Badminton

The invention of Badminton originates back to at least two thousand years ago, where is was a combination of the games battledore and shuttlecock played in ancient Greece, India, and China. “It is known that around 1860, the daughters of the Duke of Beutfort were playing Battledore and Shuttlecock in the great hall of Badminton house, the seat of the Somerset family in Gloucestershire, England. To add a little variety, they rigged up a string across the hall from the doorway to the fireplace and the aim of the game was to try to keep the shuttle going by playing it to each other over the string. It is believed that Mr. J L Baldwin suggested that it would be more amusing if the shuttle were to be hit away from instead of towards players on the other side of the string. The sport of badminton had been created.”Gloucestershire is now the foundation for the International Badminton Federation. 131 countries are members of the IBF today.

“The American Badminton Association was organized in 1936 (changed to USBA in 1978), when Donald Wilbur, Robert McMillan, and twins Donald and Phillip Richardson, all from Brookline, Massachusetts, decided to combine the nation’s various badminton groups. Programs from New York, Massachusetts, Chicago,

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After having 2,700 members belong to the USBA in 1995, the USBA estimates there are thousands more recreational badminton players in the United States then back when the foundation was founded. Since then, the number of world events has increased with the addition of the Uber Cup (ladies' team), World Championships, Sudirman Cup (mixed team), World Juniors and the World Grand Prix Finals. men’s team was also world runner-up during this period. The server and receiver stand in the diagonally opposite service courts (always right hand at the start of the game) but therefore players may move anywhere on their side of the net. and the West Coast came together to form one set of rules and regulations of the game”.

Between 1949 and 1967, the United States won 23 world individual championships (one men’s singles, 12 women’s singles, one men’s doubles, eight women’s doubles, and one mixed doubles) and three women’s world team championships. ”

The two most successful badminton countries are China and Indonesia, which between them have won 70% of all IBF events. The first major IBF tournament was the Thomas Cup in 1948. Scoring in women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles is slightly different.

First you toss, “The winner of the toss can elect to serve or receive in the first game, or to choose to play at a particular end of the court. The service courts are slightly different for singles and doubles. The loser of the toss makes the remaining choice.

Matches comprise of the best of three games.

The laws of badminton may seem simple to the players, but are actually rather complicated.

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