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2010 Swiss Super Series
The 2010 Swiss Open Super Series is a top level badminton competition which will be held from March 16, 2010 to March 21, 2010 in Basel, Switzerland. It is the fourth BWF Super Series competition on the 2010 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event is $200,000. St. Jakobshalle was host the competition. This was the 20th anniversary of the swiss Open tournament, since the tournament was held in St. Jakobshalle and entered the high-level World Badminton Grand Prix event in 1991. Men's singles Seeds # Lee Chong Wei # Lin Dan # Chen Jin # Taufik Hidayat # Peter Gade # Jan Ø. Jørgensen # Nguyễn Tiến Minh # Chen Long Results Women's singles Seeds # Wang Yihan # Jiang Yanjiao # Pi Hongyan # Lu Lan # Zhou Mi # Wang Shixian # Tine Rasmussen # Juliane Schenk Results Men's doubles Seeds # Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong # Jung Jae-sung / Lee Yong-dae # Markis Kido / Hendra Setiawan # Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen # Alvent Yulianto / Hendra Aprida Gunawan # Guo Zhen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badminton
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). Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court. Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within the opposing side's half of the court. Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net. Play ends once the shuttlecock has struck the floor or if a fault has been called by the umpire, service judge, or (in their absence) the opposing side. The shuttlecock is a feathered or (in informal matches) plastic projectile which flies differently from the balls used in many other sports. In particular, the feathers create much higher drag, causing the shuttlecock to decelerate more rapidly. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
