The Indian pair had bowed out of the tournament at the same stage during the last edition as well when they lost to China's Shu Xian Zhang and Yu Zheng
Current World No. 19 Lakshya Sen, who had lost to Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen in the All England Open final last year, lost 21-13, 21-15 to world No. 18 Antonsen in the round of 16 of the BWF Super 1000 event.
The senior nationals were not held for the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic and returns to a city that is widely considered as the birthplace of shuttle badminton
Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen hardly broke a sweat and defeated Japanese shuttler Kodai Naraoka by a 21-12, 21-11 scoreline in his men's singles round of 32 match.
At the Malaysia Open earlier this month, Kidambi was defeated by Japanese player Kenta Nishimoto to crash out in the first round as per the Olympics website.
Sarma spent almost an hour talking to officials from the Badminton World Federation, discussing ways to make this BWF World Tour Super 750 event a grand success.
The Indian duo, who had lost the first set, was trailing 17-10 in the second and appeared poised to defeat but the ace shuttlers ranked fifth in the world in men's doubles, made a stunning comeback to win the match 17-21, 22-20, 21-9.
Since Marin defeated Sindhu in the Swiss Open final in 2021, this was the first encounter between the Rio 2016 finalists. It was PV Sindhu's first game following her gold medal victory at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in August.
World Championships bronze medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty got the better of the Korean duo of Choi Sol-gyu and Kim Won-ho by 21-16, 21-13 in the first round of the tournament.