New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS): Mrityunjay Badola came up with another impressive performance to knock out fourth seed Nitin Kumar Sinha and set up a semi-final clash with defending champion B.R. Nikshep at the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championships here Thursday.

In the Under-16 boys' singles, unseeded Mrityunjay came back from a set down to beat West Bengal boy Nitin 3-6, 6-2, 7-5.

Top seed Nikshep drew curtains on Siddhant Banthia's campaign with a 6-2, 6-2 win. In the other semi-final clash, second seed Vashisht Vinod Cheruku will face Tamil Nadu’s S. Manish.

Vashisht had an easy outing against sixth seed Parikshit Somani and made his way into the semi-final with a 6-2, 6-2 win while Manish got the better of Anurag Nenwani 6-2, 6-4.

In the girls' U-16 section, top seed Jennifer Luikham remained on course for a title clash with Zeel Desai after both the players registered comfortable victories in their respective quarter-final clashes.

Haryana girl Jennifer beat Shivani Amineni 6-1, 6-3 and Zeel recorded a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Sathwika Sama.

In her semi-final clash, Jennifer will take on Ramya Natrajan, who also came up with a strong performance to defeat Sabhyata Nihalini 6-0, 6-3.

Zeel will face Shivani Ingle who prevailed over Akshara Iska 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.

In the boys’ U-14 quarter-finals, Siddharth Banthia beat Sanket Tomar 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 while Saurav Kalkal defeated Himanshu Mor 6-3, 6-4. Digvijay Singh overwhelmed Megh Bhargav Patel 6-3, 6-3 and Nikit M. Reddy edged past Rohan K. Reddy 7-6(4), 6-3.