Odense: Returning to Action After the break, the P V Sindhu double Olympic medalist saw Nespi Yigit Turkey in a direct match to join compatriot Kidambi Srikanth and Sameer Verma in the second round of Denmark opened here on Tuesday.
Sindhu, the ruling world champion, took 30 minutes to cross Yigit, ranked 29th, 21-12 21-10 in his son’s singles opening from the super 1000 BWF World Tour 1000 tournament.
The fourth seed Indians, who have missed the Sudirman Cup and The Uber Cup final after the Tokyo Olympics, will face Bukaran Ongbamrungphan in Thailand.
The former Srikanth and Sameer champions also won starting from their men’s singles campaign at the USD 850,000 event.
While Srikanth, who has claimed the title in 2017, outstuted his compatriot B Sai Praneeth 21-14 21-11 in 30 minutes, Sameer, Rank 28, valid throughout the world of Thailand No.
21 Kunlavut Vitidsarn 21-17 21-14 in 42 minutes of clashes.
World No.
14 Srikanth will meet the world No.
1 and the top seed Kento Momota Japan in the second round, while Sameer is likely to face the Third Seed of Denmark Anders in the next round.
However, Indian men’s doubles, have mixed days in the office.
While Satwikaraj Ranking Ranking and Chirag Shetty defeated the British pair Pallum Hemming and Steven Stallwood 23-21 21-15 in their opening, Mr Arjun and Dhruv Kapila shocked the United Kingdom No.
17 pair from Ben Lane and Sean Vendy 21-19 21-15 to make positive start for their campaign.
But Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy lost 18-21 11-21 to Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin Malaysia in the opening round to bow from the competition.
The World No.
7 Sindhu, who has claimed bronze in the Tokyo match to go with Medal Rio Silver, barely sweat during his opening contest against Yigit.
Indians rose 5-4 and then continued to move forward to pocket the opening game comfortably.
The second game is no different from Sindhu deleting a 1-3 deficit to lead 10-4.
Yigit made him 9-10 before Indians made an advantage of two points at rest.
After the interval, it is a one-way traffic like Sindhu sealed a contest without much ADO.