Madhurika , however, failed to live up to the expectation and lost to 4th seed and Olympian Ankita Das in the quarter final.
Apart from Manika, second seed K Shamini and third seed and former international Mouma Das also bowed out of the girls singles losing their pre quarter final matches this evening.
While No 2 K. Shamini lost to No 7 Divya Deshpande 1-4 Mouma Das went down 3-4 to No 6 seed Mousmi Paul in a close encounter that lasted 70 minutes.
If Manika lacked concentration against a consistent Patkar, Shamini was guilty of being complacent while Mouma at 9-all in the decider hit a wide forehand and from there she was fighting a lost case as Mousmi just shut her out to enter the semifinals.
Shamini was error-prone on the day and was doing the catch-up all the time with Divya exploding on the stage. In the semifinals showdown tomorrow morning, it will be Poulomi vs Ankita Das and Divya Deshpande vs Mousmi Paul.
But in the men
