Top Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth advanced to the second round of the French Open with straight-game wins but it was curtains for Sameer Verma at the $ 750,000 BWF event here on Wednesday.
Saina, who finished runner-up in the Denmark Open last week, outclassed Japan's Saena Kawakami 21-11, 21-11 in the women's singles, while defending champion Srikanth beat Hong Kong's Wong Wing Ki Vincent 21-19, 21-13 in the men's singles match in the opening round of the World Tour Super 750 event.
2017 Singapore Open Champion B Sai Praneeth also crossed the opening hurdle, beating Brazil's Ygor Coelho 21-13, 21-17 to set up a clash with Asian Games Gold medallist Jonatan Christie of Indonesia.
Sameer, who had reached the quarterfinals last week, went down fighting 21-16, 17-21, 15-21 to Christie in a little over an hour match.
Men's doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy defeated Korean duo of Min Hyuk Kang and Kim Won Ho 21-18, 21-17.
Women's doubles pair of Meghana Jakkampudi and Poorvisha S Ram also entered the second round after defeating Belgium's Lise Jaques and Flore Vandenhoucke 21-12, 21-12.
Men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also had a good outing as they outwitted German combination of Jones Ralfy Jansen and Josche Zurwonne 21-13, 21-15 in 35 minutes. They duo will cross swords with Chinese pair of He Jiting and Tan Qiang next.
However, Satwiksairaj and Ashwini Ponnappa couldn't get across the husband-wife combination of Chris Adcock and Gabrielle Adcock from England, going down narrowly 22-24, 21-18, 19-21 in mixed doubles
Top seeded Chinese mixed doubles pair of Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong ended the campaign of Rohan Kapoor and Kuhoo Garg with a 21-5, 21-10 win.