<p class="title">Saina Nehwal emerged as the lone Indian survivor at the USD 600,000 Korea Open after reaching the pre-quarterfinals with a straight-game win over Korea's Kim Hyo Min at the BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament here Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The former world no 1 Indian, who won a Commonwealth Games gold and a bronze at the 18th Asian Games this year, defeated Kim Hyo Min 21-12, 21-11 in a lop-sided opening round contest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The fifth seeded Indian will face a local qualifier Kim Ga Eun next.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, it was curtains for Swiss Open champion Sameer Verma and rising shuttler Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While Sameer, who had secured the Hyderabad Open title early this week, ran out of steam against Denmark's Anders Antonsen, going down 21-15, 16-21, 7-21 in a men's singles match, young Vaishnavi was ousted 10-21, 9-21 by sixth seed Beiwen Zhang of USA.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Saina didn't face much competition from her first-round opponent as she opened up a 6-2 lead early on and then jumped to a 12-3 advantage before slowly and steadily moving ahead to pocket the first game.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the second game, Saina again moved to a 5-2 lead first and kept distancing herself from Kim, who tried to stay close to the Indian. But Saina was too tough for the Korean as she moved to 18-10 and then sealed the contest comfortably.</p>
<p class="title">Saina Nehwal emerged as the lone Indian survivor at the USD 600,000 Korea Open after reaching the pre-quarterfinals with a straight-game win over Korea's Kim Hyo Min at the BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament here Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The former world no 1 Indian, who won a Commonwealth Games gold and a bronze at the 18th Asian Games this year, defeated Kim Hyo Min 21-12, 21-11 in a lop-sided opening round contest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The fifth seeded Indian will face a local qualifier Kim Ga Eun next.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, it was curtains for Swiss Open champion Sameer Verma and rising shuttler Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While Sameer, who had secured the Hyderabad Open title early this week, ran out of steam against Denmark's Anders Antonsen, going down 21-15, 16-21, 7-21 in a men's singles match, young Vaishnavi was ousted 10-21, 9-21 by sixth seed Beiwen Zhang of USA.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Saina didn't face much competition from her first-round opponent as she opened up a 6-2 lead early on and then jumped to a 12-3 advantage before slowly and steadily moving ahead to pocket the first game.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the second game, Saina again moved to a 5-2 lead first and kept distancing herself from Kim, who tried to stay close to the Indian. But Saina was too tough for the Korean as she moved to 18-10 and then sealed the contest comfortably.</p>