Newly-crowned Indonesia Open champion K Srikanth and title-holder Saina Nehwal progressed to the second round with contrasting wins at the Australian Super Series here on Wednesday.
Olympic silver-medallist P V Sindhu and Singapore Open Champion B Sai Praneeth also entered the second round but it was curtains for four other singles player, including giant-slayer H S Prannoy. Srikanth continued his good form by defeating Chinese Taipei's Kan Chao Yu 21-13, 21-16 in the men's singles opening round while Sai Praneeth had to sweat it out to register a hard-fought 10-21, 21-12, 21-10 win over Indonesia's Tommy Sugiarto.
In the women's singles, Saina was up against a tough opponent in fourth seed Sung Ji Hyun of Korea but the former world No 1 showed her masterclass to beat her opponent in straight games 21-10, 21-16. Olympic silver-medallist P V Sindhu saw off Indonesia Super Series Premier champion Sayaka Sato of Japan 21-17, 14-21, 21-18 in a match that lasted an hour and five minutes.
The Indian women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy defeated Australia's Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen and Jennifer Tam 21-11, 21-13.
Siril Verma was shown the door by Hans-Kristian Vittinghus of Denmark 16-21, 8-21 while Prannoy lost 19-21, 13-21 against Rajiv Ouseph of England.