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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,

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 U.S. men’s team was also world runner-up during this period. Joe Alston was the first American badminton player featured on the front page of Sports Illustrated on the March 7, 1955 issue.

Matches comprise of the best of three games. Each game starts at 0-0 (traditionally called "love-all") if the serving side wins a rally, it scores a point, and serves again but from the alternate service court. If the receiving side wins the rally, the score remains unchanged and the service passes to the next player in turn. In singles, this is the opponent: in double it's either the partner or, if both players have just had a turn of serving, one of the opponents. In men's singles and men's doubles, 15 points wins a game. However, if the score reaches 14-14, the side, which first reached 14, can choose either to play to 15, or to set the game to 17 points. The final score will reflect the sum of the points won before setting plus the points gained in setting. Scoring in women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles is slightly different. 11 points wins a game and there is the option to set to 13 points at 10-10.

The sport of badminton in June 1985 was recognized by the International Olympic Committee and voted unanimously to full-medal Olympic status. After having been a demonstration sport at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and an exhibition sport in 1988 in Seoul,

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