Badminton

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Badminton

Badminton is a sport which you play with a badminton racket and a shuttle. A shuttle can be made of nylon or feathers and will be played over a net. You play badminton in a gym, because outside the wind will blow your shuttle away! There are different types of games: woman/man single, women/man double and a mix, a woman plays with a man then.

Badminton is one of the oldest sports in the world. People have found coal drawings in India that are about 2000 years old. In those drawings you see a game with a flying object, like an apple, with feathers. There weren’t rackets yet, so people played it with their own hands and feet. The Chinese made shuttle by connecting some feathers to a coin. In the nineteenth century English colonels brought the game with them from India. That game was called ‘poona’. John Baldwin played this game in 1873 on his estate Badminton. That’s how the game got his name. In 1877 the first rules were created and in 1893 the first Badminton Club was set. An English one of course. In these days you’ve had tournaments like the Thomas- and Ubercup. You can see them like a Davis Cup with tennis. And in 1992 was badminton one of the sports at the Summer Olympics.

Some famous badmintonplayers in The Netherlands are:
- Mia Audina Tjiptawan
- Judith Meulendijks
- Yao Jie
- Gerben Bruijstens

With badminton, you count with the rally-point-system. You win a contest if you win two of the three sets. You win a set when you’ve got 21 points first, but there has to be a two points difference. When it’s 20-20 for example, you keep playing until there is two points difference. When it becomes 29-29, it’s about who has 30 points first. You play the single, the double and the mix all in the same way.

You can make different mistakes, for example:
- hitting the shuttle in the net;
- hitting the shuttle and it doesn’t fall inside the lines.
- trying to hit the shuttle, but you miss it and it falls in your own field.
When you make a mistake the service goes to the player(s) who didn’t have the service. So if you had the service for example and you serve and the opponent plays the shuttle back and you miss it. The service goes to the opponent. You always get a point when the opponent makes a mistake and when you make a mistake, the opponent gets a point of course.

There are different fields if you play a single or a double. With the single you play at a long and small field and with a double you play at a short and wide field.
We play with this rally-point-system since August 2006. Before August different badminton players tried this way of counting. They said it was not hard to learn and it was a good way of counting, so the system got introduced.

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