Total BWF World Championship National shuttlers selected, to vie for titles in Glasgow
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 17 2017:
One of badminton's most prestigious com-petitions gets under way next week, giving the sport's top players the opportunity to land a major title before the BWF World Superseries re-starts in September .
A 33-team National team, including 21 players, have been selected to fight for top honour at the Total BWF World Championship 2017 that is scheduled to be held from August 21 to 27 at Glasgow, Scotland, according to a statement from the Badminton Association of India .
The team include 10 male players, 11 female, 7 coaches, one manager and a four-member support staff, mentioned the statement.
The Total BWF World Championships is an individual tournament comprising five events � men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles .
Meanwhile, Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu and World No.8 Kidambi Srikanth have been given the fourth and eighth seedings respectively in the BWF World Badminton Championship.
In men's singles, Srikanth, who has been in rampaging form with back-to-back titles at Indonesia and Australia, is seeded eighth, just below two-time Olympic champion and five-time World Champion Lin Dan of China .
Among other Indians in the fray, Ajay Jayaram and B.Sai Praneeth have been seeded 13th and 15th respectively, while World No.28 Sameer Verma will begin his campaign as an unseeded player .
In the mixed doubles category, Pranav Jerry Chopra and Sikki Reddy, who clinched the Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold in January this year, have been seeded 15th.