Star Indian shuttlers Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty beat Chinese Taipei’s Lee Yang and Lu Chen to progress to the boys’s doubles second spherical of the Hylo Open Super 300 event in Saarbrucken, Germany on Wednesday. The third seeded Indians, who received the French Open Super 750 title final week for his or her largest win on the world tour, overcame a recreation deficit to beat Yang and Chen 19-21 21-19 21-16 of their first-ever assembly. The world quantity eight pairing subsequent face England’s Rory Eastron and Zach Russ. Satwik and Chirag is having a dream run this yr. They received the Indian Open, Commonwealth Games gold, Thomas Cup crown and an unprecedented bronze on the World Championships in August.

In different Indian outcomes, H S Prannoy and males’s doubles pair of M R Arjun-Dhruv Kapila gave walkovers to their respective rivals of their first-round matches. London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal made one other first spherical exit, shedding 15-21 8-21 to Thailand’s fourth seed Busanan Ongbamrungphan within the girls’s singles occasion.

However, Malvika Bansod fought her approach into the second spherical of the ladies’s singles with a hard-fought 20-22 21-12 21-6 win over Spain’s Clara Aazurmendi.

Bansod will subsequent play Scotland’s seventh seed Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland.