Week Post Five: Comparing Badminton

Badminton is like tennis and volleyball put together. In both tennis and volleyball, the team who gets the first serve is the team who wins the coin toss, but in badminton, the first person to serve is determined by popping up the bird and the team that the cork side of the bird is facing gets to serve. In tennis, volleyball, and badminton you must serve behind a line. In tennis and badminton, you have to serve cross court and it has to land in the service area. In volleyball, a team gets to hit a ball three times to get it over the net, and in tennis, a person gets a bounce to hit it over the net, but in badminton, you only get one hit. In badminton and volleyball, a team must win by two points, while in tennis, a team has to win by two points only when there is a deuce. Also, in volleyball and in badminton, you have to win two out of three games, while in tennis you have to win six games and win by two. Tennis and badminton have similar shots. In both tennis and badminton, there is the forehand, backhand, a smash, and a drop-shot. Tennis calls a badminton clear a lob. The only thing volleyball has in common is the spike. All in all, badminton is really similar to tennis and volleyball, only the equipment and certain vocabulary is different.