PV Sindhu seeded ninth for BWF World Championships in Hyderabad

Japan Open champion PV Sindhu will be seeded ninth and the 2022 Asian Games gold medal-winning combination of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has been handed the fifth seeding for the upcoming BWF World Championships to be played at the Indira Gandhi Stadium here from August 17 to 23, 2026.

India has two entries each in all five categories of the championships, with at least one seeded entry in four of the five



categories.

Apart from Sindhu and Satwik-Chirag, former World Championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen is seeded 14th in men’s singles, while the mixed doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto are seeded 15th.

While the players qualified for the prestigious championships based on their world rankings as of April 28, 2026, the seedings were decided on the basis of the world rankings as of July 28, 2026.