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Men's doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have also been awarded a first-round bye.
The star shuttler feels there are no easy games on the BWF Tour nowadays.
Weng came back from 14-19 to draw level at 19-19 and then saved a match point before winning the thriller 22-20.
The Keralite will take on China's Weng Hong Yang in Sunday's summit clash.
Mithun Manjunath went down in three games to Malaysia's Lee Zii Jia.
Ashwini Ponnappa and her doubles partner Tanisha Crasto lost 11-21, 21-14, 17-21 to the Indonesian combination of Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma and Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi.
The 21-year-old from Almora bounced back from an opening game reversal to keep his rival under pressure but in the end couldn't get across the fifth-seeded Christie.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who won the Korea Open, also advanced to the quarterfinals.
This was the double Olympic medallist's seventh first-round exit in 13 BWF World Tour events in 2023.
The world No. 3 Indian pair lost the opening game 17-21 . However, Satwik and Chirag won the second game 21-13 and the decider 21-14.