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9 stories on badminton from SocialSportHub Journal — how its rules, equipment, surfaces and science actually work.
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Explainers
Singles and doubles use different sidelines and different back boundaries for the serve — and the two disagreements point in opposite directions. Doubles serves into a wider, shorter box; singles into a narrower, longer one.
Features
A strung net always dips in the middle. Tennis decided to make the dip 156 millimetres and mandated a strap to produce it; badminton lets it be 26; volleyball forbids it and allows 20 millimetres of error. One physical fact, three regulatory answers.
An argument about how the sport behaves, with the evidence for it.
Analysis
Tennis approves a separate high-altitude ball and requires sixty days of acclimatisation. Badminton lets a national association change the shuttle. Football states its pressure specification 'at sea level' and stops there.
Analysis
Every other governing body in this Journal's corpus approves a ball by measuring it. The Laws of Badminton describe the shuttle in millimetres and then test it by hitting one down the court and looking at where it lands — a window 460 millimetres wide.
Analysis
How a sport counts is not bookkeeping. It decides whether a disaster is survivable, whether a lead can be defended by running down a clock, and whether a match may end level at all — and football, tennis and volleyball each answered differently.
Where the table is the argument, and the dataset behind it is published.
Longer pieces on the built and designed side of the sport.
Reported from the research rather than the gym floor.
The evergreen pages these 9 stories draw on, most-cited first.
A sport gets a page here once the Journal has published at least 4 stories on it in at least two different forms. Everything else the publication covers is listed onTopics.
