The Badminton International Federation (BWF) has determined to increase the ban at the new ‘spin serve’ till the realization of the Paris Olympics and Paralympic Video games subsequent yr.
The ruling can be implemented from the Thailand Open Tremendous 500 match beginning in Bangkok on Tuesday.
Forward of the Sudirman Cup, the BWF had put an meantime ban on the usage of the experimental serve till Might 29, 2023.
“After session with the badminton neighborhood, BWF Council believed it perfect to forbid the ‘spin serve’ for every other 15 months so that you could now not have an effect on the Olympic and Paralympic qualifying classes and the Video games themselves,” the BWF stated in a commentary.
The experimental spin serve had stuck the eye of the sector’s best badminton avid gamers with even the Indian doubles shuttlers putting in place the arduous yards to grasp this newest talent, which many imagine may give “unfair” benefit to the avid gamers.
It was once first began by way of Danish doubles participant Marcus Rindshoj, who collected a host of issues with this cutting edge spin serve on the Polish Open closing month.
This can be a roughly serve the place the shuttler holds the cork of the shuttlecock in between his or her thumb and heart finger and tries to place a spin to it with a carrom strike movement ahead of sending it around the internet with the racquet.
BWF secretary basic Thomas Lund reiterated that the “BWF welcomed innovation in badminton” however added that “extra proof was once wanted at the possible results” of the serve ahead of introducing it on a complete scale.
“The BWF Rules of Badminton underneath 9.1.5 of Segment 4.1 now reads that the server shall unencumber the travel with out including spin, and the server’s racket shall to begin with hit the bottom of the travel,” the commentary stated.
