In the men's section, national champion Chetan Baboor beat Wong Kai Siong of Brunei 21-8, 21-8, 21-9, Deepak Thukral beat Khasag Erdenebayar of Mongolia 21-12, 21-12, 21-11, S Raman beat Ng Shui Leong of Malaysia 21-14, 21-10, 21-17 and Arup Basak beat Ermek Beknazarov of Kazakhstan 21-11, 21-17, 21-11. Soumyadeep Roy got a walkover from Khalid al Harbi of Saudi Arabia, according to results provided by AFP.

In the women's singles, Kasturi Chakravarty scored an easy 21-14, 21-18, 21-10 win over Wong Lok-Tim of Macau but MS Mythili dropped a game while beating Ng Sock Khim of Malaysia 21-17, 18-21, 21-17, 21-11. Poulomi Ghatak beat Liu Yuan of Singapore 21-19, 22-20, 21-16 but NR Indu went down tamely to North Korean Son Mi-Suk 12-21, 15-21, 8-21.

Thukraland Mythili put up the best show in the mixed doubles, reaching the third round where they fell 14-21, 12-21 to top seeds Liu Guoliang and Li Ju of China. They beat Asim Qureshi (Pakistan) and Irina Makhachek (Turkmenistan) 21-16, 21-14 in the second round after receiving first round byes.

The other Indian pairs did not cross the second round. Roy and Chakravarty lost to fourth seeds Yan Sen of China and Chan Tan-Lui (Hong Kong) 14-21, 10-21 after a walkover against Simon Gerada and Miao Miao (Australia). Raman and Indu lost in the first round to Mohammad Zainuddin and Ceria Nilasari Jusma (Indonesia) 18-21, 21-12, 13-21.