Next up for the former World No. 13 shuttler is the 146th ranked Xiaodong Sheng of Canada as he seeks a semi-final berth.
This is the third time in four tournaments that Jayaram has reached the quarter-finals of a tournament on the BWF circuit. The Mumbai ace is trying to make his comeback from a hamstring injury, which cost him quite a few months.
Having joined the tour again full-fledged in May, he made it to the semi-finals of the US Open – a Super 300 tournament. The 30-year-old followed it up with a run to the final of the White Nights International Challenge right after that.
It was only at the Russian Open that he suffered a pre-quarter-final defeat as he went down to compatriot, Subhankar Dey in three games in the second round.
Other than Jayaram, Mithun Manjunath was the second Indian to enter the quarter-finals in the men’s singles draw of the Vietnam Open. The World No. 112 fought valiantly to edge the 110th ranked Adulrach Namkul 18-21, 21-13, 21-19 in a 56 minute battle. The Indian next takes on World No. 114 Zhou Zeqi for a place in the semi-finals.
Former Indian national women’s singles champion Rituparna Das too showed brilliant form to knock out the sixth seed and World No. 55 Sung Shuo Yun 21-8, 21-14 in just 26 minutes. For the resurgent Das, whose ranking has now slipped to 134th after a series of injuries, World No. 88 Phittayaporn Chaiwan waits in the next round.
Karan Jindal was the only Indian to bow out on Thursday, losing 10-21, 22-24 to Xiaodong Sheng.
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