birmingham ace indian shuttlers pv sindhu kidambi srikanth and lakshya sen sailed into the prequarterfinals of their respective singles events after recording comfortable victories at the commonwealth games on thursdaywhile twotime olympic medallist sindhu routed maldives fathimath nabaaha abdul razzaq 214 2111 in the womens singles first round srikanth outclassed daniel wanagaliya of uganda 219 219 in the mens singles eventlater in the day sen and akarshi kashyap joined the senior duo in the round of 16 after notching up contrasting wins in their respective opening mens and womens singles matchesworld championships bronze medallist sen was up against an opponent more than twice his age 45yearold vernon smeed of st helena and the indian eased to a 211 216 win in quick timehowever kashyap had to toil hard in her opening round match against mahoor shahzad and made it the next round after the pakistani shuttler suffered an injury and retired while trailing 18 in the second gamesindhu will next face ugandas husina kobugabe srikanth takes on sri lankas dumindu abeywickrama sen will square off against australias lin ying xiang and world number 57 kashyap will meet cypruss eva kattirtzihowever it was curtains for ashwini ponnappa and b sumeeth reddy who suffered a 1821 1621 loss to world number 47 callum hemming and jessica pugh in the opening round of mixed doubles competitiontaking the court first the last editions silver medallist sindhu did not need her a game since the maldives shuttler was no match to her classfathimath produced some resistance in the second game but sindhu pulled away from 99srikanth was crestfallen after losing his singles match against lowerranked tze yong ng of malaysia in the mixed team final but the world number 13 indian seemed to have taken it in his stride as he comfortably beat his rivalhe used his crosscourt angled drop shots to good effect to pocket points most of the points which the ugandan shuttler managed were from unforced errors of srikanth