New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS): Senthil Kumar and Maaya Rajeshwaran kept India in the title hunt at the ITF J300 event by progressing to the semifinals of the boys and girls singles, respectively, but Arnav Paparkar bowed out of the tournament being played at the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association (DLTA) Complex here on Thursday.

Now, Senthil and Hwang will clash for a place in the final.

The other semifinal will be between Korea's Hyon Seok Seo and America's Rosha Santhosh. Seo fought past Latvia's Arturs Zagras 7-5, 6-4, while Santhosh also had to work hard to earn a 6-1, 2-6, 7-6(4) win over Kazakhstan's Damir Zhalgasbay.

In the girls' singles, Maaya continued her giant-killing run as she knocked out seventh seed Rada Zolotareva, who pulled out of the quarterfinal contest when the Indian was leading 6-3, 1-0.

Maaya, though, has a tough task at hand now as she will go up against second-seed Eleejah Inisan, who ended the run of Serbian fifth-seed Petra Koljikusic 7-5, 6-0.

The other semifinal will be between Polina Berezina and Ekaterina Tupitsyna, who sent packing eighth seed Briton Allegra Korpanec Davies 7-6(9), 7-5.

This means Indian players are still in contention for titles in two categories, men's singles and women's singles.

The boys' doubles final will be between fourth seeds Artem Bogomolov/Roman Kharlamov and Alan Aiukhanov/Alexey Shibaev after they won their respective semifinals.