Indian blended doubles duo of Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra stormed into the WTT Contender semifinals with a 3-Zero win over World No. 9 Spanish pair of Maria Xiao and Alvaro Robles on Thursday.

Continuing their splendid run, the Indian duo took lower than 24 minutes to wrap the proceedings 11-9 11-9 11-5 and arrange a last-four conflict towards Lim Jonghoon and Shin Yubin, the world No. 20 duo from Korea.

The different half of the semifinal will happen between the Chinese pair of Kuai Man-Lin Shidong and Wong Chun Ting-Doo Hoi Kem of Hong Kong. Both the semis are slated later within the day.

Fresh from their robust 3-2 win over Tin-Tin Ho and Samuel Walker of England, the Indian pair acquired off to a sluggish begin and trailed 2-5 and 3-6.

They steadily upped the ante and gained six factors in a row to take the lead with a 11-9 win within the first recreation.

It was slightly shut affair within the second recreation the place the Indians took a 4-1 lead earlier than successful by an equivalent 11-9 margin.

But they had been again at their finest within the third recreation the place they gained eight factors on the trot to seal the difficulty.

Sathiyan and Manika had gained a silver on the WTT Contender Nova Gorica in Slovenia final November.

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