Saina Nehwal and P Kashyap today advanced to the second round of the French Open Badminton tournament in Paris. In the opening round matches, while world number one Saina defeated Michelle Li of Canada, 21-18, 21-13, eighth placed Kashyap beat Thomas Rouxel of France, 21-11, 22-20.PV Sindhu, who made it to her first Super Series final at the Denmark Open last week, will take on higher seed Shixian Wang of China in the first round later in the day.K. Srikanth, Ajay Jayaram, HS Prannoy and the pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa will also be seen in action today.