BPS State Badminton Ranking Tournament 2026

Ayaan Shaikh’s tournament began with two wins on 8 Aug 2026: a 17-minute Men’s Doubles sweep, then a 35-minute Men’s Singles victory over Karan Dhavaskar. The day’s schedule quickly became demanding. After 37 minutes in Mixed Doubles against the No. 7 pair Mohammad Nadaf and Riya Haldankar, Shaikh and his partner won a deciding game 15–8. Thirty-three minutes later, he and his Men’s Doubles partner also edged the No. 8 pair Karan Dhavaskar and Soham Naik in another decider, 15–13.

The biggest scalp came in that Mixed Doubles second round, but Shaikh’s Singles campaign ended later that evening against No. 3 seed Soham Naik. He won the opener 16–14, lost the second 13–15 and fell 11–15 in the decider. Across the tournament, Singles took 79 minutes, with one win and one loss; he won 72 points and conceded 68.

On 9 Aug 2026, the Mixed Doubles pair lost in straight games to the No. 3 pair Shaheen C K and Dimple Revankar, 12–15, 13–15. Shaikh’s Men’s Doubles run then ended against the No. 2 pair Aswin Mannambalath and Shaheen C K, after a 16–14 second-game win could not prevent a 15–11 deciding-game loss. That left him with two Men’s Doubles wins and one loss, and 83 minutes on court in the event.

Across seven completed matches, Shaikh finished 4–3 and spent 225 minutes on court. One telling pattern sits beneath the results: he won 140 of 231 receiving rallies, compared with 109 of 246 serving rallies. His campaign repeatedly leaned on receiving points, even as the final scoreboard across all events remained close at 249–228.