Mulheim an der Ruhr (Germany), March 1: Top Indian shuttler K Srikanth made a resounding start to his campaign at the German Open Grand Prix Gold, defeating Alen Roj of Slovakia in straight games here.
Srikanth brushed aside Alen 21-4, 21-11 in a lop-sided opening round contest that lasted 21 minutes last night. He will face Japan�s Yusuke Onodera next.
Meanwhile, Subhankar Dey defeated China�s Zhao Junpeng 16-21, 21-17, 21-19 to set up a clash with fifth seed NG Ka Long Angus of Hong Kong, while Harshit Aggarwal defeated USA�s Bjorn Segun 18-21, 21-8, 21-6 in another match.
Harshit will next face eighth seed Hu Yun of Hong Kong.
Among others, it was curtains for Siril Verma and Harsheel Dani in men�s singles, while Tanvi Lad also bowed out in the opening round of women�s singles.
Tanvi lost 14-21, 12-21 to Indonesia�s Priskila Siahaya, while Siril suffered a 13-21, 10-21 loss against China�s Lin Dan and Harsheel went down 13-21, 12-21 to Chinese Taipei�s Chou Tien Chen, seeded sixth.
Rahul Yadav Chittaboina also suffered a 18-21, 18-21 defeat against Israel�s Misha Zilberman in another men�s singles opening round match. � PTI
