Newly-crowned Canada Open champion Lakshya Sen began his men's singles campaign with a convincing win over Finland's Kalle Koljonen while Olympic medallist shuttler PV Sindhu defeated her American opponent of Indian origin Disha Gupta at the US Open Super 300 badminton tournament.

In another men's singles match, S Sankar Subramanian, who had entered the main draw of the tournament after two tough qualifying matches, defeated his tricky Irish opponent Nhat Nguyen 21-11, 21-16 in the first round.