Top seed and local favourite Saina Nehwal stormed into the third round of the girl's singles event of the World Junior badminton tournament on Wednesday.

Saina, who got a bye in the first round, defeated Turkey's Ozge Bayrak 21-11 21-8 in just 21 minutes.

The Beijing Olympics quarter-finalist Indian will now take on Ying Suet Tse of Hong Kong, who prevailed over Egypt's Sara Mostafa Tiseer 21-4 21-10.

Apart from Saina, no other Indian girl could progress to the third round with both P C Thulasi and Prajakta Sawant crashing out of the tournament.

Thulasi fought hard against Mei Hui Chiang of Chinese Taipei but failed to finish off the match, losing 21-18 20-22 21-23, while Prajakta lost to Shen Lin of China 8-21 6-21.

Meanwhile, RMV Gurusaidutt is the lone Indian to progress to the third round of the boy's singles following the ouster of compatriots Aditya Prakash, Pratik Patel and H S Prannoy in the second round.

Aditya was shown the door by top seed Huan Gao of China 20-22 12-21, while Pratik went down 6-21 17-21 to Tien Chen Chou of Chinese Taipei and Prannoy lost to Malaysia'a Kam Chung Kuan 15-21 16-21.

In the mixed doubles, Indian duo of Sai Praneeth B and Pradnya Gadre sailed into the third round, defeating Kiwi pair of James Eunson and Michelle Chan 21-15 21-12.

Sai and Pradnya will next face Korean pair of Young Woo Choi and Kyung Eun Jung, who beat Gary Fox and Langley Alexandra 21-15 21-7.

The other Indian combination in the fray, Pranav Chopra and Prajakta Sawant, however, bowed out in the first round, losing to Malaysia's Ryan Agung Saputra and Aurien Hudiono 16-21 17-21.