Top 25 seeds
| Rank | Name | Flags | Fed. | M/F | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM Gupta, Abhijeet | IND | M | 2626 | |
| 2 | GM Sandipan, Chanda | IND | M | 2593 | |
| 3 | GM Lalith Babu | IND | M | 2586 | |
| 4 | GM Werle, Jan | NED | M | 2555 | |
| 5 | GM Shyam, Sundar M. | IND | M | 2552 | |
| 6 | GM Ernst, Sipke | NED | M | 2540 | |
| 7 | GM Debashis, Das | IND | M | 2478 | |
| 8 | IM Rathnakaran, K. | IND | M | 2469 | |
| 9 | IM Ten Hertog, Hugo | NED | M | 2468 | |
| 10 | GM Romanishin, Oleg | UKR | M | 2456 | |
| 11 | IM Bellia, Fabrizio | ITA | M | 2447 | |
| 12 | IM Thejkumar, M. S. | IND | M | 2445 | |
| 13 | GM Sundararajan, Kidambi | IND | M | 2439 | |
| 14 | WGM Karavade, Eesha | IND | F | 2421 | |
| 15 | GM Jonkman, Harmen | NED | M | 2413 | |
| 16 | IM Nitin, S. | IND | M | 2410 | |
| 17 | FM Beerdsen, Thomas | NED | M | 2404 | |
| 18 | IM Valdes Romero, Leonardo | CRC | M | 2391 | |
| 19 | FM Vereggen, Lars | NED | M | 2380 | |
| 20 | Hemant, Sharma | IND | M | 2367 | |
| 21 | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | M | 2363 | |
| 22 | IM Kerigan, Demre | TUR | M | 2362 | |
| 23 | Van Foreest, Lucas | NED | M | 2350 | |
| 24 | IM Slingerland, Fred | NED | M | 2344 | |
| 25 | IM De Jong, Migchiel | NED | M | 2330 |