Badminton

Timeline

• 1949

-Adriano Torres: First Filipino

badminton player to win the National Men’s Singles Champion

• A racquet sport played by 2 opposing players(singles) or pairs(doubles), on opposite halves of a rectangular court divided by a net.
• Points are scored as players strike a shuttlecock so that it passes over the net and onto the opponent’s half of the court.

Badminton

-British and American expatriates

introduce badminton

• 1920

Timeline

• 1981

-the Philippine badminton

team participates in the

SEA games

- Johnny Yang and Stephen Chen

as Philippine's first doubles

champions in the Hong Kong Open

Heln

Timeline

• 1962

Timeline

• 1984

-Philippine's first appearance in the Thomas Cup

Timeline

• 1966

-Philippine team(inclusive of Amando Yanga, Conrado Co, Jaime Gapas, Renato Navarro, and Danny So) achieved its first team championship in the Men's division in the Triagular Meet in Vietnam.

-The formation of the Philippine Badminton

Assosiaction(PBA)

-First national badminton group

-Organized by 28 badminton clubs

• 1952

Timeline

• 1950s

• 1992

-International Badminton Federation(IBF)

recognizes the Philippines as its 21st member

country

-The IBF is now known as the Badminton

World Federation(BWF)

-Melvin Llanes is first Philippine

Champion in Prince Asian Juniors

Championship for the 16-under age

group

-Philippines first played in the Uber

Cup games

-when the Philippine ladie's team defeated Mauritius at the Uber Cup Asian Zonal Championship

Timeline

• 1998

-Stance

Playing Badminton

• Swings

Timeline

• 1996

Playing Badminton

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• http://www.badzine.net/features/philippine-badminton-%E2%80%93-continuing-to-survive/11911/

References:

• Grip

-Weena becomes first Filipino badminton

player to qualify and participate in the

Atlanta Olympics

-backhand and forehand

• played the 2006 Philippine Open Gold in mixed doubles, beat Indonesia's Trikus Hariyanto and Minarti Timur.
• played for the 2009 Sudirman Cup in Guangzhou,China;with the other Filipino players,including Kennie, his sister
• showed good results in the said mixed team championships where they beat South Africa.

Kennevic Asuncion

Famous Philippine Badminton Philippines

Playing Badminton

Famous Philippine Badminton Players

• service

Peter Gabriel Magnaye

• competed at 2012 Japan Super Series

Short service

Long service

Timeline

• 1995

Annelyn Alba

Famous Philippine Badminton Players

• Filipino badminton player who competed at 2012 Japan Super Series
• him and his partner in men's doubles, Ronel Estanislao, won a bronze medal in the 2015 Southeast Asian Games

• won the senior title at the 2005 Yonex Sunrise Philippine National Open Badminton Championships. she was also successful in the women's doubles together with Rina Batuigas.

Famous Philippine Badminton Players

Timeline

• 1997

Philip Joper Escueta

-in the Australian International Champioships, Weena Lim and Kennie Asuncion were the first Philippine ladies double to win a gold medal

-in the Jakarta SEA games, Weena Lim and Kennie Asuncion become the first Filipino bronze medalist in the women's doubles

• Footwork

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