The Hylo Open, a BWF World Tour Super 500, runs from October 27 to November 1 at the Saarlandhalle in Saarbrücken, Germany, with total prize money of USD 500,000. The tournament was raised back to Super 500 status for the 2025 and 2026 seasons, and last year’s purse was USD 475,000. Each singles champion in 2025 earned USD 35,625.Jonatan Christie and Mia Blichfeldt won the singles titles last year. Anders Antonsen is the top seed in the men’s singles, followed by Christo Popov, Alex Lanier, Christie, Kodai Naraoka and Toma Junior Popov. Lakshya Sen is seeded seventh and Ayush Shetty eighth.Sindhu looks to bounce backP.V. Sindhu arrives in Germany after a runner-up finish at the French Open Super 750. She took the opening game against world No. 1 An Se Young but lost the final 16-21, 21-11, 21-12. It was only the second time in 11 meetings that Sindhu had 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. She won the Japan Open title in July. Sindhu missed the 2025 Hylo Open as she recovered from a foot injury.Ashmita rides a career-best winAshmita Chaliha, 27 and 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. She won her maiden World Tour title at the Korea Masters Super 300 earlier this year.Lakshya gets another chanceLakshya Sen withdrew from his French Open first-round match on medical grounds, which ended his week in Paris before it began. The Commonwealth Games champion is seeded seventh in Saarbrücken and gets another opportunity to put a difficult run of results behind him.Ayush’s fitness in focusAyush Shetty beat compatriot Kidambi Srikanth in the opening round in Paris but retired hurt against Naraoka while trailing 17-21, 6-11. The eighth seed will be watched closely, and Naraoka is also in the field here as the fifth seed.Rest of the Indian line-upMen’s singles: Ayush Shetty, Tharun Mannepalli, HS Prannoy, Kiran George, Lakshya Sen, Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian (qualifying)Women’s singles: Devika Sihag, Aakarshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod, Isharani Baruah, Unnati Hooda, Anmol Kharb, Ashmita Chaliha, P.V. Sindhu, Meghana (qualifying)Men’s doubles: Achutaditya/Arjun (qualifying)Unnati Hooda reached the semifinals here last year and will want to build on that.This is the list of Indian entries at the time of writing. More withdrawals are possible before and during the tournament.
