India, July 3 -- Kidambi Srikanth retired early from his opening match due to fitness issues, even as Tanya Hemnath and Aakarshi Kashyap emerged as the only Indian shuttlers to progress to the women's singles second round at the Canada Open Super 300 event badminton tournament here.

The 33-year-old Srikanth, who registered a runner-up finish at the US Open Super 300 last Sunday, was lagging 10-11 against Paris Olympic bronze medallist Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia in the men's singles opening round when he decided to throw in the towel after consulting with coach B Sai Praneeth.

Aakarshi saw off Anna Tatranova of France 21-14, 21-12 to set up a meeting with fourth seed Beiwen Zhang of the USA, while Tanya prevailed 21-16, 21-18 over USA's Dis...