<p class="title">Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal sailed into the women's singles second round of the China Open Super Series Premier with a straight-game win over USA's Beiwan Zhang on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Saina, who recently won the National Championships beating compatriot PV Sindhu in the final, hardly broke a sweat and needed exactly 30 minutes to tame Zhang 21-12, 21-13 in her tournament opener.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In fifth seed Akane Yamaguchi, who beat China's Xiaoxin Chen 21-12, 21-14, Saina has drawn a tough opponent in the next round.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Indian trails the Japanese one to three in head-to- head record with their three previous results going in Yamaguchi's favour.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, it was curtains for men's singles shuttler Sourabh Verma, who lost in the first round to France's Brice Leverdez 14-21, 21-15, 11-21.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also failed to cross the opening hurdle, losing to Chinese pair of Cheng Liu and Nan Zhang 13-21, 13-21.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Second seed PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy will open their campaigns in their respective events later in the day.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While Sindhu will face Sayaka Sato of Japan in the women's singles, Prannoy will take on Keun Dong Lee of Korea in his opening men's singles encounter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankiredddy and Ashwini Ponappa will also open their campaign against Denmark's Mathias Christiansen and Christinna Pedersen.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the men's doubles, it will be a tough opening match for Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy as the Indian pair has drawn top seeds Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo in the opening round, to be played later tonight.</p>
<p class="title">Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal sailed into the women's singles second round of the China Open Super Series Premier with a straight-game win over USA's Beiwan Zhang on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Saina, who recently won the National Championships beating compatriot PV Sindhu in the final, hardly broke a sweat and needed exactly 30 minutes to tame Zhang 21-12, 21-13 in her tournament opener.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In fifth seed Akane Yamaguchi, who beat China's Xiaoxin Chen 21-12, 21-14, Saina has drawn a tough opponent in the next round.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Indian trails the Japanese one to three in head-to- head record with their three previous results going in Yamaguchi's favour.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, it was curtains for men's singles shuttler Sourabh Verma, who lost in the first round to France's Brice Leverdez 14-21, 21-15, 11-21.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also failed to cross the opening hurdle, losing to Chinese pair of Cheng Liu and Nan Zhang 13-21, 13-21.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Second seed PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy will open their campaigns in their respective events later in the day.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While Sindhu will face Sayaka Sato of Japan in the women's singles, Prannoy will take on Keun Dong Lee of Korea in his opening men's singles encounter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankiredddy and Ashwini Ponappa will also open their campaign against Denmark's Mathias Christiansen and Christinna Pedersen.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the men's doubles, it will be a tough opening match for Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy as the Indian pair has drawn top seeds Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo in the opening round, to be played later tonight.</p>