She will now now take on second-seed Gauri Narayan of Mumbai Suburban in the semi-finals.

Narayan accounted for unseeded Poonam Walimbe of Pune with a degree of comfort 11-2, 11-3 in the other quarter-final.

Deepti, the 12-year-old daughter of former junior national champion Manik Paranjpe-Kelkar, has thus lined herself for a triple having made the semi-finals of the mini girls singles and doubles as well.

Deepti, who has been the top-seed in the mini girls event, demolished Mansi Marathe of Thane in straight games 11-2, 11-0 and has set up a semi-final clash against fourth-seeded Meghna Pawaskar of Pune. Meghna put it across Aditi Mutatkar of Pune in a keen fare 11-9, 1-11,11-1.

Later, Deepti, pairing with Riddhi Panjwani of Mumbai Suburban made short work of Shilpa Ghosh and Amita Dahinge of Pune 15-0, 15-6.

In the other upset of the day in the mini girls section, unseeded Shilpi Kankane of Pune sent the second seed Sayali Gokhale of Pune packing with 11-2, 11-6 margin. She will be meeting Riddhi in the other semi-final. Riddhi has beaten Gayatri Kochchar of Pune in straight games 11-2, 11-0.

RESULTS

Mini boys singles: Anand Pawar bt Yash Wagh 15-5, 15-2; Kaustubh Date bt Saurabh Sancheti 15-11, 15-11; Rohit More bt Amit Khadgi 16-13, 17-18, 15-7; Ajay Jairam bt Siddesh Athlekar 15-5, 15-6; Rohit Sadani bt Akshay Behere 15-8, 14-18, 15-6; Alok Kanade bt Varun Narayan 10-15, 15-8, 15-10; Alok Bimbalkar bt Kaustubh Patil 15-7, 17-14; Abhinav Kapur bt Alok Kulkarni 15-4, 15-9; Sudeep Joshi bt Sidarth Gupta 16-17, 15-7, 15-12; Aditya Chitre bt Dnyanesh Deshpande 15-3, 15-2; Gautam Rege bt Abhijit Paranjape 15-2, 15-5; Ashwin Palande bt Rohit Jogalkar 15-7,15-0; Anup Ingale bt Varun Govande 10-15, 15-6, 15-3.

Sub junior boys singles: Nishad Dravid bt Salil Dhavale 15-0, 15-1; Akshay Thakkar bt Siddharth Phadnis 15-0, 15-6; Nikhil Lokhande bt Aditya Kulkarni 15-9, 15-4; Vinayak Ghatge bt Anup Jamdagni 12-15, 17-14, 15-1; Amol Kanade bt Kunal Disa 15-9, 15-12; Soham Gadgil bt Sushil Sawant 15-7, 15-13; Ajit Phatak bt Sujay Datar 15-4, 15-4; Ninad Khade bt Pravin Upadhaye 15-4, 15-4; Abhijit Vaidya bt Ganesh Kulkarni 15-6, 15-8; Viag Shah bt Anish Kanekar 17-15, 14-18, 15-8; Aditya Chitre bt Vaibhav Deshpande 15-5, 15-12; Merrick Gonsalves bt Rohan Mahashabde 15-6, 15-9; Amar Mohite bt Harshad Bhagwat 15-2, 15-5.

Sub-junior girls singles: Mugdha Bhagwat bt Shivani Mayekar 11-2, 11-0; Nikita Hurkudli bt Priti Sapre 11-6, 9-12, 11-3; Neha Wad bt Sibal Chalichan 7-11, 11-8, 11-5; Dhanya Nair bt Mayura Wagale 11-3, 11-4; Deepti Paranjape bt Manasi Bhave 11-6, 10-12 11-6; Gauri Narayan bt Ruta Pitke 11-0 11-6.