← News & updatesEvent · Aug 3, 2026

No India stream confirmed for Da Nang — our how-to-watch page is live

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With 27 days to the Pickleball World Cup, there is still no answer to the question Indian fans are asking most: where do you actually watch it? We have published a page that tracks every route and, more usefully, says plainly what is not confirmed.

What is settled: FPT Play is a co-organiser of the Cup and its exclusive broadcaster. That sounds like good news until you check the geography — FPT Play is a Vietnamese service and is geo-blocked outside Vietnam, so it is not a route from India. Global distribution sits with Pickleball Inc., which took exclusive media rights in a deal announced on July 22, but that announcement named no platform at all.

The likeliest route is the organisers' own YouTube channel, which streamed the last two editions free and in full — a seven-hour broadcast for the 2025 Cup. Nothing has been scheduled for Da Nang, so we are calling that precedent rather than a promise. No Indian broadcaster or OTT has announced anything.

The page also carries the thing that needs no announcement: Da Nang runs 1.5 hours ahead of IST, so a 9:00 am start is 7:30 am in India and the entire competition day lands inside the Indian morning and afternoon. Alongside it, our live scores board is now open and will carry session-by-session results through the week.

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