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A badminton court is 13.4 metres long

It is 6.1 metres wide for doubles and about 5.18 metres for singles The net is 1.524 metres high at the posts and dips to 1.55 metres at the centre. A short service line sits 1.98 metres from the net, and a doubles service line is marked further back. The lines are only 40 millimetres wide, and a shuttle landing on the line is in. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Badminton World Federation

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A badminton court is 13.4 metres long: the short answers

Where does this come from, and can I check it?: It is 6.1 metres wide for doubles and about 5.18 metres for singles. The figure is taken from Badminton World Federation, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.