<p>Top Indian male shuttlers Parupalli Kashyap and Anand Pawar eased into the third round of the Swiss Grand Prix Gold tournament, while Saina Nehwal made a winning start to her campaign in the women's singles event of the USD 125,000 event here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Kashyap, seeded third, took 33 minutes to dispose off Lukas Schmidt of Germany 21-15 21-14 last night to secure his place in the pre-quarterfinals of the men's singles event.<br /><br />While Kashyap looked a little bit shaky a times, Pawar was at his clinical best as he fended off challenge from another German Tobias Wadenka 21-11 21-4 in just 24 minutes.<br /><br />Kashyap will next face Beryno Jiann Tze Wong of Malaysia, while Pawar has a tough task at hand as he takes on sixth seed Tien Chen Chou of Chinese Taipei later today.<br /><br />Meanwhile, London Olympics bronze medallist Saina opened her campaign in the women's singles event with a straight game win over qualifier Chisato Hoshi of Japan.<br /><br />The sixth seeded Indian beat her Japanese opponent 21-12 21-12 in 34 minutes to progress to the second round.<br /><br />Saina will next face Sashina Vignes Waran of France later today, while the other Indian in fray in the women's singles event -- seventh seed P V Sindhu will be up against Canadian Li Michelle in her second round duel.</p>
<p>Top Indian male shuttlers Parupalli Kashyap and Anand Pawar eased into the third round of the Swiss Grand Prix Gold tournament, while Saina Nehwal made a winning start to her campaign in the women's singles event of the USD 125,000 event here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Kashyap, seeded third, took 33 minutes to dispose off Lukas Schmidt of Germany 21-15 21-14 last night to secure his place in the pre-quarterfinals of the men's singles event.<br /><br />While Kashyap looked a little bit shaky a times, Pawar was at his clinical best as he fended off challenge from another German Tobias Wadenka 21-11 21-4 in just 24 minutes.<br /><br />Kashyap will next face Beryno Jiann Tze Wong of Malaysia, while Pawar has a tough task at hand as he takes on sixth seed Tien Chen Chou of Chinese Taipei later today.<br /><br />Meanwhile, London Olympics bronze medallist Saina opened her campaign in the women's singles event with a straight game win over qualifier Chisato Hoshi of Japan.<br /><br />The sixth seeded Indian beat her Japanese opponent 21-12 21-12 in 34 minutes to progress to the second round.<br /><br />Saina will next face Sashina Vignes Waran of France later today, while the other Indian in fray in the women's singles event -- seventh seed P V Sindhu will be up against Canadian Li Michelle in her second round duel.</p>