China's current world No. 3 Lin Dan advanced to the second round of the OUE Singapore Open 2016 by beating world No. 32 Ihsan Maulana Mustofa of Indonesia in two straight set 21-16, 21-19 victory at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Wednesday.

"It's been four years since I've been here and it's my first match in this tournament, so it's been okay so far." Lin, who managed to finish as the tourney's runner-up way back 2011, said. "It's only Wednesday and there were so many fans, so I'm quite happy about that."

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According to The New Paper, the two-time men's singles Olympic gold medalist attracted an estimated crowd of around 500, who witnessed the 32-year-old five-time world champion claim a 2-0 triumph over the 20-year-old Indonesian shuttler.

"The draught was not bad today; perhaps the tournament hasn't been that exciting for a few years now and the organizers have thus considered how to give the players the best playing conditions,"  Lin, who will be facing Indonesia's Christie Jonatan in the next round, said.

Meanwhile, in the other matches of the badminton tournament, current world No. 1 Chen Long of China avoided an early opening round elimination after beating the 2016 Swiss Open champion H.S. Prannoy of India 18-21, 21-18, 21-19 wrapping up the victory in 71 minutes to move to the next stage of the competition.

Women's singles top player Carolina Marin of Spain defeated world no. 23 Indonesian Lindaweni Farnetri in two straight sets 21-12, 21-9. The world No. 1 rolled her left ankle slightly in the opening set of the match, where the two-time world champion was ahead at 17-11, but the elite Spaniard shuttler finished the match with little fuss.

World No. 4 Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand overcame No. 29 Cheung Ngan Yi of Hong Kong 21-14, 21-10 while Japanese world No. 3 Nozomi Okuhara eased past Yulia Yosephin Susanto of Indonesia with  21-5, 21-9 straight sets triumph.

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