The Senior National Badminton Championships 2023 just kick started today on February 22, 2023, learn how to watch the live streaming of the event including, the full schedule, live start times, and more
This year’s edition will mark the 84th edition of India’s highest level of senior national badminton championships.
Senior National Badminton Championships India 2023 schedule, date, time, teams, format, venue, live streaming telecast
Yonex-Sunrise 84th Senior National Badminton Championships will be played at the Balewadi stadium in Pune from February 22 to 28, 2023.#Badminton
— United News of India (@uniindianews) February 21, 2023
Over 450 shuttlers are currently slated to participate at the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Balewadi, Pune.
How to watch live streaming of National Badminton Championships 2023
Fans can watch the live streaming of the National Badminton Championships 2023 on the newly-launched Poona Game app. Besides providing a live stream, the mobile app will also provide daily schedules, match updates, and score updates for fans. Sadly, there will be no live telecast of the National Badminton Championships 2023 on any TV channel in India.
National Badminton Championships 2023 events and teams
This year, the National Badminton Championships 2023 will feature six different events. The six events are:
- Men’s singles
- Women’s singles
- Men’s doubles
- Women’s doubles
- Mixed doubles
- Mixed team championship
The event will feature seven teams in the team championship along with the individual championships.
National Badminton Championships 2019
The most recent edition of the Badminton National Championship took place four years back in February 2019. In that edition, Saina Nehwal defeated PV Sindhu to win the women’s singles crown, while Sourabh Verma emerged as the men’s singles champion.
In the double’s category, Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Chirag Shetty won the men’s doubles title. Meanwhile, Shikha Gautam-Ashwini Bhat K and Manu Attri-K Maneesha won the women’s and mixed doubles titles, respectively. The competition then got cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Badminton Championships 2023
The National Badminton Championships 2023 sees the badminton nationals return to Pune after 26 years. The city in Maharashtra last hosted the national tournament back in 1997.
The tournament will feature prominent player like former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth, Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen and current India No. 1 HS Prannoy. Besides them, Malvika Bansod and Parupalli Kashyap are the other big names in the singles category.
Meanwhile, defending champion Sourabh Verma, former world championships bronze medallist B Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma are also competing. The tournament has 479 registered entries in total, which includes several youngsters like Mithun Manjunath, Kiran George and Priyanshu Rajawat.
Some other notable badminton players include Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly, who were the All England semi-finalists in women’s doubles combination and men’s doubles specialists Chirag Shetty, Dhruv Kapila, Krishna Prasad and Vishnuvardhan Goud.
National Badminton Championships 2023 full schedule and live start time
The inter-state team championships will first take place on the opening two days of the National Badminton Championships 2023. Following which the individual championships will then take place from February 24 onwards.
Given below is the full schedule of the National Badminton Championship 2023 along with the live start time in IST:
| Day | Date | Event | Time |
| February 22 | Wednesday | Mixed team championships | 9:00 AM |
| February 23 | Thursday | Mixed team championships final | 11:00 AM |
| February 24 | Friday | All singles and doubles, round 1 and 2 | 9:00 AM |
| February 25 | Saturday | All singles and doubles, round 3 | 9:00 AM |
| February 26 | Sunday | All singles and doubles, pre-quarterfinals | 9:00 AM |
| February 27 | Monday | All singles and doubles, quarter-finals and semi-finals | 9:00 AM |
| February 28 | Tuesday | All singles and doubles, finals | 11:00 AM |