Indonesia's women get going
Indonesia's women's campaign at the XX Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 began on Tuesday 29 September with a near-perfect performance. Seventh seeds Fadona Kusumawati and Fitriani Sabatini dropped just one game against Kuwait's Mariam Alsarraj and Dalal Alqenaei, winning 6-1 6-0 in the round of 16.
The result sent the Indonesians into a quarter-final against the tournament's top seeds and home favourites, Chifumi Sato and Kotomi Ozawa.
Women's event
Japan's top seeds made their own winning start in the round of 16, beating Qatar's Alya Murad and Maha Faramarzi 6-1 6-4. Ozawa told the FIP she could see family, friends and Japanese flags in the crowd during the match.
The first round was also completed on Day 2, and it produced the most moving story of the day. Thailand's Natalie Narkprasert and Dares Srirungreang beat Kuwait's Noor Hasan and Zenab Sarkhoo 7-5 6-3. For Narkprasert, the win came after a year out following a complete tear of her ACL and meniscus. She told the FIP she had to learn to walk again after a doctor said she would never play sport again.
Iran's Sahabeh Fard and Zahra Kahrizi beat Qatar's Dana Al-Mudahka and Hanan Al-Abdulrahman 6-0 6-2 to set up a round-of-16 match against Indonesia's Novela Putria and Beatrice Gumulya. The Philippines' Tao Tan and Marian Capadocia beat Kazakhstan's Mariya Sinitsyna and Albina Khabibulina 6-3 2-6 6-2, and the United Arab Emirates' Fatma Janahi and Aishah Alawadhi beat Lebanon's Lilya Messaike and Maria Breidy 6-3 7-6(4).
Men's event
The men's round of 16 got under way with two matches. Japan's Kazuki Tomita and Nasa Hatakeyama beat Thailand's Arnav Rawal and Stefano Mocciola 6-4 6-2, giving the host nation a second men's pair in the quarter-finals.
Second seeds Farsad Shahi and Amirmohammad Jamshidi of Iran beat Kuwait's Abdulrahman Alawadhi and Hussain Shams 6-4 6-3, setting up a quarter-final against Tomita and Hatakeyama.
Day 2 results
Women's round of 32: Narkprasert/Srirungreang (THA) bt Hasan/Sarkhoo (KUW) 7-5 6-3; Fard/Kahrizi (IRI) bt Al-Mudahka/Al-Abdulrahman (QAT) 6-0 6-2; Tan/Capadocia (PHI) bt Sinitsyna/Khabibulina (KAZ) 6-3 2-6 6-2; Janahi/Alawadhi (UAE) bt Messaike/Breidy (LBN) 6-3 7-6(4).
Women's round of 16: Sato/Ozawa (JPN) bt Murad/Faramarzi (QAT) 6-1 6-4; Kusumawati/Sabatini (INA) bt Alsarraj/Alqenaei (KUW) 6-1 6-0.
Men's round of 16: Tomita/Hatakeyama (JPN) bt Rawal/Mocciola (THA) 6-4 6-2; Shahi/Jamshidi (IRI) bt Alawadhi/Shams (KUW) 6-4 6-3.
Up next
Day 3 on Wednesday 30 September features the remaining twelve round-of-16 matches, six in each event, from 10am local time. Putria and Gumulya face Iran's Fard and Kahrizi, while Valentinus Dyas and Armando Soemarno take on Japan's Teruaki Ando and Shinnosuke Nakamura.
