What is the fastest ball sport?

When we are not working, we usually make an appointment with friends to go out and play ball. There are many ball sports, so we can choose any one. So which ball sport is the fastest? According to relevant research, badminton is the fastest ball sport in the world, and many badminton matches have broken the Guinness World Records. Let us learn about it together.

If I tell you that the fastest flying ball in the world is badminton, would you believe it? If I tell you that this record is held by Chinese men's doubles player Fu Haifeng, would you believe it? Wasn’t he the starting player in last night’s Sudirman Cup match between China and Japan?

People usually think that tennis is the fastest ball sport. The world record for the fastest ball speed is 246 km/h, held by the famous American tennis player Andy Roddick.

Believe it or not, this is a fact. In fact, this conclusion was proven four years ago at the Sudirman Cup held in Beijing in 2005: Badminton is the fastest ball sport in the world, with a maximum speed of 332 kilometers per hour (the speed of badminton leaving the racket).

Compared to these speeds, even the fastest tennis serve or the hardest pitched baseball in major league baseball seems like a slow-motion picture.

Fu Haifeng, a Chinese men's doubles player known for his offensive power, still maintains the fastest ball speed in the world at 332 kilometers per hour. During the development of the new racket for the Chinese badminton team this year, the "demanding" him made many demands on the manufacturer. At this Sudirman Cup, Fu Haifeng, who holds a new racket, is very satisfied with the performance of the equipment and expressed his hope to set a new record with the help of the "new weapon". He said: "My current average smash speed is more than 320 kilometers per hour. I believe that the new racket can increase this data to more than 400 kilometers per hour, achieving a new breakthrough."

One round of running requires 1.6 kilometers

Playing badminton is actually very tiring

Badminton is hard physical labor. Badminton is usually considered as a leisure sport that does not require much physical exertion. In fact, the physical energy consumed by badminton players in a game is astonishingly large. The badminton-related data from China Sports Daily may surprise you.

Badminton players have to run more than 1.6 kilometers in a game. In a 45-minute game, badminton players need to adjust their body position more than 300 times, and each adjustment is more than 90 degrees.

In a singles match, players typically hit the ball hundreds of times, and the speed of the hits is almost twice as fast as the fastest serve in tennis or the fastest throw in professional baseball. More than 100 of these hits require extensive arm swings, far exceeding the number of arm swings in professional baseball leagues.

Doubles matches move faster and the ball is hit harder than in singles matches. In a doubles match, the number of times you need to hit the ball within 20 seconds is 15. That is to say, in a 45-minute game, the total number of hits by the two players reached 2025 times, and each player hit the ball more than 1000 times. Assuming that 50% of all hits are hard hits, at the end of an inning, each player will have hit the ball hard more than 500 times, with each ball traveling at more than 180 miles per hour.

Through the above understanding, we can know the fastest ball sport, and we also have a general understanding of badminton. Of course, if you don’t know how to play badminton, you can take a look at the methods and techniques of playing badminton. Once you master them, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort and better help us learn to play badminton.