Macau, Aug. 1 -- India's Commonwealth Games champion, Lakshya Sen and Tharun Mannepalli made it to the semifinals of the ongoing Macau Open on Friday, while the popular men's doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bowed out of the competition.

Tharun's continued his dream run during the BWF Super 300 tournament, beating Hu Zhe'an of China, the current junior world champion in his quarterfinal match at the Macao East Asian Games Dome, as per a press release from Olympics.com.

After an easy first game win, the Indian dropped the second one, but bounced back to win the match 21-12, 13-21, 21-18 despite a late fightback from Hu Zhe'an.

The 23-year-old had also previously pulled a shocking win against top seed Lee Cheuk Yi...