Top seed Gopi Chand and Arup Baidya failed to put in an appearance as the Asian Satellite Badminton Championship got off to an ominous start at the Multip Purpose Indoor Stadium on Monday.

Other Indians had a field day and the ones to make an impression were the third seed Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Ajit Wijetilek. Gupta beat Maldivian Noosa Nashid, 15-3, 15-5 and Wijetilek was no less impressive while putting out Mohammed Rasel Kabir of Bangladesh 15-10, 15-11.

RESULTS

Men singles (1st round): Ahmed Riyas (Mld) w/o P Gopi Chand (Ind); Palinda Halangoda (SL) w/o Arup Baidya (Ind); Nikhil Kanetkar (Ind) bt S Janaka (SL) 15-5, 15-1; Yeoh Kay Bin (Mas) bt Divender Dhillon (Ind) 15-10, 15-7; Ajit Wijetilek (Ind) bt M Rasal Kabir (Bgd) 15-10, 15-11; Susant Saxena (Ind) bt Abdulla Shakeb (Mld) 15-6, 15-3; Anuj Gupta (Ind) bt M Mamabubudur Rab (Bgd) 15-10, 15-1; MayurGhatnekar (Ind) bt Ali Naser Abdulla (Mld) 15-8, 15-7; Parag Modi (Ind) bt Hassan Riyaz (Mld) 15-2, 15-4; Mangrish Palekar (Ind) bt M Fernando (SL) 15-7, 15-7; Sachin Ratti (Ind) bt S Kumarappuma (SL) 15-8, 15-1; Abhinn Shyam Gupta (Ind) bt Moosa Nashid (Mld) 15-3, 15-5; Srikant Bakshi (Ind) bt U D Kumar (SL) 15-3, 15-2; Chetan Anand (Ind) bt Mohammad Sharath (Mld) 15-1, 15-3; Lee T Suen Seng (Mas) w/o Ahmed Mohammad (Mld).

Men's doubles (1st round): Anirudh Rao-Anuj Gupta bt Mohabuburrab-M Rasel Kabi (Bng) 15-3, 15-1.