World Championship: Sindhu, Srikanth get top 10 seedings

PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth have been given the fourth and eighth seedings respectively in the BWF World Badminton Championship, which will get underway in Glasgow on August 21. Two-time bronze medallist at World Championships in 2013 and 2014 editions, Sindhu was just below two-time winner and Olympic champion Carolina Marin. World No. 16 Saina Nehwal, who clinched the silver medal at the 2015 World Championship, has been seeded 12th for the tournament. With World No. 1 Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei withdrawing from the tournament, Japan's Akane Yamaguchi, Korea's Sung Ji Hyun were named as the top and second seeds respectively.