New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- Japan Open champion PV Sindhu will be seeded ninth, and the 2022 Asian Games gold medallist combination of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy has been handed the fifth seeding for the upcoming BWF World Championships to be played at the Indira Gandhi Stadium here from August 17-23, 2026.

India has two entries each in all the 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, seeded 14th in men's singles and the mixed doubles pairing of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto are seeded 15th.

While the players qualified for the prestigious championships based on their world rankings of April 2...