Srikanth made a good start to the first game, opening up a 4-2 lead. The world number nine Indian then went on to win the next four points to take a comfortable 8-3 lead and and went on to build on his advantage from there.In the second game, Srikanth took a 9-4 lead early on. Huang did well to close down the gap before Srikanth won another point to go into the interval with an 11-7 lead.