Net Play in badminton doubles is perhaps one of the more challenging parts of the game. Or if they choose to serve or receive the other team can choose the side to start from. This lowers your upper body over a broad base and therefore lowers your centre of gravity. In this first video of a three part series you’ll discover the basic badminton doubles positions on court, for level doubles when the shuttle has been lifted to the centre rear court. On Serve: When a player is serving both the server and receiver should be in the up position just behind the service line. Try to keep the opponent on the move as much as possible and not play me to you badminton. Part 2 and 3 are available to members of my Online Badminton Coaching Club which gives you access to over 75 coaching videos, along with a number of other benefits (including a Private Facebook Group & own footage critique). Additionally, you’ll discover where the pair in defence should stand and why. The receiving ready position in doubles assumes that the most likely shot you will receive is a low serve. So naturally, your feet will also be pointing towards where the shuttle is coming from. However, if serving is a strong part of a players game they may decide to go first. The only real change that has been noticed are scores being closer, and rallies being longer due to the more conservative play. In order to lower your centre of gravity, you must spread your legs a little wider than shoulder-width apart and bend your knees. A team should go on the attack when their opponents hit a shuttle up. At the start of the game you are able to pick which side you want to be with your partner. You will not be able to retrieve any shots effectively on the unguarded side of your body, if at all! He is ready for any likely straight smash to him and can adequately cover all angles of smash. This may be because at the end of each rally a point is now scored, so having the serve is less important. You should face towards the direction the shuttle is coming from. The serve is often a defensive shot because it has to be hit from below the waist, meaning it has an upward trajectory to travel over the net. Doubles service rules in badminton can be a bit tricky to understand. Hitting the shuttle consistently high and deep to give time to recover. What to do: If the opponents win the toss and selects the bad side, opt to receive the serve first. If the server now fails to hit the shuttle into the service area a point is awarded to the receiving player. Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side). That is the tramlines of the left-hand side of the picture. This is when two players just stand in the center of the court and hit the shuttle back and forth between them. We already know we are square to the net facing the direction the shuttle is coming from. Mike is creator & CEO of TeachPE.com. This is because of the new scoring system making it much easier to win points when receiving the serve. The racket should not be biased towards the forehand or backhand side exclusively. (I have written a number of articles covering the serve in one way or another) Because of this, the position of the server and their partner are important. For beginners to badminton the main points to focus on are: Master all of these points then start to add disguise to shots or attempt to incorporate more advanced strokes. The male player (Yuta Watanabe) in the defensive position on the right, holds his racket so that he does not favour either the forehand or backhand side. Let’s take a look at the situation in the below image. Like with every shot, you should perform a split step just as the opponent strikes the shuttle. When defending: Players move into a side by side system because if the other team are attacking they are more likely to aim the shuttle down at the midcourt. The first tip is to pay attention to your court positioning when you’re at the front player at the net. We discuss the roles of the attacking players, where they should stand and which parts of the court will not be covered and why. In the old system if this happened the serve would just switch to the other player and there would be no change in the score. Hitting a high serve: When hitting a high serve switch to the side by side formation because the shuttle has been hit up giving the opponents a chance to attack. So being side by side each player on the defending team only has to defend one side of the court instead of the whole width of it, if they stayed in the up and back position. His partner (Arisa Higashino) is also not biasing her racket position to either side and has set herself to defend the cross-court smash. Try to change the speed of play, by mixing up shots. It can be very tricky for a beginner to play doubles especially when you don’t know where you need to be after the shot hit by the opponent. Thanks for enhancing my understanding of the game. In this article, I will show you multiple tips and tricks for playing doubles as well as mixed doubles. Always play to personal strengths and try to exploit the opponent’s weaknesses. The point is she is has a little more time to react to it than a smash to her body for example. Keep playing and trying until the end, anything could happen.

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