Asian Games Schedule Chaos Ends Miyazaki's Badminton Run

Japan’s top badminton player Miyazaki Tomoka, 20, exited the women’s singles Round of 16 at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games after a match-management fiasco. According to reports citing a Sept. 27 Korean-time article, Miyazaki only stepped on court after midnight, waiting long enough to be delayed repeatedly as earlier matches ran long. She beat Mongolia’s Sarangua Khurelbaatar 2-0 in the Round of 32, but lost 0-2 (9-21, 13-21) to India’s Pusala Sindhu, starting at 12:08 a.m. on Sept. 27. The tournament’s “collapsed” schedule drew criticism, including from Indian journalist Vinayak, amid an almost empty home crowd and other players’ complaints about fatigue.