BPS State Badminton Ranking Tournament 2026

Aditi Chodankar’s tournament lasted 16 minutes, beginning with a 15–12 first-game loss to Gauri Sawant and ending with a 15–8 second-game defeat in the women’s singles opening round at the BPS State Badminton Ranking Tournament 2026 in Navelim. The fourth seed entered the scheduled 6:00 pm match at 6:18 pm and the score was recorded at 6:34 pm.

Chodankar won 20 points across the match, compared with Sawant’s 30. Her strongest area was receiving: she won 15 of 30 receive points, while taking 5 of 20 points on her own serve. She never led by more than one point and did not overcome a deficit, while Sawant’s longest run reached seven points against a best streak of three for Chodankar.

The rally detail shows a split that is easy to miss in the scoreline. Chodankar won 10 of 25 short rallies and exactly 10 of 25 long rallies, so the difference was not simply endurance in extended exchanges. She also improved after intervals, winning five of nine points afterward compared with two of nine before them. The opening game was closer in the rally count, 12 points won from 27, before her return fell to eight from 23 in the final game.

With no second event, bye or walkover in the dossier, the loss to Sawant was the complete extent of Chodankar’s campaign. It ended after two games, but the match record leaves a clear pattern: receiving supplied most of her points, while serving and the late-game phase proved harder to turn into a sustained run.