Former Thomas Cup winner Prannoy, who is ranked 33rd in the BWF world rankings, is the highest-ranked Indian player in the event and defeated Brazil's Coelho Ygor in straight games in the event being played at the Sydney Qcentre.

Prannoy defeated the Brazilian 21-10, 23-21 in 47 minutes to enter the second round of the men's singles event at the USD 420,000 BWF World Tour Super 500 Series event.

Sameer Verma and Kiran George also reached the second round, while Mithun Manjunath, Ravi, Abhishek Yeligar, Raghu Mariswamy and S. Shankar Muthusamy Subramaniam was eliminated in the first round itself.

Sameer Verma defeated Ricky Tang of Australia 21-10, 21-10 while Kiran George defeated Xiaodong Sheng 21-17, 21-10. Manjunath lost to Indonesia's Farhan Alvi 17-21, 17-21; Ravi lost to Lin Chun-Yi of Chinese Taipei 6-21, 13-21, Yeliger lost to Misha Zilberman of Israel 9-21, 15-21; Raghu lost to sixth-seeded Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei 6-21, 8-21, while Shankar Muthusamy lost to third-seeded Li Zi Jia of Malaysia 16-21, 21-18, 10-21 in a tough three-game contest. Lost to.The competition which lasted just over an hour.-

In women's singles, Akarshi Kashyap defeated Polina Buharova of Ukraine 21-14, 21-11 in just 36 minutes to enter the second round. In other women's singles matches, Anupama Upadhyay defeated Malaysia's Ling Ching Wong 21-14, 23-31 while Malvika Bansod defeated compatriot Keyura Mopati 21-10, 21-8.

India's Samia Imad Farooqui lost to Chinese Taipei's Yu Po Pai 23-21, 13-21, 22-24 in a tough match that lasted 63 minutes.

In mixed doubles, B. The Indian pair of Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy defeated Malaysia's Oei Tin Wong and Chiw Hsien Lim 21-17, 21-19, but Tarun Kona and Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli lost to Malaysia's Pang Ron Hu and Su Yin Cheng.-21, 11-21.

In men's doubles, Abhimanyu Rajin and Aman Nandal gave a walkover to Australia's Anish Nirmal and Stephen Sam Emmanuel in their first round match.