And winning points became rather difficult for Parthiban, who won the first game 11-9 but committed some silly mistakes in the second to lose at 8-11.

Parthiban was in his elements in winning the third at 11-4, but Wong fought for each point in the fourth game. The rivals were going neck to neck to 5-5 before Parthiban led 8-5.

Here, Wong made Parthiban to work harder from back court to the front and the Indian's four successive unforced errors helped Wong to level the score at 9-9 but he failed to sustain thereafter.

The Jangra brothers made most of their junior rivals to progress to the final qualifying. Mahesh Mangoankar and Ramit Tandon bit the dust losing to Sandeep Jangra and Vikas jangra, while Naveen Jangra got the better of Abhishek Pradhan (Ind) 11-4, 11-8, 9-11, 11-8 in 40 minutes.

Results (1st round, qualifying):

Balamurugan (Ind) bt Paul Mathieson (Ita) 4-11, 11-8, 11-2, 11-9 (37m), Sandeep Jangra (Ind) bt Mahesh Mangoankar (Ind) 11-7, 12-10, 11-7 (33m), Roger Ngan (HK) bt Vrishab Koitan (Ind) 11-4, 11-3, 11-5 (19m), Vikas Jangra (Ind) bt Ramit Tandon (Ind) 7-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-7 (40m), Karan Malik (Ind) bt Paramit Singh (Ind) 8-11, 11-7, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8 (43m), Maekwawa Kousuke (Jpn-3rd seed) bt Akshay Deepak (Ind) 11-6, 11-5, 11-7 (28m), Naveen Jangra (Ind) bt Abhishek Pradhan (Ind) 11-4, 11-8, 9-11, 11-8(40m) and A.Parthiban (Ind) bt Hon Fung Wong (HK-2nd seed) 11-9, 8-11, 11-4, 11-9 (41m).