Anup Sridhar, Chetan Anand and Arvind Bhatt of Petroleum Board along with Air India's Anand Pawar entered the men's semi-finals in the 72nd Senior National Badminton Championships, at the Campal indoor stadium in Panaji, Goa [Images], on Friday.

Saina Nehwal [Images], Aparna Balan, Aditi Mutatkar and Trupti Murgunde, all Petroleum Board, made it to the women's semi-finals.

Saturday's first men's semi-final will be all-Petroleum Board affair, with top seed Sridhar clashing with third seed Anand.

In the second semi-final, fourth seed Bhatt takes on fifth seed Pawar.

The women's semi-finals, also on Saturday, are all-PSPB affairs, where top seed Nehwal meets fifth seed Balan, and third seed Mutatkar clashes with second seed Trupti.

In the men's quarter-finals, top seed Sridhar overcame R M V Guru Sai Dutt of Andhra Pradesh 22-20 21-16; Chetan Anand beat Sachin Ratti of Railways 21-17, 21-15; Aravind Bhatt got the better of Sagar

Chopra of Maharshtra 21-14 21-13 and Arvind Pawar rallied to beat P Kashyap 20-22, 21-18, 21-19.

In the women's quarter-finals, top seed Saina Nehwal beat seventh Jwala Gutta of Petroleum Board 21-10, 21-11; fifth seed Aparna Balan beat fourth seed Dhanya Nair of Railways 13-21, 21-14, 21-11; third seed Aditi Mutatkar beat B P Meenakshi 21-19, 18-21, 21-18 and second seed Trupti Murgunde proved too good for Gayatri Vartak of Maharashtra 21-16, 21-8.