In the quarter final action, seventh seed Karman met her match in second seed Georgina Garcia-Perez of Spain and lost 4-6, 3-6 while wild card Rutuja's fine run ended with a straight-set (4-6, 4-6) loss to Olga Doroshina of Russia.
There was a huge upset with top-seed Jia-Jing Lu also making her exit, beaten by Fatma Al Nabhani, ranked 349 places below the Chinese, at the Deccan Gymkhana courts.
Karman was the first among the two Indians in action today. With a break in game two, the Indian teenager opened up 3-0 and 4-1 leads to raise visions of victory over Spaniard Garcia-Perez.
But Karman's play dipped thereafter that the Spaniard took advantage of to force breaks in the seventh and ninth games and win the set.
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In the second set, the rivals traded breaks initially before Kamran slipped badly to trail 1-5. She held her serve and also broke her rival's serve in the eighth game to make it 3-5 before the Russian held her serve to clinch the set and the match.
Rutuja started confidently to hold her serve at love before Olga stepped on the gas and made it a one horse race to open up a 1-5 lead. Rutuja fought back to win three games in a row (4-5) but eventually conceded the set.
The second set went in similar fashion with the fight even till five games before Olga pulled away to lead 2-4. Rutuja won a marathon seventh game to hold serve as well as the 9th but that was all she could manage and bowed out.
In the doubles semifinals, unseeded pair Jessy Rompies (Indonesia)/Varunya Wongteanchai (Thailand) continued their giant-killing act by stunning No. 1 seeds Georgina Garcia Perez (Spain)/ Valeriya Strakhova (Ukraine) 4-6, 6-4, 10-8.
Third seeds Samantha Murray (Great Britian)/Ana Veselinovic (Montenegro) quashed the hopes of the No.2 seeds Ankita Raina (India)/Emily Webley-Smith (Britain) 4-6, 7-5, 10-4.
Results:
Singles (Quarter finals): Fatma Al Nabhani (Oma) b 1-Jia-Jing Lu (Chn) 6-4, 7-6 (6); 2-Georgina Garcia-Perez (Esp) b 7-Karman Kaur Thandi (Ind) 6-4, 6-3; Olga Doroshina (Rus) b WC-Rutuja Bhosale (Ind) 6-4, 6-4; 4-Katy Dunne (Gbr) b 5-Ganna Poznikhirenko (Ukr) 7-6 (4), 7-5.
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