Indian shuttlers Ajay Jayaram and Sourabh Verma entered the second round of the Chinese Taipei tournament today.
Jayaram staved off a spirited challenge from Japan’s Hashiru Shimono and defeated 18-21, 21-17, 21-9 within an hour to set up a second-round clash with Denmark’s Kim Bruun next.
Sourabh Verma beat local boy Lee Chia-Hao 18-21, 21-16, 21-13.
Verma will take on Riichi Takeshita of Japan in the next round.
The second round matches will be played tomorrow.
However, young Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli could not cross the opening hurdle, despite giving her everything as she went down 21-23, 20-22 to Lin Ying Chun of Chinese Taipei.
Among others, Abhishek Yeligar and Mugdha Agrey too flopped in the opening round as they went down without a fight.
While Abhishek was shown the door by fifth seed Jan O Jorgensen of Denmark 5-21, 6-21 in men’s singles, seventh seed Soniia Cheah of Malaysia ended Mugdha’s campaign with a 21-11, 21-4 win. India’s Tarun Kona and his Malaysian partner Lim Khim Wah also suffered the same fate, losing 13-21, 10-21 to fourth-seeded Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi of Malaysia.