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Hylo Open 2026: Sindhu and Lakshya Sen lead Indian challenge

P.V. Sindhu and Lakshya Sen head India's entries at the BWF World Tour Super 500 in Saarbrücken from October 27 to November 1, 2026.

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Sportstar reports that P.V. Sindhu and Lakshya Sen will headline India's campaign at the Hylo Open 2026. The tournament runs from October 27 to November 1 at Saarlandhalle with USD 500,000 prize money.

Key takeaways

  • P.V. Sindhu and Lakshya Sen lead India's challenge at the Hylo Open 2026
  • The tournament runs from October 27 to November 1 at Saarlandhalle, Saarbrücken
  • Total prize money is USD 500,000 with USD 35,625 for each singles champion in 2025
  • Sindhu is seeded second while Lakshya Sen is seeded seventh in men's singles
  • Ashmita Chaliha, Ayush Shetty and Unnati Hooda are also in the Indian entries

P.V. Sindhu and Lakshya Sen will headline India’s campaign at the Hylo Open 2026, a BWF World Tour Super 500 running from October 27 to November 1 at the Saarlandhalle in Saarbrücken, Germany, Sportstar reported. Total prize money is USD 500,000, up from USD 475,000 last year, and each singles champion in 2025 earned USD 35,625. The tournament was raised back to Super 500 status for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.

Entries and seeds

The men’s singles field includes Ayush Shetty, Tharun Mannepalli, HS Prannoy, Kiran George, Lakshya Sen and Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian in qualifying. The women’s singles field includes Devika Sihag, Aakarshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod, Isharani Baruah, Unnati Hooda, Anmol Kharb, Ashmita Chaliha, P.V. Sindhu and Meghana in qualifying. Anders Antonsen is the top seed in men’s singles, followed by Christo Popov, Alex Lanier, Jonatan Christie, Kodai Naraoka and Toma Junior Popov. Lakshya Sen is seeded seventh and Ayush Shetty eighth. Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong heads the women’s singles entry list as the top seed, with Sindhu seeded second and Mia Blichfeldt fourth. Blichfeldt won the Hylo Open in both 2024 and 2025.

Recent form

Sindhu arrives after a runner-up finish at the French Open Super 750, where she took the opening game against world No. 1 An Se Young before losing the final 16-21, 21-11, 21-12. It was only the second time in 11 meetings that Sindhu won a game off the Korean, who has now won 50 matches in a row. Sindhu, ranked 11th, had beaten Japan’s Hina Akechi in the semifinals and won the Japan Open title in July. She missed the 2025 Hylo Open while recovering from a foot injury.

Ashmita Chaliha, ranked 36th, produced the biggest win of her career at the French Open by beating three-time world champion and world No. 2 Akane Yamaguchi 21-19, 21-18 in 37 minutes. Yamaguchi had beaten her in straight games at the Denmark Open the week before. Ashmita lost to Nozomi Okuhara in the quarterfinals and won her maiden World Tour title at the Korea Masters Super 300 earlier this year.

Lakshya Sen withdrew from his French Open first-round match on medical grounds, ending his week in Paris before it began. The Commonwealth Games champion gets another opportunity in Saarbrücken to put a difficult run of results behind him. Ayush Shetty beat compatriot Kidambi Srikanth in the opening round in Paris but retired hurt against Naraoka while trailing 17-21, 6-11. Naraoka is also in the field here as the fifth seed. Unnati Hooda reached the semifinals here last year.

What happens next

India’s campaign begins at the Saarlandhalle when the main draw starts on October 27, 2026. More withdrawals are possible before and during the tournament, Sportstar noted.

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