BPS State Badminton Ranking Tournament 2026

Karan Dhavaskar’s tournament began with two matches in 82 minutes on Friday evening: a straight-games men’s singles win over Mohammad Nadaf, followed by a mixed-doubles loss with his partner against sixth-seeded Rudra Phadte and Shivanjali Thite. He recovered quickly, beating Sandip Kanji 15-7, 15-4 in just 12 minutes to finish his singles qualifying run at 2-1, but the main-draw singles campaign ended the next day against fifth-seeded Ayaan Shaikh after 35 minutes.

His men’s doubles route with his unnamed partner opened on Saturday with a 31-23 win over Kewal Sawant and Manav Shetgaonkar. Later, the pair pushed third seeds Arjun Rehani and Ayaan Shaikh to a deciding game, taking the first 15-11 before falling 16-14, 15-13. That 33-minute match was the tournament’s longest for Dhavaskar, and the deciding-game defeat ended the event.

Across six completed matches, Dhavaskar spent 148 minutes on court and finished with three wins and three losses. His biggest challenge came in men’s doubles, where the pair’s second-round contest was his only decider. The schedule also demanded range: his shortest rest gap was 43 minutes, while the average was 64.5 minutes.

One less obvious pattern appears in his singles: he won 40 of 65 points at game starts, but his overall first-game record was much stronger than his last-game record, 90 of 170 versus 83 of 147. In doubles, meanwhile, his side won more receive points than serve points in both events. Dhavaskar leaves Navelim with one qualifying singles run, one men’s-doubles win, and a mixed-doubles opening-round campaign.