India’s Tharun Mannepalli stunned top seed Lee Cheuk Yiu of Hong Kong to enter the quarterfinals of the Macau Open, along with compatriot Lakshya Sen on Thursday. Tharun rallied impressively to outwit World No. 15 Lee, 19-21, 21-14, 22-20, in a match which stretched for more than an hour.

The 23-year-old ranked World No. 47 has reached his second quarterfinals of a Super 300 tournament after entering the last eight at the German Open in February. In the quarterfinals, Tharun will face world No. 87 Hu Zhe An of China.

Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen also entered the last-eight stage by defeating Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo of Indonesia, 21-14, 14-21, 21-17. However, Ayush Shetty was ousted after a 18-21, 16-21 loss to Malaysia’s Justin Hoh in the quarterfinal.

In the women’s singles India’s Rakshitha Ramraj went down to Busanan Ongbamrungphan of Thailand 21-14, 10-21, 11-21 in a match that lasted 51 minutes. In the mixed doubles, fifth-seeded Indian duo of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto lost to Malaysia’s Jimmy Wong and Lai Pei Jing 21-19, 13-21, 18-21.

In the men’s doubles, Pruthvi Roy and K. Sai Pratheek lost to fourth-seeded Junaidi Arif and Roy King Yap of Malaysia 18-21, 18-21. In later matches, second seeded men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will face Japan’s Kakeru Kumagai and Hiroki Nishi. In the women’s doubles, Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra will be pitted against eighth-seeded Meilysa Puspitasari and Rachel Rose of Indonesia.