Badminton

Index
S.No. Title
1. Certificate
2. Acknowledgement
3. Introduction
4. History
5. Badminton
6. General Rules Of Badminton
7. Equipments
8. Fundamental Skills Of Badminton
9. Badminton Terminology
10. Sports Awards
11. Important Tournaments
12. Bibliography
 Certificate
This is to certify that this ‘Physical Education
Investigatory project’ on the topic ‘BADMINTON’
by student name by class XII-A under the guidance of
teacher name in particular fulfillment of the
curriculum of central board of secondary education
(CBSE) leading to the award of annual examination of
the year 20__ - 20__

Teacher-In-charge External examiner

 Acknowledgement
· I have taken efforts in this project. However, it
would not have been possible without the kind
support and help of many individuals.
· I would like to thank my principal and school for
providing me the guidance which is required to do my
project.
· I am highly indebted to my Physical Education
teacher, for her invaluable guidance which has
sustained my efforts in all the stages of this project.
· I would also like to thank my parents for their
continuous support and encouragement.
· My thanks and appreciations also go to my fellow
classmates in developing the project and to the
people who have willingly helped me out with their
abilities.
 Introduction
The game of Badminton started in England, but it
flourished in India. This game was started around
1870 in Poona (now Pune) in Maharashtra. The Indian
officers in the British Army made its beginning from
that city. This game was initially known as ‘Poona’
game. A british national duke of New Ford held this
game in his city, namely, Badminton (Glustershire) in
England in the year 1873. This game was subsequently
called Badminton Association was constitute in England
in 1895.
 History
The International Badminton Federation was formed in
1934. Sir George Thomas was the first chairman of
IBF. World-class Badminton competition is known as
‘Thomas cup’. Thomas cup was first held for world
champion men in 1948. The Uber Cup for a
championship was started from 1957. It was included
in Asian Games in 1962. Badminton Association of
India (BAI) was established in Calcutta (now Kolkata)
in 1934. All India Badminton Championships are held
under the auspices of this very association. The
maiden National Badminton championship was held in
1936 which was won by Vijay Madwakar. Prakash
Padukone won the national award continuously for nine
times, from 1971 to 1979. The winner predecessor to
Prakash Padukone was Nandu Natekar who had won it
six times. Syed Modi won this award continuously for
eight times. From 1980 to 1987. Badminton was
included in the Olympic Games in 1992. Prakash
Padukone won all England Championship in 1980, and
Pulela Gopichand won it in 2001. These two
personalities reached the highest peak of Indian
Badminton.
 Badminton

Badminton is a request sport played by either two

opposing players or two opposing pairs, on 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.
Since 1992, badminton has been an Olympic sport with
five events: men’s and women’s singles, men’s,
women’s and mixed doubles. Badminton’s highest
governing body is the International Badminton
Federation (IBF) and has about 140 member nations.
The IBF estimates that about 200 million people play
the game worldwide.
 General rules of
Badminton
§ Playing court
The badminton court is rectangular and divided into 2
halves by a net. The length of the court is 44 ft. the
width of the court for double is 20 ft and in singles
this width is reduced to 17 ft.
Post
There will be 2 posts with height as 1.55m above
floor.
§ Net
Color of net should be dark and its mesh should be 15-
20mm. width of net should be 760mm.
§ Toss
The winner of toss decides the end of court or to
serve first.
§ Scoring
When the serve serves, the shuttlecock must pass
over the short service line on the opponent’s court or
it will count as a fault. There will be best of three
games. The winner of 2 games will be winner. Each
game consists of 21 points. This applies to both
doubles as well as singles.
§ Players
A single is played with 1 player on each side and in
doubles it is 2 players on each side.
§ Interval
Between 1st and 2nd game there will be an interval
between 2nd and 3rd game should not exceed 5
minutes.
 Equipments
§ Rackets
A racket is usually made of steel, aluminum, and
graphite. The ideal length is 27 inches and weight 85
to 140 gm for rackets.
§ Shuttlecock
A shuttlecock is a high drag projectile, with an open
conical shape; the cone is formed from sixteen
overlapping feathers embedded into a rounded cork
base. The weight of a shuttle should be 4.73-5.5gm.
The feathers should have a length of 62-72mm.
 Fundamental skills of
Badminton
§ Grip of racket (right-hand grip and left-hand grip)
§ Stance (defensive and offensive)
§ Foot work
§ Footwork on guard stance
§ Pivot
§ Forehand return
§ Back court return
§ Service
Short service
Long service
Receiver in service
§ Strokes
Forehand stroke
Overhead stroke
Net stroke
 Badminton
terminology

§ Back gallery
Area included between the long service line and back
line.
§ Service court
Portion of court from where service is delivered.
Rally
Sending shuttle over the net.
§ Server
Player who puts shuttle in play.
§ Match point
The point which won ny server makes him winner of
match.
§ Inning
 Time during which a player holds service.
§ Rotation
In doubles, players keep changing their position
during the play.
 Sports awards
Arjuna awards
S.No. year Name of
the
award
1. 1961 Nandu Natekar
2. 1962 Meena Shah
3. 1965 Dinesh Khanna
4. 1967 Sudesh Goel
5. 1969 Dipu Ghosh
6. 1970 Damayanti
V.Tambay
7. 1971 Shobha Moorthy
8. 1972 Prakash
Padukone, J
Shriniwasan
9. 1973 A Karim
10. 1974 Raman Ghosh
11. 1975 Devendar Ahuja
12. 1976 Ami Ghai, A Sam
 Christ Das
13. 1977 Kanwal Thakur
Singh
14. 1980 Syed Modi
15 1982 Partho Ganguli,
Madhumita
Goswami
16. 1984 D. Rajaraman
17. 1991 Rajeev Bagga
18. 1996 Sandeep Singh
Dhillon
19. 1999 Pullela Gopichand
20. 2000 George Thomas
21. 2003 Madasu
Shriniwas Rao
22. 2004 Abhinna Shyam
Gupta
23. 2005 Aparna Popat
24. 2006 Chetan Anand,
Rohit Bhakar
(Disabled
Category)
25. 2007 Anup Sridhar
26. 2009 Sania Nehwal,
Pural D
Parmas(Diabled
Category)
27. 2011 Jwala Gutta
28. 2012 Ashwani
Ponappa,
Parupalli
Kashyap
29. 2013 P.V Sindhu
Padamshri awards
S.No. year Name of
the award
1. 1977 Meena Shah
2. 1982 Prakash
Padukone
Rajiv Gandhi khel rattan award
S.No. year Name of
the award
1. 2000 P.Gopi Chand
2. 2009 Sania Nehwal
 Important
tournaments
S.No. Tournaments
1. Thomas Cup (World Team Men)
2. Uber Cup (World Team Women)
3. Wills World Cup
4. European Cup
5. Konika Cup
6. Yonex Cup
7. Narang Cup (National Junior Team Men)
8. Major’s Cup
9. China Cup
10. Olympic Challenge Cup (National Women)
11. 555 World Cup
12. Shafi Qureshi Cup (National Junior Tean
Women)
13. All England Championship
14. Asian Games
15 National Badminton Championship
16. World Cup
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