Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: May 12, 2023, 18:22 IST
With the brand new ‘spin serve’ making a flutter in worldwide badminton, world governing physique BWF has determined to place an interim ban on the usage of the experimental serve efficient instantly till May 29, 2023.
“BWF Council has authorized a proposal for an ‘experimental variation’ to the Laws of Badminton to forbid the usage of the brand new ‘spin serve’ efficient instantly till 29 May 2023,” BWF said in a statement.
“The interim ban takes effect at all BWF sanction international tournaments including the BWF Sudirman Cup Finals 2023 starting Sunday 14 May 2023 and the Malaysia Masters 2023, the following week.”
A brand new “unreturnable” spin-serve had caught the attention of the world’s top badminton players with even the Indian doubles shuttlers putting in the hard yards to master this latest skill, which many believe can give “unfair” benefit to the gamers.
It was first began by Danish doubles participant Marcus Rindshoj, who gathered a bunch of factors with this revolutionary spin serve on the Polish Open final month.
This is a type of serve the place the shuttler holds the cork of the shuttlecock in between his or her thumb and center finger and tries to place a spin to it with a carrom strike movement earlier than sending it throughout the web with the racquet.
This spin serve has proved to be a handful for the opposition gamers, who’ve struggled to ship it again because the shuttle twists and falls throughout the web.
“The modification to 9.1.5 of Section 4.1 of the BWF Laws of Badminton now states that the server shall launch the shuttle with out including spin, and the server’s racket shall initially hit the bottom of the shuttle.”
“Any failure to adhere to the experimental variation to the law will result in a fault being called.”
BWF President Poul-Erik H yer stated: “BWF welcomes gamers creating innovation in our sport and experimenting with strategies to create aggressive benefit on courtroom.
“However, we have now acquired a number of factors of suggestions from throughout the badminton group, together with the BWF Athletes’ Commission, expressing that this ‘spin serve’ may have a unfavourable impression on the sport.
“It’s additionally been noticed internally that this ‘spin serve’ has many comparable traits to the ‘Sidek serve’ (named after Rashid Sidek), which isn’t allowed.
“An skilled panel, due to this fact, really useful to disallow the ‘spin serve’ till additional session may happen with the membership on the upcoming BWF AGM on 27 May 2023.”
The apex body said it wanted to “avoid a scenario where the upcoming TotalEnergies BWF Sudirman Cup Finals 2023, and other international tournaments, could be platforms to test the new spin serve’ and ultimately disrupt the competitions.
“As such, BWF Council felt it best to impose this experimental variation to disallow the ‘spin serve’ until BWF Council convenes again on 29 May for further discussion and deliberation.”
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