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 [ Images ] went down to Ireland's Scott Evans 21-15, 21-16 in the second round.

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

Jwala Gutta [ Images ] and Shruti Kurian won their first round women's doubles match against Nina Vislora and Valeri Sorokina of Russia [ Images ] 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 [ Images ] and Sanave Thomas [ Images ] went down fighting to Phattapol Ngensrisuk and Nitipong Saengsila of Thailand 18-21, 21-18, 25-23.