In their second round match at the Palacio de los Deportes Carolina Marín, Yew Sin-Ee Yi easily beat Joel Eipe-Rasmus Kjaer of Denmark 21-12 in the first game.

However, the ninth seeded Malaysians faced stiff resistance in the second game before they finally won 21-19 in 39 minutes.

Yew Sin-Ee Yi, the world No 12, will face eighth seeded and world No 9 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty of India, who beat Taiwan’s Lee Jhe Huei-Yang Po Hsuan 21-4, 21-12.

Also through to the third round are national mixed doubles pair Tan Kian Meng-Lai Pei Jing, who scored a convincing 21-8, 21-18 win over India’s Saurabh Sharma-Anoushka Parikh.

The ninth seeded Kian Meng-Pei Jing will next meet third seeds and Tokyo Olympics 2020 bronze medallists Yuta Watanabe-Arisa Higashino of Japan.

Another Malaysian men’s doubles pair also advanced to the third round. Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin Rumsani beat Alexander Dunn-Adam Hall of Scotland in three games.

After easily winning the first game at 21-14, Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin trailed for most of the second before losing 19-21.

However, they bounced back in the decider with a spirited display to take the game and match at 21-16 in almost one hour.

In the third round, Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin will take on 2020 Tokyo Olympic champions Lee Yang-Wang Chi Lin of Taiwan, who were upset by the Malaysians in the second round of the Indonesian Open in Bali last month.