Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players ( singles ) or two opposing pairs ( doubles ), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net.

Badminton is also played outdoors as a casual recreational activity, often as a garden or beach game.

Although it appears clear that Badminton House, Gloucestershire, owned by the Duke of Beaufort, has given its name to the sports, it is unclear when and why the name was adopted.

The following information is a simplified summary of badminton rules based on the BWF Statutes publication, Laws of Badminton.

The minimum height for the ceiling above the court is not mentioned in the Laws of Badminton.

The Badminton World Federation ( BWF ) is the internationally recognized governing body of the sport.

Badminton is frequently compared to tennis.

Currently, the Olympic event is consider a CCI ***, a rank lower than Badminton which is a CCI ****.

The very highest level of competition is the CCI ****, and with only six such competitions in the world ( Badminton, Burghley, Rolex Kentucky, Adelaide, Luhmuhlen Horse Trials, and the Stars of Pau ) it is the ultimate aim of many riders.

The town is also home to Reading University Badminton Captain 2010 / 11 James Goodman, who successfully led the squad to safety during a potentially perilous campaign.

The Portuguese Badminton Federation ( Federação Portuguesa de Badminton ) is headquartered in Caldas da Rainha.

The family seat was once Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire but is now Badminton House near Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire.

It is home to Varsity Badminton in the fall, JV and Thirds Basketball in the winter, and is the designated indoor practice space for Varsity and JV Softball in the spring.

Loughton Lodge is home to the National Badminton Centre, health club, Girl Guides site and a small gated development of luxury apartments.

Scotstoun has recently undergone new housing development and is also the site of the new Scotstoun Leisure Centre, opened in 1994, hosting Scotstoun Stadium, an international athletics venue, the Scottish National Badminton Academy, and a 25 metre swimming pool used by the City of Glasgow Swimming Team.

Having linked its General Studies classes with Badminton School since 1972, it admitted girls to the Sixth Form in 1987 and is now fully coeducational.

The Mullingar Tennis and Badminton Club is located in the heart of the town and includes 8 outdoor tennis courts and a hall containing 2 badminton courts

The Center is home to the Recreational Sports Office which organizes and host intramural sports leagues and club sports teams in sports such as: Volleyball, Basketball, Flag Football, Cricket, Badminton, Indoor Soccer, Pool, Ultimate Frisbee and Air Hockey.

The Badminton World Federation had charged the four pairs with “ not using one ’ s best efforts to win a match ” and “ conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport .”

Badminton is one of Indonesia's most successful sports.

Though only occasionally chosen by the Indonesian Badminton Association to play international events in men's doubles, Kusharjanto has won some, most notably the Badminton Asia Championships with Bambang Suprianto in 2001 and with Sigit Budiarto in 2004.

While the campus has separate sports fields for Football, Cricket, Basketball, Volleyball, Tennis, Badminton, most of the hostels has its own table tennis and badminton court.

Susanti was the most dominant women's singles player in the first half of the 1990s, winning the All-England in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994, the World Badminton Grand Prix finale five times consecutively from 1990 to 1994 as well as in 1996, and the IBF World Championships in 1993.

Badminton was first held in 1949 by the 10th Duke of Beaufort in order to let British riders train for future international events and was advertised as " the most important horse event in Britain ".

After a period at Alderley Edge in Cheshire and a brief sojourn in Bath, he and Alvilde resided after 1974 at Essex House on the Badminton estate, also in Gloucestershire, while he worked most days in William Thomas Beckford's library at Lansdown Crescent.

She was most associated with the sport of badminton, and served as the president of the Philippine Badminton Association.

The most dramatic changes have occurred in the south-east of the village at the boundary with Coalpit Heath, in 1928 Beesmoor Road was constructed through farmland, connecting Badminton Road, the main Yate-Bristol thoroughfare, with the Woodend area of Frampton Cotterell.

Green began riding at the age of four and is most well known for winning the Badminton Horse Trials a record six times, on six different horses: Be Fair ( 1973 ), Wideawake ( 1976 ), George ( 1977 ), Killaire ( 1979 ), Regal Realm ( 1983 ) and Beagle Bay ( 1984 ).

Zhang's other titles with Gao included three victories ( 2001, 2003, and 2006 ) at the prestigious All-England Championships ; the Badminton Asia Championships in 2002 ; the China Masters in 2005 ; and the China ( 2002, 2003 ), Japan ( 2003 ), Indonesia ( 2004 ), Malaysia ( 2004, 2006 ), Thailand ( 2005 ), Singapore ( 2005 ), and German ( 2006 ) Opens.

The same year, Gopichand led the State Badminton team of Andhra Pradesh to win the prestigious Rahmatulla Cup.

The proudest moments of Gopichand's lifetime arrived in the year 2001, when he recreated the history by winning the prestigious 2001 All England Open Badminton Championships at London.

Independent schools include the prestigious girls ' schools Badminton, which has taught pupils such as Indira Gandhi, Princess Haya of Jordan and the daughter of the Sultan of Brunei ; Red Maids ', the oldest surviving girls ' school in England.

Golden Willow competed in the prestigious Badminton Horse Trials in 1949, the first year of the event.

In addition, the Colonel By Badminton team has done well in Junior and Senior events. The Colonel By Nordic Ski team has also done well in the past finishing 4th last year in Junior Combined and now looking for the NCSSAA championships for the Senior Boys.

Indonesian badminton athletes have played in Indonesia Open Badminton Championship, All England Open Badminton Championships, and many international events, including the Summer Olympics and won Olympic gold medals since badminton was made an Olympic sport in 1992.

In Athens 2004 Brazil competed in all but ten events ( Archery, Badminton, Canoeing-Slalom, Cycling-Track, Softball, Gymnastics-Trampoline, Baseball, Water Polo, Hockey and Weightlifting ).

She also won numerous Badminton Grand Prix Series events and five Badminton World Cups.

The Badminton Horse Trials is a three-day event, one of only six annual Concours Complet International ( CCI ) Four Star **** events as classified by the Fédération Équestre Internationale ( FEI ), which takes place in April or May each year in the park of Badminton House, the seat of the Duke of Beaufort in Gloucestershire, England.

The Land Rover Freelander Burghley Horse Trial is classified by the FEI as one of the six leading three day events in the world ( the others being the Badminton Horse Trials, the Rolex Kentucky Three Day, the Australian International Three Day Event, the Luhmühlen Horse Trials and the Étoiles de Pau ).

Badminton is also normally used for charity events ; such as ' 24-hour badminton ' where students go on shifts to play badminton continuously for 24 hours and stay sleeping at school.

In first 2 years from 2009 to 2010, as indicated in book " Chinese JJJ Rules & judgement ", 5 formal events included in Chinese JJJ just similar as in Tennis games: Men's & Women's Single, Men's & Women's Double, Mixed Double. Then in Oct. of 2011, Team Game Rules was published on official website www. 100helps. cn by Chinese JJJ Association ( CJA ), having 3 players on each side, and longer court as Badminton Court's Outside Bottom Line.

Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics included the four events held at the previous Games ( men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles ) as well as a fifth event: mixed doubles.

Throughout the year, there are a number of events, ( Badminton, Netball, Football ect.

Over the last 10 years, however, Glasgow and Scotland have also staged World, Commonwealth, European, or British events in all 17 sports proposed for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, including the World Badminton Championships in 1997.