BPS State Badminton Ranking Tournament 2026

Pallab Samanta’s tournament lasted 26 minutes across two qualifying matches on 7 August, with both events ending in straight-game defeats at Navelim. He began in men’s singles against Rutav Kanabar at 6:09 pm, taking seven points in an 11-minute, 3-15, 4-15 loss. Fifty-six minutes later, he returned for men’s doubles alongside an unnamed partner against Devansh Sakpal and Yousuf Shaikh, losing 4-15, 8-15 after 15 minutes.

The doubles match was the more productive of the two by the scoreboard, yielding 12 points compared with seven in singles. Across both matches, Samanta won 19 points and lost 60, and the available rally record credits his side with 16 receive points from 60 attempts, compared with three from 19 on serve. That receive-heavy split is the clearest pattern in the dossier, though the doubles figures belong to the pair rather than Samanta alone.

The match pacing also changed between events. In singles, Samanta won four of nine rallies before the interval but none of the nine after it. In doubles, the pair improved after the interval, winning four of nine compared with two beforehand. Overall, the side won six of 18 rallies before intervals and four of 18 after them, while never winning more than two consecutive rallies and facing a longest losing streak of eight.

Neither qualifying campaign went beyond round one, and there was no decider, walkover or retirement. Samanta’s tournament therefore closes with two completed matches, two losses and a 56-minute gap between appearances.