India's women's doubles pair Treesa-Jwala Gayatri have reached the semifinals of the BWF World Championships in New Delhi, securing at least a bronze medal and ending a 13-year drought in the discipline for their country, Hindustan Times and Deccan Herald report.

The result belongs to a wider story of upsets and breakthroughs at this year's championships. Canada's Victor Lai eliminated Denmark's Rasmus Gemke in the quarterfinals, Berlingske reports, ending the Dane's run at the tournament.

Lai is no stranger to the late rounds. Berlingske notes that he won a bronze medal at the previous World Championships, becoming the first Canadian medalist in the tournament's history.

The read here is that two of the more striking results at these championships share a common shape: established expectations overturned, one by a Canadian player ending a Dane's campaign, the other by an Indian pair snapping more than a decade without a women's doubles medal. Whether either story extends further depends on what the semifinals and beyond produce - but on the record so far, New Delhi has delivered genuine surprises.