As you know, badminton is a racket sport. So there’s no doubt that racket is at the heart of the sport.

After all, that’s what you will use to smash the shuttlecock while playing a game, be it casually or professionally. But if you want to become a professional shuttler, then you must know everything about a badminton racket, from its different parts to its specifications.

So, here we’ll look at the specifications of a badminton racket up close.

Badminton Racket

The sports global governing body, the Badminton World Federation (BWF), has placed certain specifications about badminton rackets. These days shuttlers use rackets made from carbon fibre composite, which is hard but lightweight.

Badminton rackets come in different sizes, but professional shuttlers need to use rackets that are within the permissible rules. Five different parts are fit together to form the complete racket, which is known as a frame.

These five parts are:

• The Stringed Area
• The Head
• The Throat
• The Shaft
• The Handle

We’ll look at them one by one below.

Stringed Area

As the name suggests, this is the area where strings are interwoven for the purpose of smashing the birdie or shuttle. It needs to be flat and have a consistent pattern of strings intertwined with each other.

The stringed area needs to be 280 mm in length, while it must be within a width of 220 mm.

The Head

Every racket has an oval-shaped head that covers the stringed area. The head has a width between 220 and 230 mm.

The Throat

The throat joins the badminton racket’s head with the shaft. You can also call it ‘T-Joint’. 

The T-Joint provides stable support to the head, though there are also rackets that don’t have the throat. In that case, the head is directly attached to the shaft.

The Shaft

The shaft is like a small pipe that connects the racket’s head to the handle. The BWF hasn’t specified the dimensions for the shaft.

The Handle

And here comes the last component, which is the handle. This is the part you will hold in your hand.

Similar to the shaft, the handle also doesn’t have set dimensions. So you go with a handle that’s comfortable in your hand.

Once all these parts are attached together, it completes the badminton racket’s frame, which is 680 mm in length and 230 mm in width. The racket may weigh between 70 to 95 grams.

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