Indian shuttlers are continuing to surge ahead in the ongoing French Open Super Series badminton tournament. At Paris today, fifth seeded Saina Nehwal made it to the women's singles third round. She defeated Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland in straight games 21-19 21-16 in the second round. Ashwini Ponappa also won her second-round match with mixed doubles partner Vladimir Ivanov. The Indo-Russian pair got past the Chinese duo of Lu Kai and Huang Yaqiong 21-8 18-21 21-9.Commonwealth Games gold medallist Parupalli Kashyap had stunned World No 4 Kenichi Tago of Japan 21-11 21-18 in the first round of men's singles draw yesterday.