Syed Modi India International Super 300: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Lucknow)

Six days of shuttles in Gomti Nagar

The 2026 edition runs Tuesday, November 24, to Sunday, November 29. It sits on the BWF World Tour at Super 300 level. That is the tier just below the Super 500s, and it pulls a field from across Asia: China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan alongside a deep Indian contingent.

The tournament carries the name of Syed Modi. He was an eight-time Indian national singles champion and was shot dead in Lucknow in 1988. For years it has been staged at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium in Gomti Nagar, the city’s newer eastern district of wide roads and government buildings.

How the week plays out

Five events share the draw:

• Men’s singles
• Women’s singles
• Men’s doubles
• Women’s doubles
• Mixed doubles

The early days are the busiest on court. Several matches run side by side, so one seat can cover two or three rallies at once. The field narrows through the week to quarter-finals and semi-finals. Sunday is finals day, with one court, one match at a time and the hall’s full attention on it.

Fans after volume of play usually go midweek, when the most players are still in the draw. Fans after atmosphere go at the weekend. The organiser, the Badminton Association of India, publishes the order of play, the venue and ticket links on its official site.

Courtside manners in an Indian hall

Indian badminton crowds are loud, and they get louder whenever an Indian player wins a long rally. The rules underneath the noise are strict, though.

• Silence while the shuttle is in play; cheer once the point ends.
• Stay in your seat during rallies. People move between points or at the change of ends.
• No flash photography. A flash can put a player off a smash, and the umpire will stop play.
• UPI payments by QR code work almost everywhere in Lucknow, from stadium snack counters to auto-rickshaws.

Spectators usually get to the stadium by app cab or auto-rickshaw. Evening traffic across the Gomti river bridges is heavy, so locals tend to allow extra time for any trip between Gomti Nagar and the old city. Late-November evenings get cool and are often hazy, so many people bring a light layer for the ride back.

Lucknow beyond the baseline

Morning sessions leave the evenings free, and Lucknow repays them. Ambedkar Memorial Park, a vast plaza of red sandstone, is in Gomti Nagar itself. You can easily see it before or after a session.

The old city is about half an hour west:

• Bara Imambara and Rumi Darwaza: 18th-century Nawabi architecture, including the Bhool Bhulaiya maze inside the Imambara.
• Tunday Kababi, Aminabad: the original branch, known for the minced galouti kebab that melts on the tongue.
• Hazratganj: the colonial-era shopping street, good for an evening walk and chikankari embroidery shops.

Travellers usually fly into Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (LKO) or take the train to Charbagh station. Gomti Nagar hotels are the obvious base for anyone mainly there for the badminton.