pune sourabh vermas dream of lifting his fourth badminton national title came crashing when he lost to mithun manjunath 2115 1921 1921 in a grueling quarterfinal match in the 84th national badminton championships at shiv chhatrapati sports complex in mhalungebalewadi on sundayin another quarterfinal second seed kidambi srikanth lived another day to fight after winning a threegame match against gulshan kumar kartikey 2110 1821 2116 on the main courtthirtyyearold verma who looked in control after winning the first game 2115 was stretched by the skilled mithun the latter didnt allow verma any opportunity to hit smashes and kept him on the backline for most of the match both verma and mithun are unseeded in the tournamentmithun 28 took the second game 2119 and later continued building rallies in the third game too to wear his opponent out both the players failed to take a big lead at any point in the match and kept winning alternate points till mithun made it 2018 in his favour sourabh managed to take one more point in the end but mithun finished it with a crosscourt smash to end the 72minute affairon the adjacent court it appeared an easy sailing for srikanth as he won the first game 2110 but in the second game instead of clearing the shuttle off the net the thomas cup winner needlessly started engaging gulshan in a duel close to the netgulshan who knew srikanth was troubled by the netplay during his round of 64 match against maisnam meiraba on saturday obliged by a neat play at the net and won some crucial points gulshan won the second game 2118srikanth looked in better control in the third game and decided to finish the matter by smashes he didnt indulge in netplay and started hitting crosscourt smashes which not just changed the pace of the game but also stretched gulshan out of his comfort zonesrikanth increased the lead after 119 and finished the game 2116 to enter the semifinals where he will face mithun on mondayin the womens quarterfinals aakarshi kashyap came back from a game down to beat devika sihag 1921 2113 2113 while third seed adita rao beat ira sharma 2116 2115 to set up a semifinal match against aakarshiishaan bhatnagar suffers injuryindias top mixed doubles pair ishaan bhatnagar and tanisha crasto had to withdraw from the nationals after ishaan suffered a freak injury during their quarterfinal match against hemanagendra babu tkanika kanwal the ishaantanisha duo were leading 2114 1213 when ishaan landed on his right leg in an attempt to hit a shot from the back line the landing was poor and ishaan twisted his knee and fell on the court in pain