PV Sindhu to start Asian Games 2026 on September 20 in Aichi-Nagoya

PV Sindhu will begin her Asian Games 2026 campaign on September 20 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, starting in the women’s team competition before moving into the individual singles draw. The Indian shuttler’s singles campaign is scheduled to follow the team event and includes another Indian entrant, Unnati Hooda.

Sindhu is named in a nine-player Indian women’s squad that also includes Unnati Hooda, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand, Kavipriya Selvam, Simran Singhi, Tanisha Crasto, Tanvi Sharma, Devika Sihag and Isharani Baruah, a group described in the source as having depth across singles and doubles. After the team matches conclude she will turn her attention to the women’s singles; exact progression through rounds will depend on match results in each preceding round.

The Indian women’s team opens its Aichi-Nagoya programme on September 20, and the team competition is scheduled to run through September 24. India’s first match in the team event is a Round of 16 tie for which the opponent is listed only as the Round of 16 opponent in source material; team results during this span will determine how long players remain involved in that phase.

Sindhu’s individual schedule begins once the team event finishes, with her singles campaign set to start on September 25 at 6:00 a.m. in the Round of 64. The singles draw will include Unnati Hooda as a fellow Indian entrant in the women’s singles, and any subsequent dates listed for later rounds will apply only if Sindhu advances.

Sindhu’s previous Asian Games record is noted in the source: she won the silver medal in women’s singles at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, beating Akane Yamaguchi in the semifinal before losing the final to Tai Tzu-ying. At Incheon 2014 she was part of the Indian women’s team that took bronze and exited the singles in the round of 16, and at the Hangzhou edition in 2023 her singles campaign ended at the quarterfinal stage.

She will next appear for India on September 20 at 6:00 a.m., when the Indian women’s team faces its Round of 16 opponent in Aichi-Nagoya as the opening fixture of her Asian Games 2026 campaign.