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Badminton

This page covers the vocabulary and linguistic communication of badminton by looking at its groundwork, equipment and people. Check your understanding with the vocabulary quiz and comprehension quiz.

From the backstreets of Bangkok to the beaches of Brazil, people tin be seen hitting feathery projectiles called shuttlecocks with light-weight rackets. These shuttlecocks and rackets are the basic tools of badminton, and they are all you lot need for a session of "bat" in which you and a friend hit a shuttlecock to each other for every bit long as possible without letting information technology touch the ground. This fun activity is not simply a practiced course of exercise, information technology's also a dandy way of practising the skills you'll demand for a real game of badminton should y'all e'er find yourself on a proper badminton court. While growing in popularity as a fun way of keeping fit, badminton is as well developing fast every bit a professional sport with its own agenda of heady tournaments and its own band of star international players.

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History

Games similar to badminton take existed throughout history, from ancient Greece to medieval Japan and colonial Bharat, where a form of the game chosen "poona" was played. In the 1860's, British Army officers posted to India took the game home to England, where information technology became a popular pastime for the wealthier classes. In 1873, the Duke of Beaufort introduced the game to his guests during a gathering at Badminton House, his home in Gloucestershire. The sport was and then known as "The Game of Badminton" for a number of years, until the proper noun was shortened to "badminton". The Badminton Association of England was formed in 1893 and presently after they published the first fix of rules. In 1899 they organized the All England Open Badminton Championships, the globe'south offset major badminton competition. The Badminton World Federation (BWF) was established in 1934, and since then the game has developed into a truly international sport, with summit players now coming from Denmark, Prc, Indonesia, South Korea and Malaysia. Since 1992, badminton has likewise been an Olympic sport, with events for both men and women.

How The Game Works

Badminton is played on a courtroom marked for both singles and doubles matches. The doubles court is six.1 metres (twenty feet) wide and thirteen.four m (44 ft) long, and the singles court is a little smaller. The net is 1.55 thou (5 ft i inch) high at the edges and 1.524 m (5 ft) high in the centre.

badminton court To begin a singles game, players stand in diagonally reverse service courts (see diagram at right) and the server so serves the shuttlecock underhand from below the waist. If the receiver thinks the serve is a fault, significant it will land outside the receiver'due south service court, he or she tin can go out information technology and win the point if it does exit. Only if the receiver thinks the serve is adept, he or she must return it before it bounces. If the return is good, a rally begins. The rally continues until someone wins information technology by hitting a good shot which their opponent cannot return, or until someone loses it past hitting a fault. Faults include hitting the shuttlecock into the net, hitting information technology outside the courtroom, or hitting information technology twice with 2 split shots before it goes over the net. Whoever wins the rally earns ane point, and serves to start the side by side point. Players can use a range of shots during a rally, including drop shots, drives, clears, smashes, kills, cyberspace shots and push shots. Height players larn to disguise their shots, and try to pull a fast one on the opponent into thinking they're about to striking one type of shot, but then hit a very unlike blazon of shot, hoping to win the bespeak by surprising the opponent.

Play continues until one histrion wins the game past being the beginning to earn 21 points, with a margin of at least two points. For example, if the score is 21 to 19, the game is over. But if the score is 21 to 20, the game continues. If the histrion with 21 points then wins a bespeak, the score is 22 to 20 and the game is over. Matches are usually the best of iii games. This means the outset player to win 2 games wins the match.

Before May 2006, players could only win a bespeak on their ain serve. But the scoring system was changed in 2006, and at present players can earn a bespeak on their own serve and also when their opponent serves.

Competitions

The Badminton Earth Federation (BWF) runs several tournaments for national teams, including the World Men's Team Title, likewise known as the Thomas Cup, and the Earth Team Championships for Women, also known as the Uber Cup. These tournaments are held between national teams every two years, as is The Sudirman Cup, a mixed team outcome that began in 1989.

International tournaments for individual players include the BWF World Championships, in which the 64 highest-ranked players in the world are invited to compete every year for the title of "World Champion". Badminton outset became an Olympic sport at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. For the men's and women'southward singles events, qualification is granted to the tiptop 29 players in the BWF's ranking listing. For the men'southward doubles, the women's doubles and the mixed doubles, the 19 top-ranked pairs are invited to compete. Only five countries take won the Olympic gold medals since badminton's introduction in 1992 - Red china (eight), Republic of indonesia (five) and Korea (5) and Kingdom of denmark (1).

Famous Players

Peter Høeg Gade

Peter Gade Peter Høeg Gade (right) was born in 1976 in Denmark. He is one of the about successful badminton players of recent times, leading the earth rankings from 1998 to 2001. He won the All England Open Badminton Championships singles championship in 1999 as well as four European Championship crowns in the men's singles event and xvi Yard-Prix titles. In 2006, at the age of xxx, he regained the summit spot in the globe rankings subsequently winning the Singapore Open. Gade is well known for his tactical brilliance, his movement effectually the court and his power to disguise his shots.

Fu Haifeng

Fu Haifeng was born in 1984 in Guangdong province in the People'due south Republic of Mainland china. He was ranked number one in the earth in 2007 afterward being the 2006 World Champion in men'due south doubles together with his playing partner, Cai Yun. Much of Fu Haifeng's fame in the globe of badminton results from the fact that he ready the official world blast speed record on June 3, 2005. The shuttlecock's speed was measured at 332 km/h (approximately 206 mph), making badminton the fastest racket sport in the world.

Badminton Vocabulary Listing

word	case sentence	pregnant
ace	Jenny's accurateness means she serves lots of aces.	a serve that the opponent fails to hit
backcourt	I ran to the backcourt to return his lob.	dorsum 3rd of the courtroom (same as "rearcourt")
backhand	If his backhand is weak, play more to his left side.	a stroke made on the side of the body opposite the racket side
baseline	The shuttlecock landed merely within the baseline.	back line of the courtroom
bird / baboon	The U.Due south. players say birdie instead of shuttlecock.	shuttlecock (mostly used in Due north America)
behave	The umpire chosen my shot a carry, so I lost the point.	an illegal stroke in which the shuttle is caught and held on the racket before being released; also chosen a "sling" or "throw"
heart line	The centre line divides the court into ii service courts.	a line that separates the left and correct service courts
clear	She hit a articulate loftier and to the back of her opponent's courtroom.	a shot hit deep into the opponent's court
doubles	Why don't y'all ask her to exist your partner in mixed doubles?	a game betwixt teams of two players
drop shot	He was at the back of the courtroom, and then I played a driblet shot and he couldn't attain it.	a shot that just clears the cyberspace and and then drops sharply
drive	She played a forehand bulldoze straight down the line and won the point.	a fast hard shot
error	Information technology is likewise a error if the shuttlecock hits the ceiling during a rally.	a foul shot, such as ane that hits the net or lands outside the court
forecourt	If yous play from the forecourt, you lot'll take a ameliorate take chances of hitting a winner.	the forepart third of the courtroom
dwelling position	Players in singles matches endeavor to get back to the home position whenever they can during a game.	central position on courtroom which is halfway between the baseline and net, and the two sidelines
kill / impale shot	You can striking a cyberspace kill if the shuttlecock comes high over the net.	fast downwards shot that cannot be returned
permit	Unlike in tennis, if a serve hits the top of the cyberspace and and then goes over it isn't called a let.	a minor violation of the rules requiring a rally to be replayed
lob	Her lob flew high into the air and dropped into the back of the court, merely inside the baseline.	a shot that is hit in a high arc, usually over the opponent'due south head
internet	The shuttlecock striking the tiptop of the net and merely went over, so she won the indicate.	the length of meshed material supported on a cord between two posts that divides the court
cyberspace shot	Net shots are good to play if your opponent is in his or her rearcourt.	a shot hit from the forecourt that just clears the net and drops sharply
passing shot	She beat her opponent with a stiff passing shot down the line.	a shot which passes the opponent
push shot	He tried to play a push shot, but it was too soft and it went into the internet.	a soft shot played by pushing the shuttlecock with a little wrist motion
racket (likewise racquet)	A badminton dissonance is smaller and lighter than a tennis racket.	the musical instrument used by players to hit the shuttlecock
rally	The crowd applauded later watching some other long, heady rally.	a series of shots hit back and forth beyond the cyberspace
rearcourt	Players try non to get caught in the rearcourt if possible.	rear tertiary of the court (same as "backcourt")
serve	In lawn tennis players apply overhead serves, but in badminton they use underarm serves.	a shot which begins play
service court	You have to serve from inside your own service court.	the surface area into which a serve must be hit
short serve	A good player can surprise his or her opponent past disguising a short serve.	a serve that barely clears the net and lands just inside the receiver's service court
smash	Dan jumped loftier in the air and hit a powerful boom to win the rally.	a powerful overhead shot
wood shot	He was lucky when he hit a wood shot and the shuttlecock still went over the net.	a legal shot in which the shuttlecock hits the frame of the dissonance