Bangkok: India's Ashmita Chaliha dished out a brilliant performance as she beat Ester Nurumi Wardoyo of Indonesia to enter the women's singles semifinals of the Thailand Masters badminton tournament here on Friday.
The 24-year-old Ashmita remained the only Indian in the fray after Mithun Manjunath lost his men's singles quarterfinals while the women's doubles pairs of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand also exited from the Super 300 tournament in the last-eight stage.
World No. 61 Ashmita, who made it to the main draw from the qualifiers, beat Wardoyo, ranked 44th, 21-14, 19-21, 21-13 in a 57-minute match.
Sixth-seeded doubles pair of Treesa and Gayatri suffered a narrow loss to fourth seeds Indonesia's Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma and Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi 12-21, 21-17, 21-23 in a match that lasted one hour and seven minutes.
In the men's singles, national champion and world No. 63 Manjunath lost to Dutchman Mark Caljouw 19-21, 15-21 in 43 minutes.
