Rising Indian women’s doubles pair Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Pullela Gopichand on Tuesday sailed into the Round-of-16 of the Malaysia Open Super 1000 badminton tournament, while ace shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Saina Nehwal suffered first-round exit on Tuesday. 

Commonwealth Games bronze medallist pair Treesa and Gayatri registered a straight game 21-19, 21-14 victory over Hong Kong’s Yeung Nga Ting and Yeung Pui Lam of Hong Kong here at Axiata Arena. Earlier, World championships silver medallist Srikanth, who is struggling with his form lately, failed to register a win in the year’s first tournament and lost 19-21, 14-21 to World No.17 Kenta Nishimoto of Japan. On the other hand, Nehwal went down fighting 12-21, 21-17, 12-21 to Han Yue of China.