30 Jan, 2025 | People, Uncategorised
THE FIRST WOMAN’S SINGLES CHAMPION AT THE ALL-ENGLAND BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS – ETHEL THOMSON. Only three doubles events were played at the first All-England Badminton Championships in 1899. So, it was the next year, 1900, that the tournament was expanded to two...
2 Jan, 2025 | Development
The First-ever County Open Badminton Tournament. 120 years ago, the Middlesex County Badminton Association organised the first-ever County Open Tournament on January 2nd 1905. It was played at the Ealing Badminton Hall, Kenilworth Road, Ealing, London. With its three...
6 Oct, 2024 | Development
The Badminton Museum has had a purple feathered battledore shuttlecock circa 1870 donated to the National Shuttlecock Collection. The shuttlecock has a brown velvet base with a wool trim and 26 purple feathers. It has a diameter of 100 mm (4 “) x 125 mm (5 “) in...
11 Aug, 2024 | Development, News
Yonex Nanoflare 1000 Z racket. India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy broke a decade-old Guinness world record for the fastest shot ever in badminton, 351 miles per hour (565 km per hour), using a Yonex Nanoflare 1000 Z racket with BG80 strings. Satwiksairaj...
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