Badminton

is a racquet sport played using
racquets to hit a shuttlecock

across a net. Although it may be
Badminton played with larger teams, the
most common forms of the game
are "singles" (with one player per
side) and "doubles" (with two
players per side).olor Amet
Badminton is often played as a casual
outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach;
formal games are played on a
rectangular indoor court. Points are
scored by striking the shuttlecock with
the racquet and landing it within the
other team's half of the court.
 Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it
passes over the net. Play ends once the shuttlecock has
struck the floor or ground, or if a fault has been called by
the umpire, service judge, or (in their absence) the
opposing side.
 The shuttlecock is a feathered or (in informal matches)
plastic projectile that flies differently from the balls used in
many other sports. In particular, the feathers create much
higher drag, causing the shuttlecock to decelerate more
rapidly
 Shuttlecocks also have a high top speed compared to the
balls in other racquet sports. The flight of the shuttlecock
gives the sport its distinctive nature, and in certain
languages the sport is named by reference to this feature
(e.g., German Federball, literally feather-ball).
 The game developed in British India from the earlier
game of battledore and shuttlecock. European play
came to be dominated by Denmark but the game has
become very popular in Asia, with recent
competitions dominated by China
 In 1992, badminton debuted as a Summer Olympic sport
with four events: men's singles, women's singles, men's
doubles, and women's doubles;[2] mixed doubles was added
four years later. At high levels of play, the sport demands
excellent fitness: players require aerobic stamina, agility,
strength, speed, and precision. It is also a technical sport,
requiring good motor coordination and the development of
sophisticated racquet movements involving much greater
flexibility in the wrist than some other racquet sports.[
History
 Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries
across Eurasia,[a] but the modern game of badminton developed in
the mid-19th century among the expatriate officers of British India
as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock.
 ("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".) [4] Its exact origin
remains obscure. The name derives from the Duke of Beaufort's
Badminton House in Gloucestershire,[5] but why or when remains
unclear.[citation needed] As early as 1860, a London toy dealer named
Isaac Spratt published a booklet entitled Badminton Battledore – A
New Game, but no copy is known to have survived. [
 An 1863 article in The Cornhill Magazine describes badminton
as "battledore and shuttlecock played with sides, across a
string suspended some five feet from the ground“
 The game originally developed in India among the British
expatriates,[8] where it was very popular by the 1870s.[6]
Ball badminton, a form of the game played with a wool ball
instead of a shuttlecock, was being played in Thanjavur as
early as the 1850s[9] and was at first played interchangeably
with badminton by the British, the woollen ball being preferred
in windy or wet weather.
 Early on, the game was also known as Poona or Poonah after
the garrison town of Poona (Pune),[8][10] where it was particularly
popular and where the first rules for the game were drawn up in
1873.[6][7][b] By 1875, officers returning home had started a
badminton club in Folkestone. Initially, the sport was played with
sides ranging from 1 to 4 players, but it was quickly established
that games between two or four competitors worked the best.[4]
The shuttlecocks were coated with India rubber and, in outdoor
play, sometimes weighted with lead.[4] Although the depth of the
net was of no consequence, it was preferred that it should reach
the ground.[4]
 The sport was played under the Pune rules until 1887, when
J. H. E. Hart of the Bath Badminton Club drew up revised
regulations.[5] In 1890, Hart and Bagnel Wild again revised the
rules.[6] The Badminton Association of England (BAE)
published these rules in 1893 and officially launched the sport
at a house called "Dunbar"[c] in Portsmouth on 13 September.
[12]
The BAE started the first badminton competition, the
All England Open Badminton
 Championships for gentlemen's doubles, ladies' doubles, and
mixed doubles, in 1899.[5] Singles competitions were added in
1900 and an England–Ireland championship match appeared
in 1904.[5]
 England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Denmark, France,
Ireland, the Netherlands, and New Zealand were the
founding members of the International Badminton Federation
in 1934, now known as the Badminton World Federation.[13]
India joined as an affiliate in 1936.
 The BWF now governs international badminton. Although
initiated in England, competitive men's badminton has
traditionally been dominated in Europe by Denmark.
Worldwide, Asian nations have become dominant in
international competition.
 China, Denmark, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, South Korea,
Taiwan (playing as 'Chinese Taipei') and Japan are the
nations which have consistently produced world-class
players in the past few decades, with China being the
greatest force in men's and women's competition recently.
Great Britain, where the rules of the modern game were
codified, is not among the top powers in the sport, but has
had significant Olympic and World success in doubles play,
especially mixed doubles.
 The game has also become a popular backyard sport in the
United States.
Rules
The following information is a simplified summary of
badminton rules based on the BWF Statutes publication, Laws
of Badminton.[14]
 Court
 The court is rectangular and divided into halves by a net. Courts are usually
marked for both singles and doubles play, although badminton rules permit
a court to be marked for singles only. [14] The doubles court is wider than the
singles court, but both are of the same length. The exception, which often
causes confusion to newer players, is that the doubles court has a shorter
serve-length dimension.
 The full width of the court is 6.1 metres (20 feet), and in singles this width is
reduced to 5.18 metres (17.0 feet). The full length of the court is 13.4
metres (44 feet). The service courts are marked by a centre line dividing the
width of the court, by a short service line at a distance of 1.98 metres (6 feet
6 inches) from the net, and by the outer side and back boundaries. In
doubles, the service court is also marked by a long service line, which is
0.76 metres (2 feet 6 inches) from the back boundary.

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