The court is rectangular and divided into halves by a net. Courts are usually marked for both singles and doubles play, although badminton rules permit a court to be marked for singles only.
Keeping this in view, what is the badminton court size?
Court dimensions
The badminton court is 13.4m long and 6.1m wide. For singles the court is marked 5.18m wide. The lines marking out the court are easily distinguishable and coloured white or yellow. The lines are 40mm wide.
But the width differs with the singles court running wide till 5.18m (17 ft), denoted by the side lines, while for the doubles court, the width is extended to 6.1m (20 ft), marked as the doubles sidelines.
Similarly one may ask, who is the father of badminton?
He was ranked World No. 1 in 1980; the same year he became the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships.
Prakash Padukone | |
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Country | India |
Born | 10 June 1955 Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Handedness | Right |