The Indian disappointed the home French crowd by winning in three against eighth seed Lucas Corvée at the Palais des Sports.

Verma eventually won 17-21, 21-19, 21-15 to set-up a semi-final with fourth-seeded Dutchman Mark Caljouw.

He came through a tough two-game affair against Jan Ø. Jørgensen of Denmark, 24-22, 23-21.

Three of the top four seeds remain involved with only number two ranked Ygor Coelho de Oliveira of Brazil out of the competition.

Third-seeded Dane Rasmus Gemke progressed by beating fifth-seeded Indian Parupalli Kashyap 21-18, 21-14.

He will play home French player Lucas Claerbout who won an all unseeded affair against Germany's Alexander Roovers, 21-13, 19-21, 21-17.

In the women's event, second-seed Mia Blichfeldt of Denmark remains on course for the title with top ranked Beatriz Corrales of Spain a casualty in the first round.

Blichfeldt booked her semi-final spot by beating Natalia Perminova of Russia, 21-16, 21-17.

She will now play unseeded Indonesian Ruselli Hartawan after her 21-10, 17-21, 21-17 win over Kisona Selvaduray of Malaysia.

Chinese qualifier Qi Xuefei came from behind to remain in the competition, knocking out seventh seed Neslihan Yiğit of Turkey 17-21, 21-16, 21-11.

Her reward is a semi-final with another unseeded player in Japan's Shiori Saito, who was a 21-15, 21-17 winner over Indonesian eighth seed Gregoria Mariska Tunjung.

The semi-finals will be played at the Super 100 World Tour event tomorrow.