BPS State Badminton Ranking Tournament 2026

Kapil Kanji’s tournament lasted 21 minutes, but his only match was decided by margins that stayed close until the finish. In the men’s doubles opening round at the BPS State Badminton Ranking Tournament 2026, Kanji’s pair lost 15–13, 15–9 to fifth seeds Advait Balakrishnan and Ashmeet Parsekar on 8 Aug at Navelim.

The match began at 3:37 pm, seven minutes after its scheduled start, and ended at 3:58 pm. With no second event or further match in the dossier, that first-round contest was Kanji’s complete tournament campaign. His side scored 22 points to the opponents’ 30, without reaching a decider.

The rally detail shows a useful split: Kanji’s side won 13 of 29 points on receive, compared with nine of 23 on serve. The strongest pattern came after the interval, where the pair won five of nine recorded rallies, following just one of nine before it. That improvement could not overturn the deficit, but it made the second half of the match more competitive than the first.

The opening game was the closer one, with 13 points won by Kanji’s side against 15. Across the covered rallies, the pair’s longest run was four points, while the opponents’ longest streak reached five. There was also a 102-second gap early in the first game, before the score had moved from 0–0, according to the timing record. Kanji and his partner finish the tournament with one doubles loss, 22 points scored and a short campaign against the fifth seeds.