Asian Para Games 2026: Indians in action on October 16 – Full schedule, events and timings

Para-badminton stars Pramod Bhagat, Krishna Nagar and Manasi Joshi will be among the Indians competing on Friday, while Bhavina Patel will begin her para-table tennis campaign.

Updated : Oct 15, 2026 18:09 IST , CHENNAI - 3 MINS READ

File Image: Pramod Bhagat will be among the Indian para-badminton players in action on Friday at the Asian Para Games 2026. | Photo Credit: BISWARANJAN ROUT

India will begin its campaign at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games 2026 on Friday, with athletes competing in para badminton, para table tennis and blind football, two days before the opening ceremony in Japan.

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 16, with all timings in Indian Standard Time (IST).

PARA BADMINTON

5:30 AM onwards

Men’s Singles WH2 Group D - Abu Hubaida vs Mai Jianpeng (China)

Men’s Singles WH1 Group A - Prem Kumar Ale vs Agung Widodo (Indonesia)

Mixed Doubles WH1-WH2 Group C - Alphia James/Prem Kumar Ale vs Mai Jianpeng/Yin Menglu (China)

Women’s Singles WH2 Group B - Alphia James vs Liu Yutong (China)

Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 Group A - Manisha Ramdass/Pramod Bhagat vs Xiong Lichuan/Li Tongtong (China)

Men’s Singles SL4 Group F - Abhijeet Sakhuja vs Yeh En-chuan (Chinese Taipei)

Women’s Singles SL3 Group A - Manasi Joshi vs Liu Yuemei (China)

Men’s Singles SH6 Group D - Sivarajan Solaimalai vs John Cyrus Maclang (Philippines)

Men’s Singles SH6 Group C - Krishna Nagar vs Lin Jia-siang (Chinese Taipei)

Men’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Group C - Nitesh Kumar/Ruthick Ragupathi vs Suhas Yathiraj/Abhijeet Sakhuja

Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 Group B - Thulasimathi Murugesan/Nitesh Kumar vs Siripong Teamarrom/Chanida Srinavakul (Thailand)

Mixed Doubles SH6 Group A - Krishna Nagar/Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan vs Nurzammiezatul B. Mohamad/Muhammad Amin Bin Azmi (Malaysia)

Men’s Singles SL4 Group E - Suhas Yathiraj vs Joytu Dhar (Bangladesh)

Women’s Singles SL3 Group C - Mandeep Kaur vs Neeraj

Women’s Singles SL4 Group A - Kanak Singh Jadaun vs Leani Ratri Oktila (Indonesia)

Men’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Group A - Umesh Kumar/Rakesh Pandey vs Yi Yuzhe/Chen Pengfei (China)

Men’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Group C - Suhas Yathiraj/Abhijeet Sakhuja vs Lee Seunghu/Lee Jeongsoo (South Korea)

Mixed Doubles WH1-WH2 Group B - Abu Hubaida/Pallavi Kaluvehalli vs Amnouy Wetwithan/Jehauseng Pohloh (Thailand)

Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 Group C - Ruthick Ragupathi/Manasi Joshi vs Khalimatus Sadiyah/Fredy Setiawan (Indonesia)

Men’s Singles SU5 Group B - Rakesh Pandey vs Mohamad Faris Bin Ahmad Azri (Malaysia)

Men’s Singles SU5 Group F - Hardik Makkar vs Lee Jeongsoo (South Korea)

Women’s Singles SL3 Group B - Sanjana Kumari vs Tsz Huen Zhang (Hong Kong)

Men’s Singles SH6 Group B - Sudarsan Muthusamy vs Lee Daesung (South Korea)

Men’s Doubles WH1-WH2 Group A - Abu Hubaida/Prem Kumar Ale vs Mahdi Almakinah/Essam Buayti (Saudi Arabia)

Men’s Doubles SH6 Group Stage - Krishna Nagar/ Sivarajan Solaimalai vs Chu Man Kai/Wong Chun Yim (Hong Kong)

BLIND FOOTBALL

9 a.m. - Men’s Preliminary Round - India vs Republic of Korea

PARA TABLE TENNIS

7:10 a.m. - Women’s Singles - Class 9 Group B - Baby Sahana Ravi vs Thi Hoa Phuong Nguyen (Vietnam)

7:10 a.m. - Men’s Singles - Class 3 Group D - Shubham Wadhwa vs Keshav Thapa (Nepal)

7:10 a.m. - Women’s Singles - Class 4-5 Group A - Bhavina Patel vs Ahad Al-Rasheedi (Kuwait)

8:20 a.m. - Men’s Singles - Class 1 Group A - Jehan Madan vs Sandeep Dangi