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After comfortably winning the first game, the London Olympics bronze medallist went down in the second before rebounding strongly to register a 21-15, 20-22, 21-11 win over her Japanese opponent Suzuki in an exhilarating lasteight contest that lasted one hour and nine minutes. 

The second-seed will now lock horns with Thailand’s Busanan Ongbumrungpan, the fourth seed, for a place in the summit showdown. In the men’s singles event, third-seed B Sai Praneeth also stormed into the last-four of the tournament after clinching an easy 21-16, 21-17 triumph over Kantaphon Wangcharoen of Thailand in a quarter-final clash that lasted 50 minutes at the Nimibutr Stadium.

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