouma proved no match for another Singaporean Mengyu Yu, who beat her 4-0.
Poulomi, after getting a bye in the first round, went down fighting to N Liu of Nigeria 3-4, while Mamta Prabhu found her nemesis in another Singaporean, Jiawei Li, and was blown away 0-4. K Shamini lost 2-4 to Canada's M Zhang in the round of 32.
In men's doubles, Sharath and Saha beat the Australian pair of Han and Simon Gerada 4-0 to storm into the semifinal.
They now play Nigeria's Aruna Akinade and A Seun, who beat the South African pair of Shane Overmeyer and T S Cogill 3-1, in the semifinal on Tuesday.
The Indians were followed by compatriots Amalraj and Roy, who overcame Guyana's David Paul Anthony and E Lewis 3-0.
But, in the final-four stage on Tuesday, the Indian pair will have a tough job in hand as they face the Singaporean duo of Gao and Yang, who beat Wales' Jenkins duo -- Ryan and Stephen -- in the quarterfinal.
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