Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth advanced to the second round of the World Championship in men's singles with a straight game win over Russia's Sergey Sirant in the competition which began in Glasgow, Scotland today. The eighth seeded Indian, defeated Sirant 21-13, 21-12 in less than 30 minutes. Srikanth will now take on France's Lucas Corvee in the second round tomorrow. World No.8 Srikanth had won the Indonesia Super Series Premier and Australian Super series Open in June.India has sent its largest contingent comprising 21-shuttlers to the event with Rio Olympic Silver medalist PV Sindhu leading from front.In Women's Singles event, Sindhu is seeded 4th while London Olympic medalist Saina Nehwal, has been seeded 12th. They both have got byes in their first round. Tanvi Lad and Rituparna Das are the other Indian women shuttlers who will play their first round matches today.In Men's Singles event, Ajay Jayaram 13th seed, B Sai Praneeth 15th seed and Sameer Verma will also play their first round matches today.In the doubles, 3 Indian pair are participating in both men's and women's event. In the mixed doubles, pair of Pranaav Jerry and N Sikki Reddy and B. Sumeeth and Ashwini Ponappa are in the second round while Satwiksairaj and Maneesha are in the first round and Prajakta Sawant has paired up with Yogendran Khrishnan of Malaysia in the event.