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🏸 BadmintonIn the queue
The world's fastest racket sport, and India's favourite society-court argument.
- Players
- singles or doubles
- Game to
- 21 rally points
- A match
- best of 3
- Cap
- 30 points
What is badminton?
Badminton looks gentle from the parking lot and is anything but: a smashed shuttlecock leaves the racket faster than any object in mainstream sport, then dies to a feather-drop at the net two shots later. The game is all deception - every stroke is a question about whether you are lying.
It is played wherever a net can be strung: society courts, school grounds, indoor halls, terraces on a windless evening. Doubles is the social default, singles the cardio test you regret volunteering for.
Common rules
How it's played.
- A rally starts with an underarm serve, struck below the waist, travelling diagonally into the opposite service court.
- The shuttle may not bounce: every shot is taken on the volley, and a shuttle landing inside the court lines ends the rally.
- Serve from the right court when your score is even, the left when it is odd.
- Touching the net, reaching over it, or a shuttle striking the ceiling loses the rally in most halls.
- In doubles, only the serving side's positions are fixed at serve; after that, anyone takes any shot - there is no alternate-hit rule.
Scoring
How it's counted.
- Rally scoring: every rally is a point to whoever wins it, serving or not.
- Games go to 21, win by 2, capped at 30 (29-29 means next point wins).
- Matches are best of 3 games; players change ends between games and at 11 in the third.
Ways your crew plays it.
Singles
A narrower court and a running battle: fitness matters as much as strokes.
Doubles
The full-width court, flat fast exchanges, and the eternal front-back vs side-side rotation argument.
Mixed doubles
The most tactical format: service battles at the net decide almost everything.
On Tashn
Badminton on Tashn: in the queue.
Badminton's rally scoring maps to Tashn the same way table tennis does: points per rally, games to 21, matches above them, with the live wall and rankings on top. Court booking and rotating doubles pairs are the interesting extra wrinkles an adda brings.
It is queued; interest decides the order.
One tap, no sign-in. Votes from inside the app count for more.
Quick answers
Badminton, in three questions.
How many points do you play badminton to?
21 rally points, win by 2, capped at 30 (at 29-29 the next point wins). Matches are best of 3 games.
Can the shuttle bounce in badminton?
No - every shot is taken on the volley. A shuttle landing inside the court lines ends the rally for whoever hit it there.
Can I track badminton scores and leaderboards for my society court?
Soon - badminton is in Tashn's queue, and the button on this page is a vote to move it up. The same live scoring, reactions and leaderboards already run for foosball today, free in the browser.
Names worth arguing about.
Lin Dan
China'Super Dan': two Olympic golds and every major title the sport offers, twice over.
WikipediaViktor Axelsen
DenmarkBack-to-back Olympic champion (Tokyo, Paris) and the reference men's singles player of his era.
WikipediaPrakash Padukone
India1980 All England champion; the man who put Indian badminton on the world map.
WikipediaP. V. Sindhu
IndiaWorld champion (2019) with two Olympic medals; India's biggest badminton star.
WikipediaSaina Nehwal
IndiaOlympic bronze in 2012 and India's first badminton world No. 1.
Wikipedia
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