defeated the England pair of Gabrielle Adcock and Jessica Pugh 21-16 21-16.
defeated the England pair of Gabrielle Adcock and Jessica Pugh 21-16 21-16. The Indian duo will face fourth seeded Thai pair of Puttita Supajirakul and Sapsiree Taerattanachai next.
Seventh seeds Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Sikki defeated Indonesian combo of Hafiz Faizal and Shela Devi Aulia 21-15 21-19.
Saena Kawakami of Japan ended Rasika Raje's campaign beating her 21-10 21-12, while Reshma Karthik lost 9-21 8-21 to Zhang Yiman of China and Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli lost 11-21 13-21 to second seeded Sung Ji Hyun of Korea. Pardeshi Shreyanshi suffered a 14-21 18-21 defeat to Linda Zetchiri of Bulgaria.
Tanvi Lad retired midway at 6-2 due to an injury, while P C Thulasi suffered a 15-21 16-21 loss to seventh seed Nozomi Okuhara of Japan while Anura Prabhudesai lost to Sayaka Sato of Japan 21-17 21-16.
In men's doubles, it turned out to be a disappointing day as Vietnam Open winners Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lost 14-21 17-21 to Denmark's Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen.
Among other Indians in fray, women's pair of Aparna Balan and Prajakta Sawant, and Jakkampudi Meghana and Poorvisha S Ram, Juhi Dewangan and Saumya Singh, Kuhoo Garg and Ningshi Block Hazarika, Gauri Asaji and Megha Morchana Bora, Sruthi K P and Haritha Manazhiyil Harinarayanan, Mahima Aggarwal and Maneesha K also crashed out in first round.
Also crashed out were Arjun M R and Ramchandran Shlok, men's pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy, Jishnu Sanyal and Shivam Sharma, Sourabh Sharma and Anoushka Parikh, Ketan Chahal and Tanveer Gill, M Anilkumar Raju and Venkat Gaurav Prasad.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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