Tanvi Patri and Shaina Manimuthu will lead India’s badminton campaign at the BWF World Junior Championships 2026, with the individual competition set to begin in Cairo, Egypt, on Monday.
The BWF World Junior Championships 2026 badminton matches will be available to watch on live streaming in India.
The individual championships, which will be contested at the Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex for the Eye Level Cups, runs from October 12 to 17. The competition is for junior badminton players under the age of 19.
Asian U-17 champion Tanvi Patri and silver medallist Shaina Manimuthu will headline India’s challenge in the girls’ singles. Parul Choudhary and Tanvi Reddy Andluri will join them.
Tanvi Patri is the seventh seed in the girls’ singles, while fellow Indian badminton player Tanvi Reddy Andluri is seeded 12th.
In the boys’ singles, Dev Ruparelia – the third seed and winner of the India Junior International Grand Prix – will lead the country’s challenge alongside Nishchal Chand, Jagsher Singh Khangurra and Akhil Reddy Bobba.
India will also field two pairs in each of the doubles events.
Aathish Sreenivas PV and Yogansh Singh, along with Pavan Suresh and Punith Suresh, will compete in the boys’ doubles.
In the girls’ doubles, Aanya Bisht-Angel Punera and Diya Bheemaiah-Baruni Parshwal will represent India. Bisht and Punera were also part of the Indian badminton team that won a historic medal at the 2025 edition.
Meanwhile, Divyansh Agrawal-Varna Prabhuanand and Yogansh Singh-Aanya Bisht will spearhead India’s challenge in the mixed doubles.
India’s Tanvi Sharma had won the individual silver medal in the girls’ singles event at the BWF World Junior Championships last year.
Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal, who clinched the girls’ singles crown back in 2008, remains the only Indian shuttler to have won a gold medal at the BWF World Junior Championships.
Where to watch BWF World Junior Championships 2026 live in India
Live streaming of the BWF World Junior Championships 2026 badminton matches will be available on the BWF YouTube channel in India.
Live telecast of the Badminton Junior Championships will not be available on any TV channel in India.
BWF World Junior Championships 2026: Indian badminton team
- Boys’ singles: Nishchal Chand, Dev Ruparelia, Jagsher Singh Khangurra, Akhil Reddy Bobba
- Girls’ singles: Parul Choudhary, Tanvi Reddy Andluri, Shaina Manimuthu, Tanvi Patri
- Boys’ doubles: Aathish Sreenivas PV-Yogansh Singh, Pavan Suresh-Punith Suresh
- Girls’ doubles: Aanya Bisht-Angel Punera, Diya Bheemaiah-Baruni Parshwal
- Mixed doubles: Divyansh Agrawal-Varna Prabhuanand, Yogansh Singh-Aanya Bisht
