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BadMINTONmi
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By anupam raina

Year 2016-2017

Acknowledgement
I am thankful to
- Mr , our Physical Education Teacher. He is
instrumental in teaching us the importance of
Physical Activities.
- Mr

Sir, our class teacher for his kind

motivation and moral support.

- The Principal
- The School
- All the school authorities
Last but not the least, I am indebted to my
parents for their kind and touching support
despite all odds.

Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either
two opposing players (singles)
ortwoopposing

pairs

(doubles),

who take positions on opposite

halves of a rectangular court that
is divided by a net. Players score
points by striking
a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it
passes over the net and lands in their
opponents' half of the
court. Each side may
only

strike

shuttlecock

the
once

before it
passes over the net. A rally ends once the
shuttlecock has struck the floor.

History
The beginnings of Badminton can be traced to
mid-18th century British India.
It

was

created

by

British

military

officers

stationed there.
Early photographs show Englishmen adding a
net to the traditional BADMINTON was invented
long ago; a form of sport played in ancient
Greece and Egypt.
Being particularly popular in the British garrison
town Poona (now Pune), the game also came to
be known as Poona
The game was called "POONA" in India during
the 18th Century, and British Army Officers
stationed there took the Indian version back to
England in the 1860's.
In 1934, the International Badminton Federation
(IBF) was organized
Badminton was first contested as an official
Olympic sport at the 1992 Olympic games in
Barcelona, Spain.

Rules
It is played by two or four players on a markedout area 44 ft (13.41 m) long by 17 ft (5.18 m)
wide for the two-player game and 20 ft (6.10
m) wide for the four-player game. A net is fixed
across the middle of the court, with the top
edge of the net set to a height of 5 ft (1.52 m)
from the ground at the center and 5 ft 1 in
(1.55 m) at the posts.

If the serving side fails to return the

shuttlecock, it losses the serve. Each
game is played to 21 points, with

players scoring a point whenever they

win a rally regardless of whether they
served (this differs from
the old system where players could
only win a point on their serve and
each game was played to 15 points).
A match is the best of three games
At the start of the rally, the server and
receiver stand in diagonally opposite
service courts. The server hits the
shuttlecock so that it would land in
the receiver's service court. This is
similar

to

tennis,

except

that

badminton serve must be hit below

waist height and with the racquet
shaft

pointing

downwards,

the

shuttlecock is not allowed to bounce

and in badminton, the players stand
inside
tennis

their

service

courts

unlike

CHAMPIANSHIPS
The

BWF

organizes

several

international

competitions,

including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international

team event first held in 19481949, and the Uber Cup, the
women's

equivalent

first

held

in

19561957.

The

competitions take place once every two years. More than 50

national teams compete in qualifying tournaments within
continental confederations for a place in the finals. The final
tournament involves 12 teams.
The Sudirman Cup, a gender-mixed international team event
held once every two years, began in 1989. Teams are
divided into seven levels based on the performance of each
country. To win the tournament, a country must perform well
across all five disciplines (men's doubles and singles,
women's doubles and singles, and mixed doubles). Like
association football (soccer), it features a promotion and
relegation system in every level.
Badminton became an official Summer Olympic sport at the
Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and its gold medals now
generally rate as the sport's most coveted prizes for
individual players.

In the BWF World Championships, first held in 1977,

currently only the highest ranked 64 players in the world,
and a maximum of four from each country, can participate in
any category. In both the
Olympic and BWF World competitions restrictions on the
number of participants from any one country have caused
some

controversy

because

they

sometimes

result

in

excluding elite world level players from the strongest

badminton nations. The Thomas, Uber, and Sudirman Cups,
the Olympics, and the BWF World (and World Junior
Championships),

are

all

categorized

as

level

one

tournaments.
At the start of 2007, the BWF introduced a new tournament
structure for the highest level tournaments aside from those
in level one: the BWF Super Series. This level two
tournament series, a tour for the world's elite players, stages
twelve open tournaments around the world with 32 players
(half the previous limit). The players collect points that
determine whether they can play in Super Series Final held
at the year end. Among the tournaments in this series is the
venerable All-England Championships, first held in 1900,
which

was

once

considered

championships of the sport.

the

unofficial

world

Level three tournaments consist of Grand Prix Gold and

Grand Prix event. Top players can collect the world ranking
points and enable them to play in the BWF Super Series
open tournaments. These include the regional competitions
in

Asia

(Badminton

Asia

Championships)

and

Europe

(European Badminton Championships), which produce the

world's best players as well as the Pan America Badminton
Championships.
The

level

Challenge,

four

tournaments,

International

known

Series

and

as

International

Future

Series,

encourage participation by junior players.

Some Major International Tournaments are as under:
Name of Tournament

Type

BWF World Junior Championships

BWF events

European Men's & Women's Team

Championships

BWF events

Thomas & Uber Cup

BWF
Tournament

Russian Open Grand Prix

Grand Prix

YONEX Canada Open

Grand Prix

YONEX Dutch Open

Grand Prix

YONEX-SUNRISE Vietnam Open

Grand Prix

Bitburger SaarLoxLux Open

Grand Prix Gold

Indonesia Open

Grand Prix Gold

Korea Open

Grand Prix Gold

Macau Open Badminton Championships

Grand Prix Gold

YONEX German Open Badminton

Grand Prix Gold

Championships
YONEX/OCBC US Open Championships

Grand Prix Gold

YONEX-SUNRISE India Grand Prix

Grand Prix Gold

Oceania Championships

Grand Prix
status

27th Brazil International Badminton Cup

International
Challenge

Austrian International Challenge

-do-

Bahrain International Challenge

-do-

Denmark International

-do-

Finnish Open

-do-

Guatemala International Challenge

-do-

India International Challenge

-do-

Iran Fajr International Challenge

-do-

Kharkov International

-do-

Maldives International Badminton

Challenge

-do-

MAYBANK Malaysia International Challenge -doNorwegian International

-do-

Osaka International Challenge

-do-

Polish Open International

-do-

Scottish International Championships

-do-

Spanish Open

-do-

Swedish International Stockholm

-do-

Swiss International 2012

-do-

Tahiti French Polynesia International

Challenge

-do-

VICTOR Indonesia International Challenge -doVietnam International Challange

-do-

XII Italian International

-do-

XVII Peru Internacional

-do-

YONEX Belgian International

-do-

YONEX Bulgarian International

Championships

-do-

YONEX Czech International

-do-

YONEX Dutch International

-do-

YONEX Welsh International Badminton

-do-

Championships
Bulgaria Hebar Open

International
Series

37th YONEX Hungarian International 2012 -doBanuinvest International

-do-

Croatian International

-do-

French International

-do-

FZ Forza Slovenia International

-do-

Iceland International

-do-

Internacional Mexicano CANCELLED

-do-

International Open Morocco

-do-

Iraqi International Series

-do-

LI-NING Singapore International Series

-do-

Li-Ning Sunlight Victorian International

-do-

Polish Open

-do-

Tahiti French Polynesia International

Challenge

-do-

VICTOR Indonesia International Challenge

-do-

Vietnam International Challange

-do-

XII Italian International

-do-

XVII Peru Internacional

-do-

YONEX Belgian International

-do-

YONEX Bulgarian International

Championships

-do-

YONEX Czech International

-do-

YONEX Dutch International

-do-

YONEX Welsh International Badminton

Championships

-do-

Bulgaria Hebar Open

International
Series

37th YONEX Hungarian International 2012

-do-

Banuinvest International

-do-

Croatian International

-do-

French International

-do-

International Mexicano CANCELLED

International Open Morocco

-do-do-

Iraqi International Series

LI-NING Singapore International Series
Li-Ning Sunlight Victorian International
Polish Open
Tahiti French Polynesia International
Challenge

-do-do-do-do-

VICTOR Indonesia International Challenge

-do-

Vietnam International Challange

-do-

XII Italian International

-do-

XVII Peru Internacional

-do-

YONEX Belgian International

-do-

YONEX Bulgarian International

Championships

-do-

YONEX Czech International

-do-

YONEX Dutch International

-do-

YONEX Welsh International Badminton

-do-

-do-

Championships
Bulgaria Hebar Open

International
Series

37th YONEX Hungarian International 2012

-do-

Portuguese International
Championships

-do-

SOTX Auckland International

-do-

Turkiye International

-do-

Uganda International

-do-

VI Suriname International

-do-

YONEX Estonian International

-do-

LI NING China Masters

Super Series

LI-NING Singapore Open

Super Series

MAYBANK Malaysia Badminton Open

Super Series

YONEX French Open

Super Series

YONEX Open Japan

Super Series

YONEX-SUNRISE Hong Kong Open

Super Series

YONEX-SUNRISE India Open

Super Series

Denmark Open

Super Series
Premier

DJARUM Indonesia Open

-do-

LI NING China Open

-do-

VICTOR Korea Open

-do-

The Top 10 men's singles badminton players in the

world
(as on 24-Apr-2011 based on world rankings
published by BWF)
1. Chong Wei LEE - Malaysia
2. Taufik HIDAYAT - Indonesia
3. Dan LIN - China
4. Long CHEN - China
5. Boonsak PONSANA - Thailand
6. Peter Hoeg GADE - Denmark
7. Tien Minh NGUYEN - Vietnam
8. Jin CHEN - China
9. Simon SANTOSO - Indonesia
10.Sung Hwan PARK Korea
The Top 10 women's singles badminton players in the
world (as on 24-Apr-2011 based on world rankings
published by BWF)
1. Shixian WANG - China
2. Yihan Wang - China
3. Xin Wang - China
4. Saina NEHWAL - India
5. Xin(1) - China
6. Jiang Yanjiao - China
7. Juliane Schenk - Germany
8. Youn Joo BAE - Korea
9. Tine BAUN - Denmark

10.Petya NEDELCHEVA - Bulgaria

Old Warriors
There are so many to name when it comes to the famous
badminton legends:
Eddy Choong, Han Jian, Yang Yang, Zhao Jian Hua, Rudy
Hartono, Icuk Sugiarto, Morten Frost, Ong Ewe Hock, Rexy
Manaiky, Park Joo Bong, Misbun Sidek, Lim Swie King, David
G. Freeman, Jorge Palazuelos, Pullela Gopichand, Martin
Dew-Hattens or Susi Susanti,

Eddy Choong. Eddy Choong, born in 1930 in

Malaysian, is a famous badminton player, who
won most major honors during his career
spanned from as early as 1950.

David G. Freeman of Pasadena, Calif. He dominated

the sport

from 1939 until the national

championships were abandoned because of

the war after 1942. He is one of those
players who have so many incredible stories
associated with his career in badminton. He
is considered to be a magician in the court
because

he can drive the shuttlecock at any designated spot and

make a bulls-eye. Not only this, but he is said to be the
greatest retriever

that badminton has ever produced.

India

has

great

badminton

history.

Prakash

Padukone, Pullela Gopichand, Aparna Popat & Saina Nehwal

are some of the most famous Indian badminton players.

Great American men players have been Walter R. Kramer,

Chester Goss, Donald Eversoll, Hamilton Law, Richard
Yeager,

William

Markham,

Carl

Loveday,

Donald

Richardson, Phillip Richardson, LeRoy Erikson, Reaford

Haney, William Faversham, Wayne Schell, C. Raynor
Hutchinson, Clinton Stephens, Richard Mitchell, Barney
McCay, Webb Kimball, Roy Lockwood, Wynn Robers, Marten
Mendez, Joseph Alston, Dr. Jim Poole, Dr. Don Paup, Dr.
Stanton Hales, and Chris Kinard.

Great English badminton men players through the last 40

years have included F. Chesterton, G.A. Sautter, H.N.
Marrett, Sir George A. Thomas, G.B.S. Mack, J.F. Devlin,
F.Hodge, E. Hawthorn, D.C. Hume, H.G. Uber, A.K. Jones,
R.C.F. Nichols, R.M. White and Ken Davidson (later of the
United States).

The Canadian men stars were Col. A.E. Snell, McTaggart

Cowan, Dr. H.T. Douglas, C.W. Aikmen, Jack Underhill, Jack

Purcell, J.W. Taylor, Douglass Grant, Rod Phelan, Jack G.

Muir, Noel Radford, George Goodwin Jr., James Forsythe, J.E.
Sibbald, Reginald Hill,

D.W.R. McKean, Grant Henry, John Samis, James Snyder,

Paul Snyder, Richard Birch, Len Schlemm, Allan France,
H.K. Pollock, H.E. Porter, Gordon Simpson, Don Smythe,
Daryl Thompson, Alan Williams, Dave McTaggart, Wayne
MacDonnell, Jamie Paulson, Bruce Rollick, and Yves Pare.

Canadian Judy Devlin-Hashman

the best

was one

of

badminton players in the world. From 1954 to 1967 she

won more than 50 major championships, including 12 U.S.
seniors' national titles and 10 All-England championships.
Isn't it remarkable?

Indian National Champions

Season

Men's
singles

2000

Pullela
Gopichand

2001

2002
2003

2004

Women's
Men's
singles
doubles

Vincent
Lobo
Jwala Gutta
Jaseel P. Shruti Kurian
Ismail
Sanave
K. Neelima
Thomas
Chowdary
Valiyaveetil
D. Swetha
Diju

Abhinn
Shyam
Gupta

Chetan
Anand

Aparna
Popat

Markose
Bristow
Rupesh
Kumar

Anup
Sridhar

2005
2006
2007
2008

Chetan
Anand
Arvind Bhat

Women's
doubles

Saina
Nehwal
Sayali
Gokhale

2009

Chetan
Anand

Trupti
Murgunde

2010

Arvind Bhat

Aditi
Mutatkar

Rupesh
Kumar
Sanave
Thomas

Mixed
doubles
Vincent Lobo
Madhumita
Bisht

Markose
Bristow
Madhumita
Bisht
Jaseel P. Ismail
Manjusha
Kanwar
Pullela
Gopichand
Jwala Gutta
Markose
Bristow
Jwala Gutta
B. R.
Shruti Kurian
Meenakshi
Valiyaveetil Diju
Jwala Gutta
Valiyaveetil Diju
Shruti Kurian
Valiyaveetil Diju
Aparna Balan
Valiyaveetil Diju
Jwala Gutta
Jwala Gutta
Ashwini
Ponnappa
Aparna
Pranav Chopra
Balan
Prajakta
Prajakta
Sawant
Sawant

Beijing Olympic 2008 Results

Event
Mens

Gold
Lin Dan (CHN)

Singles

Silver
Lee Chong

Bronze
Chen Jin
(CHN)

Wei (MAS)

Mens

Markis Kido

Cai Yun

Hwang Ji-man

Doubles

and Hendra

and Fu

and Lee Jae-

Setiawan (INA) Haifeng (CHN)

jin (KOR)

Womens Zhang

Xie

Singles

Xingfang (CHN) Yulianti (INA)

Ning (CHN)

Maria Kristin

Womens Du Jing

Lee Hyo-jung

Wei Yili

Doubles

and Yu

and Lee Kyung- and Zhang

Yang (CHN)

won (KOR)

Yawen (CHN

Mixed

Lee Hyo-jung

Lilyana Natsir

He Hanbin

Doubles

and Lee Yong-

and Nova

and Yu

dae (KOR)

Widianto (INA)

Yang (CHN)

Yonex BWF World Championships 2011

Event

Mens Singles Lin Dan

II
Chong Wei
Lee

III
Jin Chen
Peter Hoeg
Gade

Mens Doubles Yun Cai

Haifeng Fu

Sung Hyun Ko Jae Sung Jung

Yeon Seong

Yong Dae Lee

Yoo

Mohammad
Ahsan
Bona Septano

Womens

Yihan Wang

Singles

Shao Chieh

Juliane Schenk

Cheng

Xin Wang

Womens

Xiaoli Wang

Qing Tian

Miyuki Maeda

Doubles

Yang Yu

Yunlei Zhao

Satoko
Suetsuna
Jwala Gutta
Ashwini
Ponnappa

Mixed Doubles Nan Zhang

Yunlei Zhao

Chris Adcock
Imogen
Bankier

Chen Xu
Jin Ma
Tantowi
Ahmad
Liliyana Natsir

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Badminton_Champio
nships

2 http://www.badmintonindia.org/
3 http://www.bwfbadminton.org/
4 http://bwfbadminton.visualclubweb.nl/
5 http://mybadmintonbook.blogspot.in/
6 http://www.allsportsmedals.com/badminton-medals.html