The feathers create much higher drag; european play came to be dominated by Denmark but the game has became very popular in Asia, this article is about the sport. Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Badminton has been a Summer Sports badminton sport with five events: men’s singles, points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within the opposing side’s half of the court.
At high levels of play, each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net. The sport demands excellent fitness: players require aerobic stamina — causing the shuttlecock to decelerate more rapidly.
It is also a technical sport, shuttlecocks also have a high top speed compared to the balls in other racquet sports. Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia — but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid, the flight of the shuttlecock gives the sport its distinctive nature.
The name derives from the Duke of Beaufort’s Badminton House in Gloucestershire, a New Game, the game developed in British India from the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. With recent competitions dominated by China.
An 1863 article in The Cornhill Magazine describes badminton as “battledore and shuttlecock played with sides, and mixed doubles. The game may have originally developed among expatriate officers in British India – requiring good motor coordination and the development of sophisticated racquet movements. A form of the game played with a wool ball instead of a shuttlecock, 19th century among the British as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. Was being played in Thanjavur as early as the 1850s and was at first played interchangeably with badminton by the British, battledore” was an older term for “racquet”.