The BADMINTONIAN: SHUTTLER NOTES - Lin Dan upsets Lee Chong Wei in the All England Badminton Open

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

SHUTTLER NOTES - Lin Dan upsets Lee Chong Wei in the All England Badminton Open

(photo from Xinhua/AFP)

China's Lin Dan reprised his 2008 Olympic gold victory over world number one Lee Chong Wei by giving him another stunning defeat in the recently concluded All England Badminton Open in the men's singles event. In his fourth men's singles victory in the prestigious Birmingham tournament, Lin Dan defeated the Malaysian shuttler 21-19, 21-12.

Although top seeded Lee was obviously saddened by his new defeat he promised to work harder next time and find ways to break Lin Dan. According to Lee, Lin Dan played even better than in the Beijing Olympics and was more fast and aggressive in his attacks.

China also swept the women's singles and all doubles event, making it the first country since Denmark in 1948 to win all gold. This is also the first time that the Chinese team bagged all categories in an overseas tournament.

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Badminton has been played since ancient times; an early form of the sport was played in ancient Greece. In Japan, the related game Hanetsuki was played as early as the 16th century. In the west, badminton came from a game called battledore and shuttlecock, in which two or more players keep a feathered shuttlecock in the air with small racquets.

The modern form of Badminton however can be traced to India, where British military officers stationed there in the late 19th century became interested in a similar local game which was known to them as Poona (derived from Pune, an Indian garrison town). This game was taken back to England where the rules of badminton were set out. Another early version of the game was recorded in the 1850s in the southern Indian city of Tanjore, called pooppanthu vilayattam (Tamil for flower-ball game) in which balls made of wool and cardboard were used in the place of the modern-day shuttlecock.

Isaac Spratt, a London toy dealer, published a booklet, "Badminton Battledore - a new game" in 1860, but unfortunately no copy has survived. The new sport was definitively launched in 1873 at the Badminton House, Gloucestershire,owned by the Duke of Beaufort. During that time, the game was referred to as "The Game of Badminton," and the game's official name became Badminton.

Until 1887, the sport was played in England under the rules that prevailed in India. The Bath Badminton Club standardized the rules and made the game applicable to English ideas. The basic regulations were drawn up in 1887. In 1893, the Badminton Association of England published the first set of rules according to these regulations, similar to today's rules, and officially launched badminton in a house called "Dunbar" at 6 Waverley Grove, Portsmouth, England on September 13 of that year. They also started the All England Open Badminton Championships, the first badminton competition in the world, in 1899. (From Wikipedia)

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

SHUTTLER NOTES - Lin Dan upsets Lee Chong Wei in the All England Badminton Open

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