Top seed Kidambi Srikanth has stormed into the semifinals of the 120,000 US Dollar Swiss Grand Prix Gold badminton championships. At Basel in Switzerland today, he recorded a straight-game win over Takuma Ueda of Japan in a one-sided men's singles quarterfinal match. World Number Four Srikanth beat his eight seeded Japanese opponent 21-11 21-12 in just 31 minutes. However, it was curtains for 12th seed B Sai Praneeth after the Indian went down to seventh seed Hsu Jen Hao of Chinese Taipei 18-21 12-21 in another pre-quarterfinal match.