In the fourteenth century, the British played battledore shuttlecock, a sport in which players attempted to keep the shuttlecock in the air with the use of a racket or paddle. During this period up until the mid-1800s this game was widely recognized as a children’s game.

In the early 1860s, British army soldiers stationed in India played a competitive sport called “poona” a game very similar to shuttlecock which included a net and boundaries. These soldiers brought the equipment and the game back to England in the mid-1870s and are credited with introducing the sport to the British people in particular

The Badminton Club of New York was founded in 1878, the first club in the United States. Badminton gained popularity in the 1930s. In 1935, the American Badminton Association (“ABA”) was established and conducted the first national championship tournament in 1938. The ABA was renamed the U.S. Badminton Association (“USBA”) in 1978. The USBA drafted a High Performance Plan in April 1994 that detailed a comprehensive plan to achieve Olympic medals by the 2004 games. According to a recent study, badminton is also a popular recreational sport with more than a million Americans playing the game.

Originally, the game was played in an hourglass shaped hall, narrower in the middle than at the ends. Badminton was played on this odd-shaped court until 1901. Standardized rules were instituted in 1887 and were revised in 1895 and 1905.

Badminton made its Olympic debut as a demonstration sport in Germany in 1972, an exhibition sport in 1988 in Se

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