Birmingham: London Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal advanced to the quarter finals of the All England Championship with a straight-game victory over Belaetrix Manuputi of Indonesia in the second round of the women’s singles on Thursday.

World No.2 Saina defeated Belaetrix 21-16, 21-11 in a 34-minute match at the National Indoor Arena. The 22-year-old will next take on sixth seed Chinese Shixian Wang on Friday.

Rising Indian shuttler PV Sindhu, however, crashed out after suffering a straight-game defeat to fourth seed Juliane Schenk of Germany in the pre-quarter finals.

World No. 16 Sindhu suffered a 17-21, 14-21 loss to the German. Juliane rode on her smashes and better net play to outdo the Indian.

Among others, top Indian male shuttler Parupalli Kashyap booked his place in the pre-quarter finals after notching up a straight-game win over Jen Hao Hsu of Chinese Taipei. World No.9 Kashyap won his first round match 21-17, 21-18 in 43 minutes. He now runs into seventh seed Kenichi Tago of Japan.

Sourabh Verma, who made it to the main draw after playing in the qualifying round, was the other Indian making it to the round of 16 in the men’s singles event.

Verma beat Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka of Indonesia 10-21 21-14 24-22 in a hard-fought 59-minute duel. He now faces eighth seed Tien Minh Nguyen of Vietnam in the pre-quarters.

It was, however, curtains for Ajay Jayaram who lost 21-15, 18-21, 10-21 to Zhengming Wang of China. In the mixed doubles, V Diju and Jwala Gutta made it to the pre-quarter finals with a 21-9, 21-17 win over Peter Kaesbauer and Isabel Herttrich of Germany.