Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 06:50am on 27 Sep 2026,Sunday Sports
India’s badminton campaign at the Asian Games 2026 ended on Sunday after PV Sindhu and Unnati Hooda lost their women’s singles quarter-finals in three games. Sindhu went down 11-21, 21-18, 21-10 to China’s Chen Yufei, while 19-year-old Hooda lost 21-16, 14-21, 21-17 to Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi. Earlier, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand lost their women’s doubles quarter-final to Malaysia’s Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan. Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto also exited the mixed doubles quarter-finals. India finished the individual badminton events without a medal, with the men’s team bronze remaining its only medal. (PC: Olympics)
