In Badminton, Saina Nehwal today made a shock exit from the Malaysia Open Superseries Premier tournament. In the first round, she lost to 4th seeded Akane Yamaguchi of Japan, 21-19, 13-21, 15-21. Rio Olympics Silver medalist PV Sindhu, who won the India Open recently, is playing her opening round match against Yufei Chen of China.In Men's Singles, Ajay Jayaram advanced to the pre-quarterfinals after beating Qiao Bin, 21-11, 21-8. In Men's Doubles, pairs of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy lost to Chinese Taipei's Liao Kuan Hao and Lu Chia Pin, 21-18, 18-21, 17-21.