PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen and Satwik-Chirag Named in India's 10-Member Squad for BWF World Championships 2026 in New Delhi

India is getting a home World Championships in badminton this August, and the squad that has been named to compete at the BWF World Championships 2026 in New Delhi from August 17 to 23 carries a mix of experience and youth that gives the team a genuine shot across multiple categories on home courts.

PV Sindhu leads the women's singles charge as India's host representative under BWF qualification rules, and her record at this tournament is the kind that reminds everyone why she remains the most important name in Indian badminton regardless of whatever else is happening around the sport resulted in gold in 2019, silver in 2017 and 2018, and a consistency at World Championships level that no other Indian player across any category has matched.

As of now India will have Sati Huda and PV Sindhu competing in the women's singles event, while Lakshya Sen and Ayush Shuti will represent the country in the men's singles event. So in men's doubles, the pair of Satwik Sayarash, Rankirindi and Chirag Shetty will compete as India's leading doubles team. As they are currently ranked fourth in the world, they are considered as India's strongest chance of winning a medal at the tournament, making them as the country's top model prospects across all badminton categories.

Essentially in the women's doubles event, India's team will be led by the pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand Pullela, who are among the country's strongest women's doubles players. They will be joined by another Indian pair, Kavipriya Selvam and Simran Singhi. In mixed doubles, India's hopes rest mainly on the pair of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto, while Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde will also represent the country in the same category. In men's doubles, Hariharan Amsakarunan and M. R. Arjun completes India's list of participants, adding another pair to the country's men's doubles contingent.

On the reserve list sit Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy, Kiran George, Tanvi Sharma, Anupama Upadhyaya, Malvika Bansod and Tasnim Mir, all of whom will be watching the qualification picture closely before August.

Sportscape feels that the India hosting the BWF World Championships in New Delhi for the first time in years with Sindhu, Satwik-Chirag and a strong doubles contingent all in the draw is the kind of setup that home crowds dream about, and the pressure and energy that comes with competing in front of a partisan Indian audience at a World Championships is something this squad is going to have to manage as carefully as the actual matchplay itself.