The third-seeded PV Sindhu defeated World No. 39 Saena Kawakami of Japan 21-15, 21-13 in the opening round at the Olympic Sports Center Xincheng Gymnasium.
It turned out to be a dismal day for Saina and Prannoy, who had clinched the National championship titles at Nagpur earlier this month.
world no. 2 Sindhu was made to work hard by her Japanese opponent Sato as the Indian toiled hard for 59 minutes on the court to get the better of Sato 24-22 23-21.
The ace shuttler will now square off with fifth-seed Akane Yamaguchi of Japan for a place in the quarter-finals of the women's singles event of China Open.
The leading Indian players, including Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu, will also be in action tomorrow.
Kidambi Srikanth, who clinched four titles and reached five finals in this season, will be taking a break this week to nurse a muscle strain.
World No.1 Nadal, who was tied with Roger Federer and Alexander Zverev at five titles this season, picked up his 75th career singles trophy with the win in Beijing.
The 15th-ranked Garcia, who lost to Halep the two previous times they played, will make her top-10 debut when the new WTA rankings will come out on Monday.
The French Open and U.S. Open champion is one of three men to win five titles this year, along with Roger Federer and Alexander Zverev.
The new world number one will play the winner of the semifinal between Garcia and 12th-seeded Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the finals of China Open.
After comfortably winning the first set, the Indo-Chinese duo slumped to a shocking 6-2, 1-6, 5-10 defeat at the hands of Swiss star Martina Hingis and Chan Yung-Jan of China.
The third-seeded Indo-Chinese pair of Sania and Peng came from a set down to beat fifth-seeded Czech pair of Barbora Strycova and Katerina Siniakov 4-6 6-2 10-7 in the quarterfinals.
The world number one will next play third-seeded Grigor Dimitrov in the semis, who defeated Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-2.
Sania-Peng duo defeated the Belgian-Dutch pair of Elise Mertens and Demi Schuurs 7-5, 6-2 to enter the quarterfinals.
The Indo-Argentine duo failed to replicate their good performance in the opening round and slump to a narrow 5-7, 6-7 (6-8) defeat.
As the same as in the first set, the Romanian star won the set in the eighth game when she served, snatching her first ever career victory over Sharapova.
The former World No.1 was also scheduled to play at the Rogers Cup in Toronto this week but withdrew because of injury.
Indian badminton sensation PV Sindhu on Sunday defeated Chinese Sun Yu in the final of China Open to clinch her first Super Series title.
Indian shuttler and Rio Olympics silver-medallist P V Sindhu today defeated South Korea’s Sung Ji Hyun to enter the final of China Open. The 21-year-old defeated Hyun in the semi-finals clash by 11-21, 23-21, 21-19.
India’s ace shuttler and London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal who is on a comeback trial after undergoing a knee surgery feels her career may face an abrupt end.
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