Two-time silver medallist P V Sindhu outsmarted Chinese Taipei's Pai Yu Po 21-14 21-14 in her opening match at the BWF World Championships at Basel in Switzerland today.
   
The fifth-seeded Indian, who received a bye in the opening round, is likely to face USA's Beiwen Zhang, seeded ninth, in the pre-quarterfinals.

Sindhu, an Olympic silver medallist, had lost to Zhang at the India Open finals last year.

Among others, the Indian pairing of Jakkapudi Meghana and Poorvisha S Ram went down 8-21 18-21 to eighth seeds Shiho Tanaka and Koharu Yonemoto of Japan in the women's doubles competition.