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Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).
Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks , made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...
Viktor Axelsen (born 4 January 1994) is a Danish badminton player. He is a two-time Olympic Champion , two-time World Champion , and four-time European Champion . He has held the No. 1 BWF World Ranking in men's singles for a total of 183 weeks (as of August 2024), and he is the current world No. 4. [ 2 ]
Hu Zhe'an (Chinese: 胡哲安; pinyin: Hú Zhé'ān; born 27 July 2006) is a Chinese badminton player. [2] He clinched the boys' singles gold medal at the 2024 World Juniors. [3] He is also a two-time Asian Junior champion, having won in 2023 [4] and 2024. [5] Hu won his first senior title at the 2024 Baoji China Masters. [6]
Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (born 2 August 1995) is an Indonesian badminton player who was ranked world number 1 in the men's doubles by the Badminton World Federation. Considered as one of the best players of his generation, he won the men's doubles titles at the All England Open in 2017 and 2018 ; the World Superseries Finals in 2017 ; and the ...
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, [11] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, [20] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.
Carolina María Marín Martín (born 15 June 1993) is a Spanish badminton player. She is an Olympic Champion, three-time World Champion, and eight-time European Champion. She once held the No. 1 BWF World Ranking in women's singles for a total of 66 weeks.