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Badminton court, isometric view. The court is rectangular and divided into halves by a net. Courts are usually marked for both singles and doubles play, although badminton rules permit a court to be marked for singles only. [14] The doubles court is wider than the singles court, but both are of the same length.
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The original scoring system in badminton dates back to as early as 1873. [1] A match or rubber is decided by the best of three games. Each game is played to 15 points in the case of men's singles and any doubles games. In the case of ladies' singles, a game is played to 11 points.
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Crossminton, previously known as Speed Badminton, is a racket game that combines elements from different sports like badminton, squash and tennis. It is played without any net and has no prescribed playground, so it can be executed on tennis courts, streets, beaches, fields or gyms.
The 2025 BWF Continental Circuit is a Grade 3 badminton tournaments in 2025 organized by each continental confederation under the auspices of the BWF. The circuit consists of 70 tournaments, [1] which are divided into three levels: International Challenge (27 tournaments) International Series (24 tournaments) Future Series (19 tournaments).
The badminton tournaments at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place between 24 July and 2 August 2021. A total of 172 athletes (86 male and 86 female players) competed in five events: men's singles , men's doubles , women's singles , women's doubles , and mixed doubles .
Badminton was added to the Commonwealth Games program in 1966, as an optional sport. The sport was chosen to replace lawn bowls, due the lack of facilities at Jamaica. Having this status until the 1994 edition, when it became a mandatory sport.