PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy and the women's duo of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand made it to the second round of the Singapore Open BWF Super-750 tournament on Wednesday.
Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Simran Singhi-Ritika Thaker, Sathish Kumar-Aadya Variyath, Krishna Prasad-Sai Pratheek, Sumeeth Reddy-Sikki Reddy and Venkat Gaurav-Juhi Dewangan lost their first-round matches.
Lakshya went down fighting against Viktor Axelsen of Denmark 13-21, 21-16, 13-21. Srikanth retired against Kodai Naraoka of Japan 14-21, 3-11. World No. 10 Prannoy struggled past world No. 45 Julien Carraggi of Belgium 21-9, 18-21, 21-9.
Prannoy will face world No. 11 Kenta Nishimoto of Japan next. Nishimoto enjoys a 3-2 win-loss record against Prannoy.
Sindhu beat Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldt of Denmark 21-12, 22-20 to set up a second-round clash with third seed Carolina Marin of Spain. Marin defeated Goh Jin Wei of Malaysia 22-20, 21-18.
