New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu has been seeded ninth in the upcoming BWF World Championships 2026 to be played at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi from August 17-23, 2026. The 2022 Asian Games gold medallist combination of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have been handed the fifth seeding for the tournament.

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 cha...