BPS State Badminton Ranking Tournament 2026

Samaira Velip’s tournament began with a 15–7, 15–8 singles win over Adhira Jadhav on 7 Aug 2026, and ended two days later after four event threads had run their course at the BPS State Badminton Ranking Tournament 2026 in Navelim.

In U11 Girls’ Singles, the fourth seed followed that opening win with a 6–15, 4–15 loss to Saachi Sinai Kenkre. The match was her longest wait and her clearest statistical struggle: she won only 3 of 10 rallies on her serve, while her longest deficit-running streak reached nine. She finished 1–1 in the event, with 23 minutes on court.

Her U11 Girls’ Doubles campaign, alongside an unnamed partner in the dossier, also split 1–1. The pair beat Nupur Jogdand and Shanaya Sah 15–6, 15–1, then lost 9–15, 3–15 to Saachi Sinai Kenkre and Yashika Koneru. That defeat came after a 64-minute rally gap at the start of the first game, the tournament’s longest recorded gap; the doubles event supplied 27 minutes of court time.

On 9 Aug, Velip’s U9 Girls’ Singles run opened with a walkover against Niya Shreevash, so it added no played rallies. She then beat Meher Aghicha 15–1, 15–3 before losing 6–15, 6–15 to Oorvi Khyalia in round three. In U9 Girls’ Doubles, again with a partner, the pair beat Meher Aghicha and Ranisa Naik 15–4, 15–2.

Across seven completed matches, Velip recorded four wins and three losses, spending 84 minutes on court. A telling pattern sits beneath the 154 points won: she won 103 of 152 serve rallies but only 51 of 124 on receive. Her campaign ended in the U9 singles quarterfinal round and continued no further in the available results.