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.

The exception, which often causes confusion to newer players, is that the doubles court has a shorter serve-length dimension.

Athletic jump smashes, where players jump upwards for a steeper smash angle, are a common and spectacular element of elite men's doubles play.

For most players, many calls ( bids, doubles and redoubles, and sometimes even passes ) are not made with the intention that they become the final contract, but to describe the strength and distribution of the player's hand, so that the partnership can reach an informed conclusion on their best contract, and / or to obstruct the opponents ' bidding.

* List of Major League Baseball players with 400 doubles

This win made Hewitt, Pat Rafter, and Kafelnikov the only active ATP players to win a Grand Slam singles and doubles title during their career.

* List of Major League Baseball players with 400 doubles

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players ( singles ) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles ).

This involves three players, with one person playing a doubles team.

" Australian doubles ", another informal and unsanctioned form of tennis, is played with similar rules to the Canadian doubles style, only in this version, players rotate court position after each game.

Common tournament configurations include men's singles, women's singles, and doubles, where two players play on each side of the net.

Racquetball games can be played with two, three or four players, with doubles or singles matches being most common.

Rugby Fives is played between two players ( singles ) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles ), the aim being to hit the ball above a ' bar ' across the front wall in such a way that the opposition cannot return it before a second bounce.

Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players ( or in doubles 4 players on court at a time ) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball.

* List of Major League Baseball players with 400 doubles

* List of Major League Baseball players with 400 doubles

The main tournament consists of five different event championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for senior, junior, and wheelchair players.

* List of Major League Baseball players with 400 doubles

In double trigger designs, it is often possible to pull both triggers at once, firing both barrels simultaneously, though this is generally not recommended as it doubles the recoil, battering both shooter and shotgun.

The plots generally resembled those typically found in other works of the secret agent / adventure genre, ranging from sabotage aboard a space station to android doubles of the President of the United States, but stand out for their clever twists and lack of " dumbing down " often found in similar juvenile literature.

The Bull Helmet increases Wario's strength and doubles the length of his shoulder charge attack, allowing him to smash through blocks more easily, gives Wario the ability to stick onto ceilings and in mid-air, perform a " butt stomp " into the ground which stuns nearby enemies and breaks through blocks underneath him.

A world level player in men's doubles as well as men's singles, he was known for the ferocity of his jumping smash.

thumb The walking stick in the middle of photo just left of the three arrows and right of the Luzon shield, doubles as an improvised weapon coming apart into two pieces, both with fixed blades on a long and short stick.

He also hit 268 home runs to go with 449 doubles and 96 triples, excellent power for a middle infielder of his era, and was considered by some the finest base stealer of his generation ( 689 steals at greater than 80 % success rate ).

Since there are two ways to achieve any result that is not a double roll ( e. g., a result of 43 can be achieved by rolling either a 3-4 or a 4-3 ), while doubles can only be made in one way, the middle roll in this game is not 62 but rather 54, despite the fact that ten possible results sit above and below the former, while there are twelve possible results above and eight below the latter.

Every octave jump doubles the rate of vibration ( i. e. C < sub > 5 </ sub > vibrates twice as fast as middle C ( C < sub > 4 </ sub >) and soprano C ( C < sub > 6 </ sub >) two octaves higher than middle C vibrates four times as fast ).

* Configuration interaction doubles, a variational quantum-chemical method for calculating partly correlated ground states

Therefore, the sunbeam hitting the ground at a 30 ° angle spreads the same amount of light over twice as much area ( if we imagine the sun shining from the south at noon, the north-south width doubles ; the east-west width does not ).

The boathouse now consists of a large ground floor area with racking spaces for singles, doubles, fours and eight man boats.

González was 10th in the 1998 AL in batting average, second in slugging, fourth in OPS, 6th in hits ( 193 ), 4th in total bases ( 382 ), first in doubles ( 50 ), tied for fourth in home runs ( 45 ), first in RBI ( 157 ) in 154 games, tied for 8th in OPS + ( 149 ), second in extra-base hits ( 97 ), tied for third in sac flies ( 11 ), tied for sixth in intentional walks ( 9 ) and tied for third in double plays ground into ( 20 ).

The current tunnel is in the South-West corner of the ground, and doubles as an entrance for the emergency services.

His residence also doubles as a temple and training ground where he teaches his daughter and several other students.

A well maintained football ground ( which also doubles up as a cricket ground ), a basketball court and a volleyball court are situated within the V. E. S.

Upper Houses are divided between double rooms and singles, with about sixty percent of the population being in doubles.

The area between a doubles sideline and the nearest singles sideline is called the doubles alley, which is considered playable in doubles play.

Upper Houses are divided between double rooms and singles, with about sixty percent of the population being in doubles.

Along with the short line, service line, and side wall these lines define the doubles box, where the non-serving doubles partner stands during the serve ; 36 inches from the side wall is another set of lines which, along with the short line and the service line, define an area that the server must not enter if he wishes to hit a drive serve between himself and the nearest side wall.

* In free space the path loss increases with 20 dB per decade ( one decade is when the distance between the transmitter and the receiver increases ten times ) or 6 dB per octave ( one octave is when the distance between the transmitter and the receiver doubles ).

His journey by sea to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji took him via Jamaica, where Albert played doubles tennis partnered with a black man, which was unusual at the time and taken locally as a display of equality between races.

The 11-time German champion and 12-time German cup winner won a remarkable nine back-to-back doubles between 1994 and 2002.

When observed over a short period of time, the components of both optical doubles and long-period visual binaries will appear to be moving in straight lines ; for this reason, it can be difficult to distinguish between these two possibilities.

To the existing distinction between major and ordinary or minor doubles, Pope Clement VIII added two more ranks, those of first-class or second-class doubles.

Adding and subtracting SI prefixes creates multiples and submultiples ; however, as the unit is squared, the order of magnitude difference between units doubles from their comparable linear units.

Philosophical texts have influenced the series as well: many similarities exist between Amber and Plato's Republic ( see the Allegory of the cave ) and the classical problems of metaphysics, virtuality, solipsism, logic, possible worlds, probability, doubles and essences are also repeatedly reflected on.

Eriksson won 17 major trophies as a manager, with a variety of league clubs in Sweden, Portugal and Italy, between 1979 and 2000, and became the first manager to win league-and-cup doubles in three different countries.

Williams returned to the competition in the doubles match of the Fed Cup ´ s World Group II tie between USA and Belarus that was held in Worcester, MA on 4 – 5 February.

The game is played between two players ( singles ) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles ), the aim being to hit the ball above a ' bar ' across the front wall in such a way that the opposition cannot return it before a second bounce.