Legal guidelines – Badminton
PART II
SECTION 1 A
LAWS OF BADMINTON
DEFINITIONS
Participant Any particular person taking part in Badminton.
Match The essential contest in Badminton between opposing sides every of 1 or two gamers.
Singles A match the place there may be one participant on every of the opposing sides.
Doubles A match the place there are two gamers on every of the opposing sides.
Serving facet The facet having the best to serve.
Receiving facet The facet opposing the serving facet.
Rally A sequence of a number of strokes beginning with the service, till the shuttle ceases to be in
play.
Stroke A motion of the participant’s racket with an intention to hit the shuttle.
The clauses in italics apply to Para-badminton solely.
1. COURT AND COURT EQUIPMENT
1.1 The court docket shall be a rectangle marked out with strains 40 mm large as proven in Diagram A.
1.1.1 The court docket for Wheelchair Badminton shall be as proven in Diagrams D and E,
respectively.
1.1.2 For Standing Badminton lessons taking part in half-court the court docket for singles shall be as
proven in Diagram F.
1.2 The strains marking out the court docket shall be simply distinguishable and ideally be colored white or
yellow.
1.3 All of the strains shall type a part of the realm which they outline.
1.4 The posts shall be 1.55 metres in top from the floor of the court docket and shall stay vertical
when the online is strained as offered in Legislation 1.10.
1.5 The posts shall be positioned on the doubles facet strains as in Diagram A regardless of whether or not
singles or doubles is being performed. The posts or its helps shall not lengthen into the court docket past
the facet strains.
1.6 The web shall be manufactured from tremendous twine of darkish color and even thickness with a mesh of not lower than
l5 mm and less than 20 mm.
1.7 The web shall be 760 mm in depth and at the least 6.1 metres large.
1.8 The highest of the online shall be edged with a 75 mm white tape doubled over a twine or cable operating
via the tape. This tape shall relaxation upon the twine or cable.
1.9 The twine or cable shall be stretched firmly, flush with the highest of the posts.
1.10 The highest of the online from the floor of the court docket shall be 1.524 metres on the centre of the court docket and 1.55 metres over the facet strains for doubles.
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For Wheelchair Badminton this clause is experimental till and together with the Para-badminton
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1.11 There shall be no gaps between the ends of the online and the posts. If vital, the complete depth of the
web on the ends shall be tied to the posts.
DIAGRAM A
Notice: (1) Diagonal size of full court docket = 14.723m
(2) Court docket as proven above can be utilized for each singles and doubles play
(3) ** Elective testing marks as proven in Diagram B.
2. SHUTTLE
2.1 The shuttle shall be manufactured from pure and / or artificial supplies. From no matter materials the
shuttle is made, the flight traits typically shall be just like these produced by a pure
feathered shuttle with a cork base coated by a skinny layer of leather-based.
2.2 Feathered Shuttle
2.2.1 The shuttle shall have 16 feathers fastened within the base.
2.2.2 The feathers shall have a uniform size between 62 mm to 70 mm when measured from the tip to the highest of the bottom.
2.2.3 The ideas of the feathers shall lie on a circle with a diameter from 58 mm to 68 mm.
2.2.4 The feathers shall be mounted firmly with thread or different appropriate materials.
2.2.5 The bottom shall be 25 mm to twenty-eight mm in diameter and rounded on the underside.
2.2.6 The shuttle shall weigh from 4.74 to five.50 grams.
2.3 Non-Feathered Shuttle
2.3.1 The skirt, or simulation of feathers in artificial supplies, shall substitute pure feathers.
2.3.2 The bottom shall be as described in Legislation 2.2.5.
2.3.3 Measurements and weight shall be as in Legal guidelines 2.2.2, 2.2.3 and a couple of.2.6. Nonetheless, as a result of of the distinction within the particular gravity and different properties of artificial supplies as compared with feathers, a variation of as much as 10 per cent shall be acceptable.
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2.4 Topic to there being no variation within the common design, pace and flight of the shuttle,
modifications within the above specs could also be made with the approval of the Member
Affiliation involved, in locations the place atmospheric situations resulting from both altitude or local weather make
the usual shuttle unsuitable.
3. TESTING A SHUTTLE FOR SPEED
3.1 To check a shuttle, a participant shall use a full underhand stroke which makes contact with the shuttle
over the again boundary line. The shuttle shall be hit at an upward angle and in a path parallel
to the facet strains.
3.2 A shuttle of right pace will land not lower than 530 mm and less than 990 mm wanting the
different again boundary line as in Diagram B.
DIAGRAM B
4. RACKET
4.1 The racket shall be a body not exceeding 680 mm in total size and 230 mm in total width
consisting of the principle elements described in Legal guidelines 4.1.1 to 4.1.5 as illustrated in Diagram C.
4.1.1 The deal with is the a part of the racket meant to be gripped by a participant.
4.1.2 The stringed space is the a part of the racket with which it’s meant {that a} participant hits the
shuttle.
4.1.3 The top bounds the stringed space.
4.1.4 The shaft connects the deal with to the pinnacle (topic to Legislation 4.1.5).
4.1.5 The throat (if current) connects the shaft to the pinnacle.
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DIAGRAM C
body
4.2 The stringed space:
4.2.1 shall be flat and include a sample of crossed strings both alternately interlaced or
bonded the place they cross. The stringing sample shall be typically uniform and, in
explicit, not much less dense within the centre than in another space; and
4.2.2 shall not exceed 280 mm in total size and 220 mm in total width. Nonetheless, the
strings might lengthen into an space which in any other case could be the throat, offered that:
4.2.2.1 the width of the prolonged stringed space doesn’t exceed 35 mm; and
4.2.2.2 the general size of the stringed space doesn’t then exceed 330 mm.
4.3 The racket:
4.3.1 shall be freed from hooked up objects and protrusions, aside from these used solely and
particularly to restrict or stop put on and tear, or vibration, or to distribute weight, or to
safe the deal with by twine to the participant’s hand, and that are cheap in dimension and
placement for such functions; and
4.3.2 shall be freed from any gadget that makes it doable for a participant to vary materially the
form of the racket.
5. EQUIPMENT AND COMPLIANCE
5.1 Compliance
The Badminton World Federation shall rule on any query of whether or not any racket, shuttle or gear or
any prototype used within the taking part in of Badminton complies with the specs. Such ruling could also be
undertaken on the Federation’s initiative or on software by any get together with a bona fide curiosity, together with
any participant, technical official, gear producer or Member Affiliation or member thereof.
5.2 Extra gear for Parabadminton
For Para-badminton, a wheelchair or a crutch could also be used.
5.2.1 A participant’s physique could also be fastened to the wheelchair with an elastic belt.
5.2.2 A wheelchair could also be geared up with a rear supporting wheel, which can lengthen past
the principle wheels.
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5.2.3 The participant’s ft should be fastened to the footrest of the wheelchair.
6. TOSS
6.1 Earlier than play commences, a toss shall be performed and the facet successful the toss shall train the
selection in both Legislation 6.1.1 or 6.1.2:
6.1.1 to serve or obtain first;
6.1.2 to begin play at one finish of the court docket or the opposite.
6.2 The facet dropping the toss shall then train the remaining selection.
7. SCORING SYSTEM
7.1 A match shall include one of the best of three video games, except in any other case organized (Half II Part 1B
Appendix 2 and three).
7.2 A sport shall be gained by the facet which first scores 21 factors, besides as offered in Legislation 7.4 and
7.5.
7.3 The facet successful a rally shall add a degree to its rating. A facet shall win a rally, if the opposing facet
commits a ‘fault’ or the shuttle ceases to be in play as a result of it touches the floor of the court docket
contained in the opponent’s court docket.
7.4 If the rating turns into 20-all, the facet which positive factors a two level lead first, shall win that sport.
7.5 If the rating turns into 29-all, the facet scoring the thirtieth level shall win that sport.
7.6 The facet successful a sport shall serve first within the subsequent sport.
8. CHANGE OF ENDS
8.1 Gamers shall change ends:
8.1.1 on the finish of the primary sport;
8.1.2 on the finish of the second sport, if there may be to be a 3rd sport; and
8.1.3 within the third sport when a facet first scores 11 factors.
8.2 If the ends aren’t modified as indicated in Legislation 8.1, it shall be carried out in order quickly as the error is
found and when the shuttle just isn’t in play. The prevailing rating shall stand.
9. SERVICE
9.1 In an accurate service,
9.1.1 neither facet shall trigger undue delay to the supply of the service as soon as the server and the
receiver are prepared for the service. On completion of the backward motion of server’s
racket head, any delay within the begin of the service (Legislation 9.2), shall be thought-about to be an
undue delay;
9.1.2 the server and the receiver shall stand inside diagonally reverse service courts
(Diagram A) with out touching the boundary strains of those service courts;
9.1.2.1 In Para-badminton Wheelchair and Standing Courses taking part in half-court,
Diagram D and F, respectively, apply.
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9.1.3 some a part of each ft of the server and the receiver shall stay in touch with the
floor of the court docket in a stationary place from the beginning of the service (Legislation 9.2) till
the service is delivered (Legislation 9.3);
9.1.3.1 In Wheelchair Badminton: from the beginning of the service and till the
service is delivered, the wheels of the server and the receiver should be
stationary, besides the pure counter motion of the server’s
wheelchair.
9.1.4 the server’s racket shall initially hit the bottom of the shuttle;
9.1.5 the entire shuttle shall be under the server’s waist on the prompt of being hit by the
server’s racket. The waist shall be thought-about to be an imaginary line around the physique,
degree with the bottom a part of the server’s backside rib
9.1.5.1 In Wheelchair Badminton, the entire shuttle shall be under the server’s
armpit on the prompt of being hit by the server’s racket;
9.1.5.2 For Fastened Peak Experiment: The entire of the shuttle shall be under
1.10 metres from the floor of the court docket on the prompt of being hit by the
server’s racket.
9.1.6 the shaft of the server’s racket on the prompt of hitting the shuttle shall be pointing in a
downward path;
9.1.7 the motion of the server’s racket shall proceed forwards from the beginning of the service
(Legislation 9.2) till the service is delivered (Legislation 9.3);
9.1.8 the flight of the shuttle shall be upwards from the server’s racket to cross over the online so
that, if not intercepted, it shall land within the receiver’s service court docket (i. e. on or throughout the
boundary strains); and
9.1.9 in making an attempt to serve, the server shall not miss the shuttle.
9.2 As soon as the gamers are prepared for the service, the primary ahead motion of the server’s racket head
shall be the beginning of the service.
9.3 As soon as began (Legislation 9.2), the service is delivered when the shuttle is hit by the server’s racket or, in
making an attempt to serve, the server misses the shuttle.
9.4 The server shall not serve earlier than the receiver is prepared. Nonetheless, the receiver shall be thought-about
to have been prepared if a return of the service is tried.
9.5 In doubles, throughout the supply of service (Legislation 9.2, 9.3), the companions might take up any positions
inside their respective courts, which don’t unsight the opposing server or receiver.
10. SINGLES
10.1 Serving and receiving courts
10.1.1 The gamers shall serve from, and obtain in, their respective proper service courts when
the server has not scored or has scored a fair variety of factors in that sport.
10.1.2 The gamers shall serve from, and obtain in, their respective left service courts when the
server has scored an odd variety of factors in that sport.
10.1.3 In Para-badminton Courses taking part in half-court, the server and receiver shall serve from
and obtain of their respective service courts.
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10.2 Order of play and place on court docket
In a rally, the shuttle could also be hit by the server and the receiver alternately, from any place on
that participant’s facet of the online, till the shuttle ceases to be in play (Legislation 15).
10.3 Scoring and serving
10.3.1 If the server wins a rally (Legislation 7.3), the server shall rating a degree. The server shall then
serve once more from the alternate service court docket.
10.3.2 If the receiver wins a rally (Legislation 7.3), the receiver shall rating a degree. The receiver shall
then turn into the brand new server.
11. DOUBLES
11.1 Serving and receiving courts
11.1.1 A participant of the serving facet shall serve from the best service court docket when the serving facet
has not scored or has scored a fair variety of factors in that sport.
11.1.2 A participant of the serving facet shall serve from the left service court docket when the serving facet
has scored an odd variety of factors in that sport.
11.1.3 The participant of the receiving facet who served final shall keep in the identical service court docket from
the place he served final. The reverse sample shall apply to the receiver’s companion.
11.1.4 The participant of the receiving facet standing within the diagonally reverse service court docket to the
server shall be the receiver.
11.1.5 The gamers shall not change their respective service courts till they win a degree when
their facet is serving.
11.1.6 Service in any flip of serving shall be delivered from the service court docket comparable to
the serving facet’s rating, besides as offered in Legislation 12.
11.2 Order of play and place on court docket
After the service is returned, in a rally, the shuttle could also be hit by both participant of the serving facet
and both participant of the receiving facet alternately, from any place on that participant’s facet of the
web, till the shuttle ceases to be in play (Legislation 15).
11.3 Scoring and serving
11.3.1 If the serving facet wins a rally (Legislation 7.3), the serving facet shall rating a degree. The server
shall then serve once more from the alternate service court docket.
11.3.2 If the receiving facet wins a rally (Legislation 7.3), the receiving facet shall rating a degree. The
receiving facet shall then turn into the brand new serving facet.
11.4 Sequence of serving
In any sport, the best to serve shall cross consecutively:
11.4.1 from the preliminary server who began the sport from the best service court docket
11.4.2 to the companion of the preliminary receiver.
11.4.3 to the companion of the preliminary server
11.4.4 to the preliminary receiver,
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11.4.5 to the preliminary server and so forth.
11.5 No participant shall serve or obtain out of flip, or obtain two consecutive companies in the identical sport,
besides as offered in Legislation 12.
11.6 Both participant of the successful facet might serve first within the subsequent sport, and both participant of the dropping
facet might obtain first within the subsequent sport.
12. SERVICE COURT ERRORS
12.1 A service court docket error has been made when a participant:
12.1.1 has served or obtained out of flip; or
12.1.2 has served or obtained from the mistaken service court docket;
12.2 If a service court docket error is found, the error shall be corrected and the present rating shall stand.
13. FAULTS
It shall be a ‘fault’:
13.1 if a service just isn’t right (Legislation 9.1);
13.2 if, in service, the shuttle:
13.2.1 is caught on the web and stays suspended on its prime;
13.2.2 after passing over the online, is caught within the web; or
13.2.3 is hit by the receiver’s companion;
13.3 if in play, the shuttle:
13.3.1 lands outdoors the boundaries of the court docket (i. e. not on or throughout the boundary strains);
13.3.2 passes via or underneath the online;
13.3.3 fails to cross over the online;
13.3.4 touches the ceiling or facet partitions;
13.3.5 touches the particular person or gown of a participant;
13.3.5.1 In Para-badminton a Wheelchair or Crutch is taken into account a part of the
participant’s particular person.
13.3.6 touches another object or particular person outdoors the court docket;
(The place vital on account of the construction of the constructing, the native badminton
authority might, topic to the best of veto of its Member Affiliation, make bye-laws
coping with circumstances through which a shuttle touches an obstruction).
13.3.7 is caught and held on the racket after which slung throughout the execution of a stroke;
13.3.8 is hit twice in succession by the identical participant. Nonetheless, a shuttle hitting the pinnacle and the
stringed space of the racket in a single stroke shall not be a ‘fault’;
13.3.9 is hit by a participant and the participant’s companion successively; or
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13.3.10 touches a participant’s racket and doesn’t journey in direction of the opponent’s court docket;
13.4 if, in play, a participant:
13.4.1 touches the online or its helps with racket, particular person or gown;
13.4.2 invades an opponent’s court docket over the online with racket or particular person besides that the striker
might observe the shuttle over the online with the racket in the midst of a stroke after the
preliminary level of contact with the shuttle is on the striker’s facet of the online;
13.4.3 invades an opponent’s court docket underneath the online with racket or particular person such that an opponent is
obstructed or distracted; or
13.4.4 obstructs an opponent, i.e. prevents an opponent from making a authorized stroke the place the
shuttle is adopted over the online;
13.4.5 intentionally distracts an opponent by any motion resembling shouting or making gestures;
13.4.6 in Wheelchair Badminton
13.4.6.1 in the meanwhile the shuttle is hit no a part of the gamers’ trunk is in touch
with the seat of the wheelchair.
13.4.6.2 if the fixation of a foot to the footrest is misplaced.
13.4.6.3 throughout play, the participant touches the ground with any a part of the ft.
13.5 if a participant is responsible of flagrant, repeated or persistent offences underneath Legislation 16.
14. LETS
14.1 ‘Let’ shall be known as by the umpire, or by a participant (if there is no such thing as a umpire), to halt play.
14.2 It shall be a ‘let”, if:
14.2.1 the server serves earlier than the receiver is prepared (Legislation 9.4);
14.2.2 throughout service, the receiver and the server are each faulted;
14.2.3 after the service is returned, the shuttle is:
14.2.3.1 caught on the web and stays suspended on its prime, or
14.2.3.2 after passing over the online is caught within the web;
14.2.4 throughout play, the shuttle disintegrates and the bottom utterly separates from the remainder of
the shuttle;
14.2.5 within the opinion of the umpire, play is disrupted or a participant of the opposing facet is
distracted by a coach;
14.2.6 a line choose is unsighted and the umpire is unable to decide; or
14.2.7 any unexpected or unintended state of affairs has occurred.
14.3 When a ‘let’ happens, play for the reason that final service shall not depend and the participant who served final shall
serve once more.
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15. SHUTTLE NOT IN PLAY
A shuttle just isn’t in play when:
15.1 it strikes the online or submit and begins to fall in direction of the floor of the court docket on the striker’s facet of
the online;
15.2 it hits the floor of the court docket; or
15.3 a ‘fault’ or a ‘let’ has occurred.
16. CONTINUOUS PLAY, MISCONDUCT & PENALTIES
16.1 Play shall be steady from the primary service till the match is concluded, besides as allowed in
Legal guidelines 16.2 and 16.3, and, for Wheelchair Badminton, 16.5.3
16.2 Intervals:
16.2.1 not exceeding 60 seconds throughout every sport when the main rating reaches 11 factors;
and
16.2.2 not exceeding 120 seconds between the primary and second sport, and between the second
and third sport shall be allowed in all matches.
(For a televised match, the Referee might determine earlier than the match that intervals as in Legislation 16.2 are
obligatory and of fastened length).
16.3 Suspension of play
16.3.1 When necessitated by circumstances not throughout the management of the gamers, the umpire
might droop play for such a interval because the umpire might think about vital.
16.3.2 Beneath particular circumstances the Referee might instruct the umpire to droop play.
For Wheelchair Badminton restore of the wheelchair could also be thought-about a particular
circumstance.
16.3.3 If play is suspended, the present rating shall stand and play shall be resumed from that
level.
16.4 Delay in play
16.4.1 Certainly not shall play be delayed to allow a participant to get better energy or
wind or to obtain recommendation.
16.4.2 The umpire shall be the only real choose of any delay in play.
16.5 Recommendation and leaving the court docket
16.5.1 Solely when the shuttle just isn’t in play (Legislation 15), shall a participant be permitted to obtain
recommendation throughout a match.
16.5.2 No participant shall go away the court docket throughout a match with out the umpire’s permission, besides
throughout the intervals as described in Legislation 16.2.
16.5.3 In Wheelchair Badminton, a participant could also be allowed to go away the court docket for one extra
interval throughout a match with a view to catheterise. The participant shall be accompanied by a
referee.
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16.6 A participant shall not:
16.6.1 intentionally trigger delay in, or suspension of, play;
16.6.2 intentionally modify or injury the shuttle with a view to change its pace or its flight;
16.6.3 behave in an offensive method; or
16.6.4 be responsible of misconduct not in any other case coated by the Legal guidelines of Badminton.
16.7 Administration of breach
16.7.1 The umpire shall administer any breach of Legislation 16.4.1, 16.5.2 or 16.6 by:
16.7.1.1 issuing a warning to the offending facet;
16.7.1.2 faulting the offending facet, if beforehand warned. Two such faults by a facet
shall be thought-about to be a persistent offence; or
16.7.2 in circumstances of flagrant offence, persistent offences or breach of Legislation 16.2 the umpire shall
fault the offending facet and report the offending facet instantly to the Referee, who
shall have the ability to disqualify the offending facet from the match.
17. OFFICIALS AND APPEALS
17.1 The Referee shall be in total cost of the match or championship(s) of which a match
types half.
17.2 The umpire, the place appointed, shall be in command of the match, the court docket and its quick
surrounds. The umpire shall report back to the Referee.
17.3 The service choose shall name service faults made by the server ought to they happen (Legislation 9.1.2 to
9.1.8).
17.4 A line choose shall point out whether or not a shuttle landed ‘in’ or ‘out’ on the road(s) assigned.
17.5 An official’s choice shall be ultimate on all factors of truth for which that official is accountable besides that if,
17.5.1 within the opinion of the umpire, it’s past cheap doubt {that a} line choose has clearly made
a mistaken name, the umpire shall overrule the choice of the road choose.
17.5.2 an Instantaneous Evaluation System is in operation, the Referee shall determine on any line name problem
utilizing the system (Appendix 7).
17.6 An umpire shall:
17.6.1 uphold and implement the Legal guidelines of Badminton and, particularly, name a ‘fault’ or a ‘let’ ought to
both happen;
17.6.2 give a call on any attraction concerning a degree of dispute, if made earlier than the following
service is delivered;
17.6.3 guarantee gamers and spectators are saved knowledgeable of the progress of the match;
17.6.4 appoint or substitute line judges or a service choose in session with the Referee;
17.6.5 the place one other technical official just isn’t appointed, prepare for that official’s duties to be
carried out;
17.6.6 the place an appointed official is unsighted, perform that official’s duties or play a ‘let’;
17.6.7 report and report back to the Referee all issues regarding Legislation 16; and
17.6.8 discuss with the Referee all unhappy appeals on questions of legislation solely. (Such appeals should
be made earlier than the following service is delivered or, if on the finish of the match, earlier than the facet
that appeals has left the court docket.)
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Notice: In all diagrams that observe = court docket space for play and = service space
DIAGRAM D
Quick service line Lengthy service line
Court docket and repair court docket for Para-badminton wheelchair Courses singles.
DIAGRAM E
Quick service line Lengthy service line
Court docket and repair court docket for doubles Para-badminton wheelchair Courses doubles
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DIAGRAM F
Quick service line Lengthy service line
Court docket and repair court docket for Para-badminton singles standing Courses taking part in half-court.
All different standing Courses will play normal court docket (Diagram A) for each singles and doubles.
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