World Junior Championships silver medallist Tanvi Sharma and Thailand Masters champion Devika Sihag registered comfortable wins to begin their US Open campaigns in style on Wednesday.

Tanvi defeated Germany’s Yvonne Li 23-21, 21-16, while Devika brushed aside Peru’s Ines Lucia Castillo 21-14, 21-14 in the women’s singles first round.

In the first of two all-Indian clashes, rising shuttler Rounak Chouhan beat former World Junior Championships silver medallist S. Sankar Muthusamy 23-21, 21-16. Fifth seed Kidambi Srikanth then cruised past compatriot D. Saneeth 21-14, 21-12 in just 30 minutes.

Also progressing to the next round were Rakshitha Sree in women’s singles and the seventh-seeded mixed doubles pair of Dhruv Rawat and K. Maneesha.

Rakshitha eased past the Czech Republic’s Tereza Svabikova 21-15, 21-8, while Rawat and Maneesha needed just 26 minutes to dispatch Indonesia’s Wirawan Ihsan Adam and Serena Kani 21-15, 21-16.

Published on Jun 25, 2026