India's Olympic bronze medallist shuttler Saina Nehwal advanced to the women's singles pre-quarterfinals of the US $ 170,000 Barcelona Spain Masters with a 21-16 21-14 win over Germany's Yvonne Li here on Wednesday.
In men's singles, Ajay Jayaram beat Christo Popov of France 21-14 21-12 in a 30 minute first round match, third seeded Srikanth defeated compatriot Subhankar Dey 23-21 21-18 in a hard-fought 41-minute contest.
Srikanth and Jayaram run into each other in the pre-quarterfinals on Thursday.
Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Sikki N Reddy beat Denmark's Mathias Christiansen and Alexandra Boje 10-21 21-16 21-17.
