Event Overview

The NSW Police & Emergency Services Games Badminton event is on again this year and is to be held on Saturday 23^rd October 2021 at the Beaton Park Leisure Centre. In 2019, it was the first time the badminton event was run, and we had a   wide representation across Police, Nursing, Corrective Services both current and retired entrants, and looking forward to another fun and amazing event this year.

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.  It involves a combination of physical, technical, tactical skills and is the fastest racket sport in the world, with smashes recorded above 400km/h when played at the highest level.

Event Rules

Matches will be played in either a Round Robin Format or Double Elimination format depending on number of entries in each event category.

Each match will consist of best of 3 sets to 21 points with deuce from 20-20 onwards, to be decided by a lead of 2 consecutive points; i.e. 22-20; to a maximum cap at 30 points.

Basic rules (as per Badminton Australia):

The server is required to hit the shuttle below the hip when serving, if the serve is above the hip, this is deemed a fault

A shuttle can only be hit once upon returning a serve/shot

The shuttle must be volleyed over the net to continue play

A serve must be served diagonally with the opponents standing within their respective diagonal boxes

Players cannot make contact with the net

The service is always given to the winner of the previous point, meaning it will alternate on the point won.

The serve must alternate their location from left box to right box or vice versa when maintaining serve.

Event Description

Badminton was first held in 2019 at the NSW Police & ES Games, currently, there is no NSW Police Badminton Club affiliated to the NSW Police Council of Sport to support this event.  However, it was held at the 2016 Sunshine Coast Australasian Police & Emergency Services Games, as well as at the last Australasian Police & Emergency Services Games held in Mandurah, 2018.

The  event categories to be held this year are:

EVENT	AGE CATEGORY
Men’s SINGLES	OPEN age	45+ age
Men’s DOUBLES	OPEN age
Women’s SINGLES	OPEN age
MIXED Doubles	OPEN age

I encourage all competitors to register for this event, so that we may see it as a regular event at these Games.

The Sports Fee is $20.00 per person + GST for 1 event and $30.00 per person + GST for 2 or more events. I would encourage you to enter more than one.

Event Eligibility

Please refer to 2021 Event menu on this website to clarify.