Ace Indian shuttler P Kashyap reached the final of the Open Volant d'Or after beating Pablo Abian of Spain in a gruelling last-four encounter in Toulouse, France.
Third-seed Kashyap beat Pablo 16-21, 21-19, 21-9 in the semi-final to set up a summit clash with second-seed Rajiv Ouseph of England, who beat fifth-seed Peter Mikkelsen of Denmark 21-17, 21-16.
In women's singles, Sayali Gokhale squandered a first game lead against second-seed Jill Pittard and lost 21-19, 15-21, 16-21 in the semi-final to crash out of the tournament.
Sayali had beaten Indonesian Atu Rosalina 21-15, 16-21, 21-16 in the quarter-finals.
Among other Indians in fray, it was curtains for Aditya Prakash and Neha Pandit after they lost their respective quarter-final clashes on Saturday.
Aditya went down to Rajiv 10-21, 13-21 while sixth-seed Neha went down to third-seed Kati Tolmoff 12-21, 20-22.
The Indian men's doubles pair of Tarun Kona and Arun Vishnu also lost in the quarter-final, going down 16-21, 15-21 to second seeded Danish duo of Rasmus Bonde and Mikkel Delbo Larsen.
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