<p class="title">Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal, P V Sindhu and H S Prannoy made positive starts to their campaign, progressing to the second round of $400,000 Hong Kong Super Series on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">London Olympics bronze medallist Saina staved off a spirited challenge from World No. 44 Mette Poulsen of Denmark before emerging 21-19, 23-21 winner in a 46-minute match.</p>.<p class="bodytext">World No. 11 Saina, who won the bronze at the World Championship, will next face a tough opponent in eighth seeded Chinese Chen Yufei, who had clinched the other bronze at the Glasgow Worlds in August.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Olympic silver medallist Sindhu, seeded second, disposed off Hong Kong's Leung Yuet Yee 21-18, 21-10 to set up a clash with either Japan's Aya Ohori or Russia's Evgeniya Kosetskaya in the next round.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In men's singles competition, Prannoy survived a scare against Hong Kong's Hu Yun to win 19-21, 21-17, 21-15 in a match that lasted a little over an hour.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The World No. 10 Indian will face Japan's Kazumasa Sakai, who had defeated the Indian in the semifinals of Indonesia Open Super Series Premier.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap squandered an opening game advantage to go down narrowly 21-15, 9-21, 20-22 to Korean Lee Dong Keun, while Sourabh Verma failed to put up a fight against Indonesia's Tommy Sugiarto, losing 15-21, 8-21 to bow out of the competition.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy played their hearts out before going down 11-21, 21-19, 19 -21 against the Chinese combo of Huang Dongping and Li Wenmei in a hard-fought contest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prannoy lagged behind for most part of the opening game even though he did manage to turn the tables a few times, taking slender leads at 9-8, 13-12 and 16-15. But Hu Yun managed to keep his nose ahead to pocket the first game.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Indian, however, produced a better performance in the second as he fought back from 0-5 down to lead 11-8 at the break and then surged ahead, despite some tough fight from the local hero.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the decider, Hu Yun once again jumped to a 5-0 lead but Prannoy narrowed the deficit to 10-11 at the breath. Hu managed to grab a 14-12 advantage but the Indian reeled off eight straight points to move to the match point. Hu saved one before Prannoy sealed it without much ado.</p>
<p class="title">Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal, P V Sindhu and H S Prannoy made positive starts to their campaign, progressing to the second round of $400,000 Hong Kong Super Series on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">London Olympics bronze medallist Saina staved off a spirited challenge from World No. 44 Mette Poulsen of Denmark before emerging 21-19, 23-21 winner in a 46-minute match.</p>.<p class="bodytext">World No. 11 Saina, who won the bronze at the World Championship, will next face a tough opponent in eighth seeded Chinese Chen Yufei, who had clinched the other bronze at the Glasgow Worlds in August.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Olympic silver medallist Sindhu, seeded second, disposed off Hong Kong's Leung Yuet Yee 21-18, 21-10 to set up a clash with either Japan's Aya Ohori or Russia's Evgeniya Kosetskaya in the next round.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In men's singles competition, Prannoy survived a scare against Hong Kong's Hu Yun to win 19-21, 21-17, 21-15 in a match that lasted a little over an hour.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The World No. 10 Indian will face Japan's Kazumasa Sakai, who had defeated the Indian in the semifinals of Indonesia Open Super Series Premier.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap squandered an opening game advantage to go down narrowly 21-15, 9-21, 20-22 to Korean Lee Dong Keun, while Sourabh Verma failed to put up a fight against Indonesia's Tommy Sugiarto, losing 15-21, 8-21 to bow out of the competition.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy played their hearts out before going down 11-21, 21-19, 19 -21 against the Chinese combo of Huang Dongping and Li Wenmei in a hard-fought contest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prannoy lagged behind for most part of the opening game even though he did manage to turn the tables a few times, taking slender leads at 9-8, 13-12 and 16-15. But Hu Yun managed to keep his nose ahead to pocket the first game.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Indian, however, produced a better performance in the second as he fought back from 0-5 down to lead 11-8 at the break and then surged ahead, despite some tough fight from the local hero.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the decider, Hu Yun once again jumped to a 5-0 lead but Prannoy narrowed the deficit to 10-11 at the breath. Hu managed to grab a 14-12 advantage but the Indian reeled off eight straight points to move to the match point. Hu saved one before Prannoy sealed it without much ado.</p>