Topic: 🏸🏓🎾The Racquet Sports thread [Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis and more]🏸🏓🎾 (Read 82 times)

The Oldest badminton tournament has come to an end with Jonathan Christie(Indonesia) winning the Men's singles. Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTB5QQ_3OS0
Womens singles won by Carolina Marin(Spain). Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDP0RaU3Bk
Men's Doubles were won by the defending champs Alfian/Ardianto(Indonesia). Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgjl3fceX1Q
Women's Doubles were won by Baek/Lee (South Korea). Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8fuwncu85E
Mixed Doubles were won by the defending champs Zheng/Huang(China). Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVq4AAmbNA4

Now, China Masters and Swiss Open are ongoing.

Cracker of a Badminton match coming up in under 10 mins. One of the most attacking players on tour Lee Zii Jia takes on one of the quickest and all-round player in Loh Ken Yew. Be sure to catch the action on the official BWF youtube channel.

The oldest badminton trournament is ongoing at the moment. The All England Open. Which was first started in 1899, its been 125 years of the tournament, this year. It is conducted yearly and I'd say, it is only dwarfed by Olympics when it comes to reputation. It is being live streamed on the official BWF channel. Please be on the lookout and have fun watching it. I'll start posting the order of play from tomorrow and the streams, respectively. Only doubles remains for today's play, which you can also find on the official BWF channel.

Thanks for creating this thread, Badminton and table tennis are also my favorite games. I used to play those games when I was a kid and it was a really enjoyable experience. I have also noticed that there is no thread about those sports but I am happy that you have created the thread, and I hope that we will see some good activity on this thread from now on.

I don't really have much information about those top players of table tennis and badminton but I guess once we get active on this thread then we will learn a lot about those players. Badminton and table tennis are quite good games, I'm not fan of the squash game, but I'm sure I'll get interested in that one as well after learning about it.

Reserved for Ongoing tournaments.

I don't see a place for my favourite sports and a few more that I follow and have been ignored up until now. Well, not anymore.
Will share some of the fun facts of respective sports as well as the current world rankings.
- Badminton holds the title of the world’s fastest sport. Shuttlecocks can reach speeds exceeding 300 mph (482 km/h) . Currently the Worlds fastest smash(in a controlled environment) is 565 Km/h, which is held by Satwiksairaj Rankireddy of India.
- Badminton is the second most played sport globally, especially popular in Asia and Europe.(I doubt it, but it's posted on some sports website )
- Badminton was previously known by various names like Shuttlecock, Hanetsuki, or Battledore. It officially adopted the name “badminton” at the Duke of Beaufort’s estate in 1873.

- The name "squash" was chosen because the sport was originally played with rubber balls, which became squashed when they hit walls. The name stuck through the years.
-  It's been voted the healthiest sport to play by Forbes magazine based on cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, muscular endurance, calories burned, and risk of injury.
- An hour of Squash can burn about 600-1000 calories. Only Swimming as an activity burns more calories per hour.

- During Cold War, it was table tennis that bridged the frozen gaps between China and the United States. In 1971, during the World Table Tennis Championships, two players from the opposing countries were kind to one another. Instead of seeing the other with suspicion, they exchanged gifts. This interaction brought Chinese Chairman Mao to extend an invitation to the U.S table tennis team. He gave them an all-expenses-paid trip to China. From there, ties between the United States and China were able to heal after many years of suspicions.
- in 1993, players Lisa Lomas and Jackie Bellinger set the fastest record of hitting the ball back and forth across the table. In 60 seconds, they hit back and forth 173 times. Almost 3 hits per second.
- China dominates the sport. Out of the 152 world championship titles since 1981, China has won 129 out of it. That's 129 out of 152 world championships!

Other racquet sports or similar sports are welcomed too like Paddle, Touch Tennis, Pickleball, Racquetball, Tennis etc.