India’s top shuttlers – PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen and the men’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty–Satwiksairaj Rankireddy – will return to action for the Japan Open 2025 badminton tournament starting Tuesday.
Badminton matches from the Japan Open 2025, a BWF Super 750 tournament, will be available to watch on live streaming and telecast in India.
Sindhu, Lakshya and the Sat-Chi duo were last seen at the Indonesia Open in early June. All three skipped the subsequent US Open and Canada Open.
Sindhu, a two-time Olympic medallist, has had a challenging 2025 BWF World Tour season.
The double Olympic medallist’s best showing on the BWF World Tour this year came at the India Open in January, where she reached the quarter-finals. Since then, she endured four consecutive first-round exits before logging successive Round of 16 finishes at the Singapore and Indonesia Opens.
Lakshya, who finished fourth at the Olympics in Paris 2024, has also struggled for consistency with five first-round exits. His best finish this year is a quarter-final run at the All England Open.
The 23-year-old Indian badminton player was forced to retire at the Singapore Open in June with a back injury.
Satwiksairaj and Chirag, the reigning Asian Games champions, have reached three semi-finals on the BWF Tour this year and made the quarter-finals at the Indonesia Open. However, they are still searching for their first title of the season.
Notably, US Open champion Ayush Shetty and former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth, finalist at the Malaysia Masters in May, are not part of India’s Japan Open line-up.
Meanwhile, there are no Indian entries in the mixed doubles draw.
Where to watch Japan Open badminton 2025 live in India
Live streaming of the Japan Open 2025 badminton matches will be available on JioHotstar. Live telecast of Japan Open badminton will be available on Star Sports 3, Star Sports Select 1 and Sports 18 Network TV channels in India.
Japan Open 2025: India badminton squad
- Men’s singles: Lakshya Sen
- Women’s singles: PV Sindhu, Unnati Hooda, Anupama Upadhyaya, Rakshitha Ramraj
- Men’s doubles: Chirag Shetty-Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Hariharan Amsakarunan-Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi
- Women’s doubles: Rutaparna Panda-Swetaparna Panda, Kavipriya Selvam-Simran Singhi
