PV Sindhu has been seeded ninth, while Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty received the fifth seed for the BWF World Championships 2026 in New Delhi. Lakshya Sen and the Dhruv Kapila-Tanisha Crasto pair also earned seeded spots. The tournament will be held from August 17-23 at the Indira Gandhi Stadium with 382 players competing across five categories.
New Delhi, Aug 4: Japan Open champion PV Sindhu will be seeded ninth, and the 2022 Asian Games gold medallist duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has been handed the fifth seeding for the upcoming BWF World Championships 2026 to be played at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi from August 17 to 23.
India has two entries in each of the five categories of the championships, with at least one seeded entry in four of them.
Apart from Sindhu and Satwik-Chirag, former World Championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen, seeded 14th in men’s singles, and the mixed doubles pairing of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto are seeded 15th. Sindhu is one of the few players in the Badminton World Championships to win a complete set of medals between 2013 and 2019, winning the gold medal in the 2019 edition at Basel, Switzerland.
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