Chris and Gabby Adcock will bid to become the first British mixed doubles pair to win the YONEX All England title for over 10 years.
Home-grown winners have not taken the title since Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms triumphed and the Adcocks have avoided the men’s and women’s doubles to concentrate solely on this competition at Birmingham, starting on March 3.
Chinese pair Nan Zhang and Yunlei Zhao, the mixed doubles world champions, are top seeds, with Denmark’s Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen seeded to meet them in the final.
Olympic champion Lin Dan will also make the trip to the Midlands as he attempts to capture his sixth men’s singles title at the sport’s oldest and most prestigious event.
But he will need to negotiate a field that includes China's world champion Chen Long and Jan O Jorgensen, of Denmark, the current European champion.
In the women’s singles, China’s Li Xuerui has been seeded top to regain the first and only title she won back in 2012.
European hopes in the women’s singles will rest on the shoulders of Spain’s Carolina Marin, who clinched her first world title in Copenhagen last year and is seeded sixth.
Britain’s other non-seeded hopes will be known when the main draw is published on Tuesday.
In the men’s doubles, English pair Andrew Ellis and Peter Mills are second seeds in the main qualifying draw.
