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The straight low serve is used most frequently, in an attempt to prevent the opponents gaining the attack immediately. Flick serves are used to prevent the opponent from anticipating the low serve and attacking it decisively. At high levels of play, doubles rallies are extremely fast. Men's doubles are the most aggressive form of badminton ...
Ong excelled in badminton during his school days and held the Sarawak singles and doubles titles from 1938 to 1941. [7] [9] He moved to Singapore after World War II, where he played for Devonshire and Marigold Badminton Party, [10] both well-established rivals to Mayflower Badminton Party, [11] which produced Wong Peng Soon and a number of other prominent badminton players of that era.
James was the national badminton coach from 1982 to 1985 and Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) High Performance Director from 2010 to 2012. [3]
Japan had looked a genuine threat to China's dominance coming into the Tokyo Olympics but despite having home-court advantage and nearly twice as many top-five players in their ranks the host ...
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A shuttlecock (also called a birdie or shuttle) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape formed by feathers or plastic (or a synthetic alternative) embedded into a rounded cork (or rubber) base. The shuttlecock's shape makes it extremely aerodynamically stable. Regardless of initial orientation, it ...
The BWF World Tour is a Grade 2 badminton tournament series, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It is a competition open to the top world ranked players in singles (men's and women's) and doubles (men's, women's and mixed). [1]
Sepak takraw, or Sepaktakraw, [1] also called buka ball, kick volleyball or foot volleyball, is a team sport.It is played with a ball made of rattan or plastic between two teams of two to four players on a court resembling a badminton court.