Roy, seeded number three, played an aggressive game but the unseeded Aman Balgu matched him to cash in on the chances.
In fact, Balgu proved to be more consistent of the two with several winners to his credit which helped him overcome the experienced Roy 3-2 (12-10 9-11 12-10 11-7 4-11 12-10).
Fourth seed Madhurika lost to unseeded Neha Aggarwal 3-4 in the pre-quarterfinals while No. 6 Manika Batra was dumped by another unseeded Karnam Spoorthy from Andhra in the first round of the main draw. Spoorthy won 4-1 (8-11 13-11 11-7 11-8 12-10).
The Results: Men (PQF): Soumyajit Ghosh bt L. Satheeswaran 4-1, Jubin Kumar bt Saurav Chakravarthy 4-3, A. Amalraj bt Sourav Saha 4-0, Harmeet Desai bt T. Nitin 4-0, Aman Balgu bt Soumyadeep Roy 4-2, A. Sharath Kamal bt Jignesh Jaiswal 4-0, Devesh Karia bt G. Sathiyan 4-2, Sanil Shetty bt Sougatha Sarkar 4-1.
Women (PQF): Poulami Ghatak bt Takeme Sarkar 4-2, Mousmi Pal bt Mamata Prabhu 4-3, Divya Deshpande bt Reeth Rishya 4-3, Neha Aggarwal bt Madhurika Patkar 4-3, Ankita Das bt Soumi Mandal 4-1, Mallika Bhandarkar bt K. Spoorthy 4-3, Pooja Sahasrabhudhe bt Ayhika Mukherjee 4-3, K. Shamini bt Suthirtha Mukherjee 4-2.