PV Sindhu to start Asian Games 2026 campaign in Aichi-Nagoya on September 20
PV Sindhu will begin her Asian Games 2026 campaign on Sunday, September 20, in the women’s team event in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. She is set to move into the individual women’s singles draw from September 25.
The 31-year-old, described in the source as India’s most decorated badminton player, is named in a nine-player squad that includes Unnati Hooda, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand, Kavipriya Selvam, Simran Singhi, Tanisha Crasto, Tanvi Sharma, Devika Sihag and Isharani Baruah. The selection is noted as having depth across singles and doubles. Once the team event concludes, Sindhu will shift focus to the singles competition and share the singles spotlight with fellow Indian entrant Unnati Hooda.
Sindhu has previous Asian Games experience: at Jakarta 2018 she became the first Indian badminton player to reach an Asian Games singles final, beating world number two Akane Yamaguchi in the semifinal before losing to Tai Tzu-ying in the final. She also won team bronze at Incheon 2014, and her most recent campaign at Hangzhou 2023 ended in the quarter-finals.
The women’s singles final is scheduled for Tuesday, September 29, at 7:30 am. The coverage notes that Sindhu’s progress through each round depends on results in the previous one, so later dates apply only if she keeps winning.
India opens the women’s team event against Kazakhstan in the pre-quarterfinals, with a projected path after that listing Japan in the quarter-final, South Korea in the semi-final and China in the final. The singles event’s opponent will be added when the draw is made.
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Sindhu will begin her campaign on Sunday, September 20, at 6:00 am, when India faces Kazakhstan in the women’s team Round of 16 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. Her singles campaign starts with the Round of 64 on September 25.
