However, the men’s duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lost 27-25, 21-23, 19-21 to Japan’s Hiroki Midorikawa and Kyohei Yamashita. Kidambi Srikanth and H S Prannoy also exited, losing to France’s Christo Popov, and Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew respectively

Sindhu went down 22-20, 12-21, 15-21 to Vietnam’s Thuy Linh Nguyen. Earlier, former World No. 1 Srikanth had to dig deep to outlast fellow Indian Tharun Mannepalli 15-21, 21-6, 21-19