Essay On History Of Badminton

Badminton is one of the games becoming very popular among the youth these days especially since, we have won a bronze medal in Olympics. It is a game played with the help of racquet and a shuttle cock and does not needs to spend a lot of money in it unlike other sports like cricket. It can be played in both the indoors as well as outdoors. The history of game can be traced long back as it resembles the game of battledore & shuttlecock played around two thousand years ago in India, Greece & China. The sport became popular around the world between the 1920s and 1930s when it spread from Britain to Europe and then gradually to North American continent and Asia. It was introduced in the Olympics in 1992. Today, it is played around most of the countries with more than 45 countries as the members of International Badminton Federation and China, Singapore, Malaysia & Canada as the major powerhouse of the game. It is now becoming popular in India and some of the great players that we have produced are P. Gopichand ,P. Padukone, Saina Nehwal, Aparna Popat, P. Kashyap, Chetan Anand, Jwala Gutta, Aswini Ponappa and others.

It is played by hitting the shuttle back & forth around and over the net and needs at least one player on both the sides of the court and maximum two players on each side of the court.

Now to play badminton there are certain basic rules of the game that a player must know in order to play the game properly and fairly. Some of them are:

 The player who serves the cork or the shuttle must perform it with an underhand service. If the shuttle hits the net during the service it is considered as wrong service however, if the shuttle touches the net during the play it would still be considered playable and