Anup Sridhar pulled off a thrilling victory over Kenn Lim of Malaysia to storm into the pre-quarter-finals of the men's singles at the Thailand Open Badminton Championships in Bangkok.

Sridhar, ranked 48, played out of his skin to come through 21-19, 13-21, 21-11 in the second round and set up a clash with Tien Minh Nguyen of Vietnam.

The Banglaore boy, however, is the lone Indian shuttler left in the fray.

National champion Chetan Anand went down to Ireland's Scott Evans 21-15, 21-16 in the second round.

In the women's singles, India's only hope Trupti Murgunde lost to Juliana Schenk of Germany 21-9, 21-8.

Jwala Gutta and Shruti Kurian won their first round women's doubles match against Nina Vislora and Valeri Sorokina of Russia 21-14, 21-23, 21-13.

But the duo lost to Tu Mi Hwang and Min Jung Kim of Korea 21-19, 21-5 in the next round.

In the men's doubles, Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas went down fighting to Phattapol Ngensrisuk and Nitipong Saengsila of Thailand 18-21, 21-18, 25-23.