Legal guidelines – Badminton
PART II
SECTION 1 A
LAWS OF BADMINTON
DEFINITIONS
Participant Any particular person enjoying Badminton.
Match The essential contest in Badminton between opposing sides every of 1 or two gamers.
Singles A match the place there’s 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 fitting 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 courtroom shall be a rectangle marked out with traces 40 mm large as proven in Diagram A.
1.1.1 The courtroom for Wheelchair Badminton shall be as proven in Diagrams D and E,
respectively.
1.1.2 For Standing Badminton courses enjoying half-court the courtroom for singles shall be as
proven in Diagram F.
1.2 The traces marking out the courtroom shall be simply distinguishable and ideally be colored white or
yellow.
1.3 All of the traces shall kind a part of the world which they outline.
1.4 The posts shall be 1.55 metres in peak from the floor of the courtroom and shall stay vertical
when the web is strained as offered in Regulation 1.10.
1.5 The posts shall be positioned on the doubles facet traces as in Diagram A no matter whether or not
singles or doubles is being performed. The posts or its helps shall not prolong into the courtroom past
the facet traces.
1.6 The web shall be manufactured from advantageous wire 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 not less than 6.1 metres large.
1.8 The highest of the web shall be edged with a 75 mm white tape doubled over a wire or cable operating
via the tape. This tape shall relaxation upon the wire or cable.
1.9 The wire or cable shall be stretched firmly, flush with the highest of the posts.
1.10 The highest of the web from the floor of the courtroom shall be 1.524 metres on the centre of the courtroom and 1.55 metres over the facet traces 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 web and the posts. If crucial, the total depth of the
web on the ends shall be tied to the posts.
DIAGRAM A
Be aware: (1) Diagonal size of full courtroom = 14.723m
(2) Court docket as proven above can be utilized for each singles and doubles play
(3) ** Non-obligatory 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 lined by a skinny layer of leather-based.
2.2 Feathered Shuttle
2.2.1 The shuttle shall have 16 feathers mounted 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 fixed 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 change pure feathers.
2.3.2 The bottom shall be as described in Regulation 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 normal 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 circumstances 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 route parallel
to the facet traces.
3.2 A shuttle of appropriate 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 supposed to be gripped by a participant.
4.1.2 The stringed space is the a part of the racket with which it’s supposed {that a} participant hits the
shuttle.
4.1.3 The pinnacle bounds the stringed space.
4.1.4 The shaft connects the deal with to the pinnacle (topic to Regulation 4.1.5).
4.1.5 The throat (if current) connects the shaft to the pinnacle.
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DIAGRAM C
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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 prolong into an space which in any other case can 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 connected objects and protrusions, apart 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 wire to the participant’s hand, and that are affordable in dimension and
placement for such functions; and
4.3.2 shall be freed from any system that makes it potential for a participant to alter 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 enjoying of Badminton complies with the specs. Such ruling could also be
undertaken on the Federation’s initiative or on utility by any occasion 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 mounted to the wheelchair with an elastic belt.
5.2.2 A wheelchair could also be outfitted with a rear supporting wheel, which can prolong past
the principle wheels.
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5.2.3 The participant’s toes have to be mounted 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
alternative in both Regulation 6.1.1 or 6.1.2:
6.1.1 to serve or obtain first;
6.1.2 to start out play at one finish of the courtroom or the opposite.
6.2 The facet shedding the toss shall then train the remaining alternative.
7. SCORING SYSTEM
7.1 A match shall include the most effective of three video games, until in any other case organized (Half II Part 1B
Appendix 2 and three).
7.2 A recreation shall be gained by the facet which first scores 21 factors, besides as offered in Regulation 7.4 and
7.5.
7.3 The facet successful a rally shall add some extent 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 courtroom
contained in the opponent’s courtroom.
7.4 If the rating turns into 20-all, the facet which positive factors a two level lead first, shall win that recreation.
7.5 If the rating turns into 29-all, the facet scoring the thirtieth level shall win that recreation.
7.6 The facet successful a recreation shall serve first within the subsequent recreation.
8. CHANGE OF ENDS
8.1 Gamers shall change ends:
8.1.1 on the finish of the primary recreation;
8.1.2 on the finish of the second recreation, if there’s to be a 3rd recreation; and
8.1.3 within the third recreation when a facet first scores 11 factors.
8.2 If the ends aren’t modified as indicated in Regulation 8.1, it shall be performed 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 (Regulation 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 traces of those service courts;
9.1.2.1 In Para-badminton Wheelchair and Standing Lessons enjoying half-court,
Diagram D and F, respectively, apply.
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9.1.3 some a part of each toes of the server and the receiver shall stay in touch with the
floor of the courtroom in a stationary place from the beginning of the service (Regulation 9.2) till
the service is delivered (Regulation 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 have to 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 beneath 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,
stage with the bottom a part of the server’s backside rib
9.1.5.1 In Wheelchair Badminton, the entire shuttle shall be beneath the server’s
armpit on the prompt of being hit by the server’s racket;
9.1.5.2 For Fastened Top Experiment: The entire of the shuttle shall be beneath
1.10 metres from the floor of the courtroom 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 route;
9.1.7 the motion of the server’s racket shall proceed forwards from the beginning of the service
(Regulation 9.2) till the service is delivered (Regulation 9.3);
9.1.8 the flight of the shuttle shall be upwards from the server’s racket to move over the web so
that, if not intercepted, it shall land within the receiver’s service courtroom (i. e. on or throughout the
boundary traces); and
9.1.9 in trying 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 (Regulation 9.2), the service is delivered when the shuttle is hit by the server’s racket or, in
trying 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, through the supply of service (Regulation 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 good variety of factors in that recreation.
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 recreation.
10.1.3 In Para-badminton Lessons enjoying 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 courtroom
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 web, till the shuttle ceases to be in play (Regulation 15).
10.3 Scoring and serving
10.3.1 If the server wins a rally (Regulation 7.3), the server shall rating some extent. The server shall then
serve once more from the alternate service courtroom.
10.3.2 If the receiver wins a rally (Regulation 7.3), the receiver shall rating some extent. The receiver shall
then develop 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 fitting service courtroom when the serving facet
has not scored or has scored a good variety of factors in that recreation.
11.1.2 A participant of the serving facet shall serve from the left service courtroom when the serving facet
has scored an odd variety of factors in that recreation.
11.1.3 The participant of the receiving facet who served final shall keep in the identical service courtroom 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 courtroom to the
server shall be the receiver.
11.1.5 The gamers shall not change their respective service courts till they win some extent when
their facet is serving.
11.1.6 Service in any flip of serving shall be delivered from the service courtroom akin to
the serving facet’s rating, besides as offered in Regulation 12.
11.2 Order of play and place on courtroom
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 (Regulation 15).
11.3 Scoring and serving
11.3.1 If the serving facet wins a rally (Regulation 7.3), the serving facet shall rating some extent. The server
shall then serve once more from the alternate service courtroom.
11.3.2 If the receiving facet wins a rally (Regulation 7.3), the receiving facet shall rating some extent. The
receiving facet shall then develop into the brand new serving facet.
11.4 Sequence of serving
In any recreation, the fitting to serve shall move consecutively:
11.4.1 from the preliminary server who began the sport from the fitting service courtroom
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 recreation,
besides as offered in Regulation 12.
11.6 Both participant of the successful facet might serve first within the subsequent recreation, and both participant of the shedding
facet might obtain first within the subsequent recreation.
12. SERVICE COURT ERRORS
12.1 A service courtroom error has been made when a participant:
12.1.1 has served or acquired out of flip; or
12.1.2 has served or acquired from the flawed service courtroom;
12.2 If a service courtroom error is found, the error shall be corrected and the prevailing rating shall stand.
13. FAULTS
It shall be a ‘fault’:
13.1 if a service just isn’t appropriate (Regulation 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 web, 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 exterior the boundaries of the courtroom (i. e. not on or throughout the boundary traces);
13.3.2 passes via or below the web;
13.3.3 fails to move over the web;
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 exterior the courtroom;
(The place crucial on account of the construction of the constructing, the native badminton
authority might, topic to the fitting of veto of its Member Affiliation, make bye-laws
coping with circumstances by which a shuttle touches an obstruction).
13.3.7 is caught and held on the racket after which slung through 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 the direction of the opponent’s courtroom;
13.4 if, in play, a participant:
13.4.1 touches the web or its helps with racket, particular person or gown;
13.4.2 invades an opponent’s courtroom over the web with racket or particular person besides that the striker
might comply with the shuttle over the web with the racket in the middle of a stroke after the
preliminary level of contact with the shuttle is on the striker’s facet of the web;
13.4.3 invades an opponent’s courtroom below the web 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 web;
13.4.5 intentionally distracts an opponent by any motion equivalent to 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 toes.
13.5 if a participant is responsible of flagrant, repeated or persistent offences below Regulation 16.
14. LETS
14.1 ‘Let’ shall be known as by the umpire, or by a participant (if there isn’t any umpire), to halt play.
14.2 It shall be a ‘let”, if:
14.2.1 the server serves earlier than the receiver is prepared (Regulation 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 web 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 because the 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 web or put up and begins to fall in the direction of the floor of the courtroom on the striker’s facet of
the web;
15.2 it hits the floor of the courtroom; 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 recreation when the main rating reaches 11 factors;
and
16.2.2 not exceeding 120 seconds between the primary and second recreation, and between the second
and third recreation shall be allowed in all matches.
(For a televised match, the Referee might resolve earlier than the match that intervals as in Regulation 16.2 are
necessary and of mounted period).
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 crucial.
16.3.2 Underneath 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 prevailing rating shall stand and play shall be resumed from that
level.
16.4 Delay in play
16.4.1 Not at all shall play be delayed to allow a participant to get better power 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 courtroom
16.5.1 Solely when the shuttle just isn’t in play (Regulation 15), shall a participant be permitted to obtain
recommendation throughout a match.
16.5.2 No participant shall depart the courtroom throughout a match with out the umpire’s permission, besides
through the intervals as described in Regulation 16.2.
16.5.3 In Wheelchair Badminton, a participant could also be allowed to depart the courtroom for one further
interval throughout a match as a way 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 harm the shuttle as a way 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 lined by the Legal guidelines of Badminton.
16.7 Administration of breach
16.7.1 The umpire shall administer any breach of Regulation 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 Regulation 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 event or championship(s) of which a match
varieties half.
17.2 The umpire, the place appointed, shall be in command of the match, the courtroom and its rapid
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 (Regulation 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 determination shall be closing 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 affordable doubt {that a} line choose has clearly made
a flawed name, the umpire shall overrule the choice of the road choose.
17.5.2 an Immediate Evaluate System is in operation, the Referee shall resolve 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 choice on any enchantment concerning some extent of dispute, if made earlier than the subsequent
service is delivered;
17.6.3 guarantee gamers and spectators are saved knowledgeable of the progress of the match;
17.6.4 appoint or change line judges or a service choose in session with the Referee;
17.6.5 the place one other technical official just isn’t appointed, organize 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 document and report back to the Referee all issues referring to Regulation 16; and
17.6.8 seek advice from the Referee all unhappy appeals on questions of regulation solely. (Such appeals should
be made earlier than the subsequent service is delivered or, if on the finish of the match, earlier than the facet
that appeals has left the courtroom.)
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DIAGRAM D
Brief service line Lengthy service line
Court docket and repair courtroom for Para-badminton wheelchair Lessons singles.
DIAGRAM E
Brief service line Lengthy service line
Court docket and repair courtroom for doubles Para-badminton wheelchair Lessons doubles
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DIAGRAM F
Brief service line Lengthy service line
Court docket and repair courtroom for Para-badminton singles standing Lessons enjoying half-court.
All different standing Lessons will play normal courtroom (Diagram A) for each singles and doubles.
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