Kunlavut Vitidsarn and mixed doubles pair Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Supissara Paewsampran advanced to the second round of the US$950,000 BWF French Open on Tuesday.
Men’s third seed Kunlavut survived a three-game test against Wang Tzu-wei of Taiwan, fighting back from a game down to win 14-21, 21-7, 21-15 in 55 minutes.
Kunlavut will face either Kodai Naraoka of Japan or Victor Lai of Canada in the last 16 of the World Tour Super 750 event on Thursday.
Mixed pair Dechapol and Supissara had a much easier opening match, defeating Wong Tien Ci and Lim Chiew Sien of Malaysia in two games, 21-17, 21-17, to earn their berth in the last 16 round.
Dechapol and Supissara will play Jafar Hidayatullah and Felisha Alberta Nathaniel Pasaribu of Indonesia on Thursday.
However, Busanan Ongbamrung- phan made an early exit fter being forced to retire due to injury at 2-11 in the second game against Chinese fifth seed Chen Yufei. Busanan dropped the opening game 9-21.
Chen goes on to face Neslihan Arin of Turkey in the second round.
Another mixed pair, Phuwanat Horbanluekit and Benyapa Aimsaard, also exited the tournament after losing to Marvin Seidel and Nguyen Thuc Phuong of Germany 15-21, 12-21.
Dechapol was due to play his men’s doubles opener with Kittinupong Kedren later on Tuesday.
Ratchanok Intanon will face Natsuki Nidaira of Japan in her opening match on Wednesday.