BPS State Badminton Ranking Tournament 2026

Riya Haldankar’s tournament began with a mixed-doubles win over Avdhut Saptoji and Nysa Dhupdale on 7 Aug, a 26-minute straight-games result recorded after play began at 7:05 pm. The next evening, Haldankar and partner faced the No. 2 pair Ayaan Shaikh and Yasmin Sayed. They took the second game 15–13 but lost the deciding game 15–8 after 37 minutes.

Women’s doubles followed a different path. Haldankar’s first-round match was a walkover win over Adhira Jadhav and Elena Fernandes, so it added no court time or rally data. On 9 Aug, Haldankar and partner then defeated the No. 5 pair Anar Singbal and Neha Sahakari 15–12, 18–16 in 26 minutes—the campaign’s biggest scalp. Their run ended in the next round against the No. 2 pair Anjana Kumari and Sufiya Shaikh, despite taking the second game 15–12; the deciding game went 15–7.

Across four played matches, Haldankar spent 119 minutes on court and finished with two wins and two losses, plus the women’s-doubles walkover. The split was revealing: mixed doubles lasted 63 minutes, while women’s doubles took 56, even though the women’s-doubles campaign advanced one round further.

The rally pattern offers another useful detail. Haldankar won 79 of 140 receiving rallies, compared with 49 of 128 on serve, while points after intervals were almost perfectly balanced at 23 wins from 48, against 24 before them. The campaign ended with a quarterfinal appearance in women’s doubles and a second-round mixed-doubles exit.