The Danish badminton player Marcus Rindshøj has invented a serve which is so groundbreaking that the International Badminton Federation (BWF) will not approve it.
In mid-May, the serve was banned until and including 29 May, and now the badminton association has extended the ban until September next year.
The BWF states this on its website on Monday.
This means that the badminton players at, among other things, the Olympics in Paris will not have the opportunity to make use of the mischievous serve, which is difficult for the receiver to handle because the ball spins.
BWF’s general secretary Thomas Lund welcomes innovation in the sport of badminton, but the serve will not be allowed for the time being.
“More documentation of the potential effects is needed”he says according to BWF’s website.
In the rules, it is now specified that the server must not put spin in the shuttlecock before the serve. Precisely spin is the main ingredient in Marcus Rindshøj’s ground-breaking serve.
In addition, it has been made a requirement that the racket must hit the cork, which forms the bottom of the ball, and that you must not hit the feathers directly when serving.
Marcus Rindshøj used the serve at the Polish Open earlier this year, and the opponent couldn’t put up anything against it.
He himself has stated that if he were a legislator, he would have the serve banned.
2023-05-29 12:37:13
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