A Project Report On Badminton

Year 2011-12

To: Mr Moin Khan Sir

By: Kartik Vyas Class XI B DPS, Jodhpur

Acknowledgement

I am thankful to - Mr Moin Khan Sir, our Physical Education Teacher. He is instrumental in teaching us the importance of Physical Activities. - Mr Darshanlal 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) or two opposing 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 the

shuttlecock 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 mid18th 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 marked-out 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 a 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 their service courts unlike tennis

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 the unofficial world

championships of the sport.

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 four tournaments, known as International Challenge, International Series and Future Series, encourage participation by junior players.

Some Major International Tournaments are as under: Name of Tournament BWF World Junior Championships European Men's & Women's Team Championships Thomas & Uber Cup BWF Tournament Russian Open Grand Prix YONEX Canada Open YONEX Dutch Open YONEX-SUNRISE Vietnam Open Bitburger SaarLoxLux Open Indonesia Open Korea Open Macau Open Badminton Championships Malaysia Open SCG Thailand Open Swiss Open YONEX Australian Open YONEX Chinese Taipei Open Grand Prix Grand Prix Grand Prix Grand Prix Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix Gold Type BWF events BWF events

YONEX German Open Badminton Championships YONEX/OCBC US Open Championships YONEX-SUNRISE India Grand Prix Oceania Championships

Grand Prix Gold

Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix status

27th Brazil International Badminton Cup

International Challenge

Austrian International Challenge Bahrain International Challenge Denmark International Finnish Open Guatemala International Challenge India International Challenge Iran Fajr International Challenge Kharkov International Maldives International Badminton Challenge MAYBANK Malaysia International Challenge Norwegian International Osaka International Challenge Polish Open International Scottish International Championships Spanish Open Swedish International Stockholm Swiss International 2012

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Tahiti French Polynesia International Challenge VICTOR Indonesia International Challenge Vietnam International Challange XII Italian International XVII Peru Internacional YONEX Belgian International YONEX Bulgarian International Championships YONEX Czech International YONEX Dutch International YONEX Welsh International Badminton Championships Bulgaria Hebar Open

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International Series

37th YONEX Hungarian International 2012 Banuinvest International Croatian International French International FZ Forza Slovenia International Iceland International Internacional Mexicano CANCELLED International Open Morocco Iraqi International Series LI-NING Singapore International Series Li-Ning Sunlight Victorian International Polish Open

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Portuguese International Championships SOTX Auckland International Turkiye International Uganda International VI Suriname International YONEX Estonian International LI NING China Masters LI-NING Singapore Open MAYBANK Malaysia Badminton Open YONEX French Open YONEX Open Japan YONEX-SUNRISE Hong Kong Open YONEX-SUNRISE India Open Denmark Open

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DJARUM Indonesia Open LI NING China Open VICTOR Korea Open YONEX All England Badminton Championships

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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 DewHattens 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 a 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

was

one

of

the

best

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
2000

Men's singles
Pullela Gopichand

Women's singles

Men's doubles
Vincent Lobo Jaseel P. Ismail Sanave Thomas Valiyaveetil Diju Markose Bristow Rupesh Kumar

Women's doubles
Jwala Gutta Shruti Kurian K. Neelima Chowdary D. Swetha

Mixed doubles
Vincent Lobo Madhumita Bisht

2001

Abhinn Shyam Gupta Aparna Popat

2002 Chetan Anand

2003

2004

Anup Sridhar

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Chetan Anand Arvind Bhat Chetan Anand

Saina Nehwal Sayali Gokhale Trupti Murgunde Aditi Mutatkar

Rupesh Kumar Sanave Thomas

Markose Bristow Madhumita Bisht Jaseel P. Ismail Manjusha Kanwar Pullela Gopichand Jwala Gutta Markose Bristow B. R. Jwala Gutta Meenakshi Shruti Kurian Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta Valiyaveetil Diju Shruti Kurian Valiyaveetil Diju Aparna Balan Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta

2010

Arvind Bhat

Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Aparna Balan Prajakta Sawant

Pranav Chopra Prajakta Sawant

Beijing Olympic 2008 Results

Event Mens Singles Mens Doubles Womens Singles Womens Doubles

Gold Lin Dan (CHN)

Silver Lee Chong Wei (MAS)

Bronze Chen Jin (CHN)

Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan (INA) Zhang Ning (CHN) Du Jing and Yu Yang (CHN)

Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng (CHN) Xie Xingfang (CHN) Lee Hyo-jung and Lee Kyungwon (KOR) Lilyana Natsir and Nova Widianto (INA)

Hwang Ji-man and Lee Jaejin (KOR) Maria Kristin Yulianti (INA) Wei Yili and Zhang Yawen (CHN He Hanbin and Yu Yang (CHN)

Mixed Doubles

Lee Hyo-jung and Lee Yongdae (KOR)

Yonex BWF World Championships 2011

Event Mens Singles Lin Dan I II Chong Wei Lee III Jin Chen Peter Hoeg Gade Mens Doubles Yun Cai Haifeng Fu Sung Hyun Ko Yeon Seong Yoo Jae Sung Jung Yong Dae Lee Mohammad Ahsan Bona Septano Womens Singles Womens Doubles Yihan Wang Shao Chieh Cheng Juliane Schenk Xin Wang

Xiaoli Wang Yang Yu

Qing Tian Yunlei Zhao

Miyuki Maeda Satoko Suetsuna Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa

Mixed Doubles

Nan Zhang Yunlei Zhao

Chris Adcock

Chen Xu

Imogen Bankier Jin Ma Tantowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Badminton_Championships 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