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.

At high levels of play, especially in singles, the sport demands excellent fitness: players require aerobic stamina, agility, explosive strength, speed and precision.

Spinning netshots are especially important for high level singles players.

The WCC has multiple divisions, including a singles finger-shooting category for competitive players ( Adult Singles ), novices ( Recreational ), and younger players ( Intermediate, 11-14 yrs ; Junior, 6-10 yrs ).

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.

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

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

In the four Grand Slam tournaments, the singles draws are limited to 128 players for each gender.

Another distinguishing feature is the number of players in the singles draw.

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.

During his 14-year tour career, he won 14 Grand Slam singles titles and became recognized as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

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.

This view was opposed by another group of players which included eight former national singles champions.

In 1979, the first year continental European players participated, the format was changed to the 28-match version in use today, with 8 foursomes / four-ball matches on the first two days and 12 singles matches on the last day.

In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24.

She is the only singles player ( male or female ) to have achieved a Calendar Year Grand Slam while playing on four different types of tennis courts ( Rebound Ace, grass, clay and DecoTurf ), as the Calendar Year Grand Slams won by other players before her occurred when the Australian and US Opens were still played on grass.

Already regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, her 30 Grand Slam titles ties her for eighth on the all-time list: 15 in singles, 13 in women's doubles, and 2 in mixed doubles.

Among active players, male or female, she holds the most Major titles amid singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.

With 43 career singles titles, Williams, along with her sister Serena, lead active players on the WTA Tour.

This will be the third ELO compilation that presents a chronological run-through of ELO's singles / songs following US compilations Olé ELO in 1976 and Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra in 1995.

The four disciplines of men's singles, ladies ' singles, pair skating and ice dancing will also appear as part of a team event for the first time at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

* 2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.

They decide what the albums themes will be, create the image for the artist, decide which songs will be singles and have the final say on every single song's completion.

* January 21 – " Relax " reaches number one in the UK singles chart, despite the BBC ban ; it will spend a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40.

* April 4 – RCA Victor Records announces that it will release all pop singles in mono and stereo simultaneously, the first record company to do so.

The three band members hand created 178 sleeves each for the physical singles, each of which will be available to win in different competitions being run through the band's website.

Is determined to make one more vigorous effort, to sell his patent right for some of his modern inventions later singles out the vapor engine, and if he does not now succeed, he will give the matter up, and return to Orford, to spend his days in quiet .” Morey did not find a buyer, and as he was then in his late 60s, it made sense to stop traveling up and down the east coast and call it quits.

Initially, only the men's singles is contested ; the women's singles will begin in 1897.

The current no. 1 on the IRMA singles chart is " This Is Love " by will. i. am with the no. 1 album being Ceremonials by Florence and the Machine.

It has been announced that they will be supporting Gorillaz on the North American leg of their 2010 ' Escape to Plastic Beach ' World tour., In recent times ( as of summer 2012 ) N. E. R. D haven't confirmed any tour dates or new singles.

This tool will also determine if there are any singles wards ( see below ) or special language wards that serve the area.

At her appearance on Habbo Hotel on 8 March 2007 McIntosh confirmed that the repackaged edition will feature remixes of the singles released from Tightrope as well as the bonus track " Catching My Breath ".

A curious fact to note: In countries like Colombia, Chile and Venezuela, the other songs that were not singles, frequently sounded in the musical pattern of Radio Stations, and this, on its own initiative the same announcers and producers of radio programs as a way to publicize others good-songs on the album that will wouldn't sound like promotionals singles in the radio, this helped a lot to raise awareness the album in these countries and motivating the public to go to buy the album quickly

In the interview, Salman informed that in India the book will be published by Jaico Publishing House and will be accompanied by a free cd which includes two singles, " Love Can You Take Me Back " and " Bulleya / Lonely Heart " and also including two other tracks, " Sayonee " and " Meri Awaz Suno ".

In modern usage, Jewish singles will say that they are looking for their bashert, meaning they are looking for that person who will complement them perfectly, and whom they will complement perfectly.

Old 16-inch turntables are sometimes still found in radio broadcast studios, but it is now very unlikely that any disc larger than 12-inch will ever be played on them. 7-inch and 5-inch singles.

Although pop music is often seen as oriented towards the singles charts it is not the sum of all chart music, which has always contained songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs, while pop music as a genre is usually seen as existing and developing separately.

Super singles are also often used on the steer axle in Australia to allow greater loading over the steer axle.

In the UK the term glitter rock was most often used to refer to the extreme version of glam pursued by Gary Glitter and his support musicians the Glitter Band, who between them achieved eighteen top ten singles in the UK between 1972 and 1976.

Due to an increase in many businesses requiring their employees to travel, singles, often young professionals, find online dating websites to be the perfect answer to their " problem ", states Brym and Lenton.

AM Top 40 radio, in particular, became wary of a group that had scored a hit with a song that contained thinly-veiled drug references and whose singles were often deemed too controversial, so Jefferson Airplane never again enjoyed the kind of widespread radio support they would have needed to score more Top Ten hits.

The United States Open Tennis Championships, often referred to as Flushing Meadows, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U. S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881.

Several subsequent singles included Summer performing with the group, but she often denied singing on any of the Marvos releases.

At first, cassette singles would often have one song on each side of the cassette, matching the arrangement of vinyl records, but eventually, cassette maxi-singles, containing more than two songs, became more popular.

The principal types of electrodes are: 1 ) simple solid conductors, such as discs and needles ( singles or arrays, often insulated except for the tip ), 2 ) tracings on printed circuit boards, also insulated except for the tip, and 3 ) hollow tubes filled with an electrolyte, such as glass pipettes filled with potassium chloride solution or another electrolyte solution.

Early singles and even their sleeves harked back to early Factory Records bands such as New Order and The Wake, with many tracks often featuring sequencers and samples.

None of these bands played exclusively rhythm and blues, often relying on a variety of sources, including Brill Building and girl group songs for their hit singles, but it remained at the core of their early albums.

Throughout the remainder of 1975 and 1976, Slade toured the US, often with other bands such as Aerosmith, ZZ Top and Black Sabbath, only returning to the UK for TV performances of new singles.

To help publicize these singles, which proved to be successful in many discos across the world, Divine went on television shows like Good Morning America as well as a series of tours in which he combined his musical performances with comedic stunts and routines that often played up to his characters ' stereotype of being " trashy " and outrageous.

He then singles out a female in the vicinity and approaches her at a rapid walking pace while emitting repetitive quiet notes, often bowing and turning as he comes closer.

During the tour for the album, Nastanovich stated on the Slow Century DVD, the band would often not work out a setlist before shows, opting for drug and alcohol fueled jams over hit singles.

Some box sets collect together previously released boxes of singles or albums by a music artist, and often collect the complete discography of an artist such as Pink Floyd's Oh, by the Way.

More recently Blur announced via the NME website that they would reunite every so often and record more singles, preferably on 7 inch.

Hitters who focus on hitting singles rather than doubles or home runs are often called " contact hitters ".

Contact hitters who rely on positioning their hits well and having fast running speed to achieve singles are often called " slap hitters ".

Most often, singles are not reported ; rather, the total number of hits, doubles, triples, and home runs is reported ; then, hits minus these " extra base hits " yields the number of singles.

Critics observed a general slowing in Hobbs ' scoring throughout the season, and he scored more often in singles than in his earlier years, when he tried to hit the ball further.

Their sound is often likened to that of The Jam and The Kinks ' early records as well as The Clash's first album and early singles.

Terrorvision have covered many songs, often as B-sides to their singles.