Asian Para Games 2026: Indians in action on October 17 – Full schedule, events and timings

Manasi Joshi will be in action in para badminton on day two of the Asian Para Games. | Photo Credit: KVS GIRI

India will continue its campaign at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games 2026 on Saturday, with athletes competing in para badminton, boccia, para table tennis and blind football.

Pramod Bhagat, Krishna Nagar, Suhas Yathiraj, Nitesh Kumar and Manasi Joshi will be among the leading Indian names in para badminton, with group-stage matches scheduled across singles and doubles categories.

The following is the schedule of Indian athletes in action on October 17, with all timings in Indian Standard Time (IST).

PARA BADMINTON

5:30 AM onwards

Mixed Doubles WH1-WH2 Group C - Alphia James and Prem Kumar Ale vs I-chen Yang and Yu-yu Ong (TPE)

Women’s Singles WH1 Group B - Pallavi Kaluvehalli vs Fan Yang (CHN)

Men’s Singles WH2 Group D - Abu Hubaida vs Reo Oyama (JPN)

Men’s Singles SL4 Group A - Naveen Sivakumar vs Hikmat Ramdani (INA)

Women’s Singles SL3 Group A - Manasi Girishchandra Joshi vs Shino Kawai (JPN)

Women’s Singles SH6 Group A - Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan vs Shuangbao Lin (CHN)

Men’s Singles SH6 Group D - Sivarajan Solaimalai vs Chun Yim Wong (HKG)

Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 Group A - Manisha Ramdass and Pramod Bhagat vs Leani Ratri Oktila and Hikmat Ramdani (INA)

Men’s Singles SL3 Group A - Nitesh Kumar vs Natthapol Chamnanwet (THA)

Men’s Singles SL3 Group B - Pramod Bhagat vs Lichuan Xiong (CHN)

Men’s Singles SL4 Group F - Abhijeet Sakhuja vs Siripong Teamarrom (THA)

Women’s Singles SL4 Group A - Kanak Singh Jadaun vs Zixuan Huang (CHN)

Women’s Singles SL3 Group C - Neeraj vs Zuxian Xiao (CHN)

Women’s Singles SL3 Group B - Qonitah Ikhtiar Syakuroh (INA) vs Sanjana Kumari

Men’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Group C - Suhas Lalikakere and Abhijeet Sakhuja vs Lee Seunghu and Lee Jeongsoo (KOR)

Women’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Group A - Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manasi Joshi vs Liu Yuemei and Li Tongtong (CHN)

Men’s Singles SL4 Group B - Sukant Indukant Kadam vs Kyung Hwan Shin (KOR)

Women’s Singles SU5 Group B - Thulasimathi Murugesan vs Zainab Mohamed (BRN)

Men’s Singles SU5 Group F - Hardik Makkar vs Amyrul Yazid Bin Ahmad Sibi (MAS)

Men’s Singles SL3 Group C - Umesh Vikram Kumar vs Khian Kyle Urbano (PHI)

Women’s Singles SL3 Group C - Mandeep Kaur vs Siti Maisarah B. Mat Lawani (MAS)

Men’s Singles SH6 Group B - Sudarsan Muthuswamy vs Man Kai Chu (HKG)

Men’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Group A - Umesh Vikram Kumar and Rakesh Pandey vs Fredy Setiawan and Hikmat Ramdani (INA)

Men’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Group D - Sukant Indukant Kadam and Pramod Bhagat vs Shin Kyung Hwan and Cho Nadsan (KOR)

Men’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Group B - Surya Kant Yadav and Naveen Sivakumar vs Li Mingpan and Xiong Lichuan (CHN)

Men’s Singles WH1 Group A - Prem Kumar Ale vs Omair Younas (UAE)

Mixed Doubles SH6 Group C - Ruthick Ragupathi and Manasi Joshi vs Li Mingpan and Xiao Zuxian (CHN)

Mixed Doubles SH6 Group A - Krishna Nagar and Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan vs Lin Naili and Li Fengmei (CHN)

Men’s Singles SL4 Group C - Surya Kant Yadav vs Koki Ogawa (JPN)

Men’s Singles SU5 Group C - Ruthick Ragupathi vs Wataru Kanai (JPN)

Women’s Singles SU5 Group A - Manisha Ramdass vs Shanthiya Vishwanathan

Men’s Singles SH6 Group C - Krishna Nagar vs Subhan (INA)

Women’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Group B - Mandeep Kaur and Shantiya Vishwanathan vs Cheng Hefang and Huang Zixuan (CHN)

BOCCIA

Men’s Individual BC3 Pool A - Sachin Chamaria vs Khalifa Ahmad (UAE)

Women’s Individual BC3 Pool A - Anjali Devi vs Yuika Sakai (JPN)

BLIND FOOTBALL

Men Preliminary Round - Japan vs India

PARA TABLE TENNIS

6:00 am: Women’s Singles Class 8 - Savita Ajjanakatti vs Wenjuan Huang (CHN)

6:00 am: Women’s Singles Class 3 - Sonalben Patel vs Yuka Ikeyama (JPN)

6:35 am: Women’s Singles Class 1 - Ekta Bhyan vs Maryam Almyrisl (RSA)

7:10 am: Men’s Singles Class 9 - Dattaprasad Chougule vs Koyo Iwabuchi (JPN)

7:45 am: Men’s Singles Class 3 - Shubham Wadhwa vs Ibrahim Alhassan (KSA)

11:10 am: Women’s Singles Class 4-5 - Bhavina Patel vs Faten Eleimat (JOR)

11:10 am: Women’s Singles Class 9 - Baby Sahana Ravi vs Guiyan Xiong (CHN)

12:20 pm: Women’s Singles Class 3 - Sonalben Patel vs Migyu Lee (KOR)

12:20 pm: Men’s Singles Class 1 - Jehan Madan vs Rakan Alsalmi (KSA)

1:30 pm: Women’s Singles Class 6 - Prachi Pandey vs Xiaowu Liu (CHN)

2:05 pm: Men’s Singles Class 9 - Dattaprasad Chougule vs Marat Surtubayev (KAZ)

3:50 pm: Men’s Singles Class 1 - Sandeep Dangi vs Hyeonuk Kim (KOR)

3:50 pm: Men’s Singles Class 1 - Jehan Madan vs Ardak Nurmagambetov (KAZ)