BPS State Badminton Ranking Tournament 2026

Nidhi Nair’s tournament began and ended on the same evening, across two doubles events and 31 minutes on court. In mixed doubles, Nair’s side lost 15–9, 15–8 to the fifth-seeded Aswin Mannambalath and Rifa Shaikh after starting at 6:07 pm on 7 Aug 2026. The pair collected 17 points but could not turn either game into a decider.

There was an 84-minute gap before Nair returned for women’s doubles. That match began at 7:43 pm, despite its scheduled time of 7:55 pm, and ended 19 minutes later in a 15–7, 15–3 loss to second seeds Anjana Kumari and Sufiya Shaikh. Nair’s women’s doubles side scored 10 points.

Across both matches, Nair’s side won 27 points against 60, with no games won and no deciders played. The rally detail shows a notable split: 16 of 59 points won on receive, compared with 11 of 28 on serve. After intervals, the side won 7 of 18 recorded rallies, up from 2 of 18 before them, but the stronger second-half pattern did not erase slow starts, with only 5 of 20 opening-game points won overall.

The campaign’s clearest individual event came in mixed doubles, where Nair’s side took 17 points against the fifth seeds and won 10 of 18 serve rallies. In women’s doubles, the second-seeded opposition held the score more firmly, and the tournament ended in round one of both events.