Badminton All England 2010: history

By Geoff Hinder Published: 10:00AM GMT 06 Mar 2010

Smash and grab: Ethel Thomson was runner-up in ladies doubles in the initial All England 1899 and was initial ladies singles hold up in 1900

On 10 Mar 1898 Mr Percy Buckley, cabinet member of the Guildford Badminton Club, organized the initial ever Open Badminton Tournament. This contest was hold at the Drill Hall in the centre of Guildford and was a one-day eventuality with usually doubles being played.

The initial contest was such a success that the Badminton Association motionless to hold their own eventuality the following year, and after a lot of care it was motionless to hold the initial Championships on 4 Apr 1899 at the London Scottish Drill Hall in Westminster.

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The breadth of the net was usually sixteen feet and the posts had canes extending on top of them to assist settlement either the convey had past over the net. The lines of the courts were chalked out on the sunrise of the contest prior to fool around commenced.

63 players entered with no seedings (introduced in 1932) whilst the winners perceived dual guineas (�2.10)

In the early days of the All England Badminton Championships the tub convey was used, but were not of subsequent to size, weight and unvaried strength. As was the case, at the initial Championships dual of the officials had outlayed all day weighing, pleat and strengthening the shuttles.

In the second year some-more events were combined and scarcely 300 witness tickets sole over the dual days.

They witnessed Ethel Thomson, of Devon, turn the initial All England Ladies Singles champion. Along with Muriel Lucas, the span would browbeat womens badminton in for the subsequent 6 years. Thomson in the future became a Wimbledon singles hold up in 1912.

The initial mens singles hold up was Sidney Smith, of Stroud, again a great customary tennis player and a Wimbledon tennis champion.