Squash: Shuja into Chennai Open semifinals

New Zealand No 1 Kashif Shuja is through to the semifinals of the Chennai Open squash event in India.

The top seed recovered from being a game down to beat Hungarian fifth seed Mark Krajcsak 8-11 11-8 11-6 11-6 in the quarterfinals yesterday.

Kashif will meet India's Siddarth Suchde in the last four later today.

* Quarterfinal results:

KASHIF SHUJA (NZ) bt Mark Krajcsak (Hungary) 8-11 11-8 11-6 11-6,
Siddarth Suchde (India) bt Saurav Ghosal (India) 11-9 11-10 10-11 11-7,
Dylan Bennett (Netherlands) bt Ayappan Parthiban (India) 11-10 11-7 11-8,
Ritwik Bhattacharya (India) bt Timothy Arnold (Malaysia) 11-6 11-4 11-8.

- NZPA