New Delhi [India], June 12 (ANI): Two-time Olympic medallist and former world champion PV Sindhu will spearhead a 10-member Indian contingent on the BWF World Championships 2026 in New Delhi, scheduled from August 17 to 23, based on Olympics.com.
Sindhu, who gained the world badminton title in 2019 and claimed silver medals in 2017 and 2018, earned her spot within the girls’s singles as India’s host consultant underneath Badminton World Federation (BWF) qualification guidelines. The closing checklist, primarily based on world rankings as of April 28, contains 64 gamers every in males’s and girls’s singles and 48 pairs in each doubles self-discipline.
India will subject two direct entrants in every class. In males’s singles, Lakshya Sen and Ayush Shetty certified, whereas Sindhu might be joined by rising expertise Unnati Hooda in girls’s singles. India’s top-ranked entry is the lads’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who certified fourth total, with Hariharan Amsakarunan and MR Arjun taking the second males’s doubles spot.
In girls’s doubles, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, ranked thirtieth, lead India’s problem alongside Kavipriya Selvam and Simran Singhi. In combined doubles, Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto certified twenty first, whereas Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde claimed the second Indian spot. Several Indian shuttlers, together with world championship medallists Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy, function on reserve lists.
The BWF confirmed that defending champions in all 5 occasions will take part. Shi Yu Qi of China (males’s singles), Kim Won Ho and Seo Seung Jae of Korea (males’s doubles), Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning of China (girls’s doubles), Akane Yamaguchi of Japan (girls’s singles), and Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei of Malaysia (combined doubles) have all certified as top-ranked entrants.
Under BWF rules, member associations can enter as much as 4 gamers or pairs if all are ranked on the planet’s high eight, three if within the high 24, and two if throughout the high 150 on the eligibility date. The match draw might be introduced nearer to the beginning of the championships.
BWF World Championships 2026 Indian squad
Men’s singles: Lakshya Sen, Ayush Shetty.Women’s singles: PV Sindhu, Unnati Hooda.Men’s doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy / Chirag Shetty, Hariharan Amsakarunan / MR Arjun.Women’s doubles: Treesa Jolly / Gayatri Gopichand Pullela, Kavipriya Selvam / Simran Singhi.Mixed doubles: Dhruv Kapila / Tanisha Crasto, Rohan Kapoor / Ruthvika Shivani Gadde.
India reserves
Men’s singles: Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy, Tharun Mannepalli, Kiran George, Mithun Manjunath.Women’s singles: Tanvi Sharma, Isharani Baruah, Devika Sihag, Rakshitha Sree Ramraj, Anmol Kharb, Anupama Upadhyaya, Malvika. Bansod, Tanya Hemanth, Tasnim Mir, Shriyanshi Valishetty.Women’s doubles: Priya Konjengbam/Shruti Mishra, Ashwini Bhat Okay./Shikha Gautam, Rutaparna Panda/Swetaparna Panda.Mixed doubles: Ashith Surya/Amrutha Pramuthesh, Dhruv Rawat/Maneesha Okay., Mohit Jaglan/Lakshita Jaglan. (ANI)