A Contrastive Analysis Of Technique And Tactic Characteristics Of The Domestic And International Top-ranking Badminton Men’s Doubles Players

For the past few years, Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng have represented the highest level of Chineseman’s badminton doubles. The application of techniques and tactics of Cai Yun, Fu Haifeng and othertop-ranking men’s doubles players are induced and analyzed in this thesis in terms of their similaritiesand differences. The data of placements of their service and return of service, techniques of service,return of service and the third-racket stroke etc are get and meta-researched through watching thevideos of their games against each other. The law is drawn based on the statistics about the scoremeans, techniques and tactics applied in recent years by world top-ranking man’s badminton doublescombinations on the second and third stage, which aims to assist China badminton national team withcompetition and training.In this thesis, each round of scoring and losing point of man’s badminton doubles is divided intothree stages: service and return of service (the first to third racket), attack and defense (the fourth toeleventh racket), multi-racket (the twelfth to final racket). The result is draw based on the statisticsand analysis of the application of techniques and tactics on each stage:（1）The greatest man’s badminton doubles players in the world mainly use short low servicetogether with long service and deep service. The placements of their service are mainly in No.1and5courts, which account for88.7percent.（2）The placements of return of service are mainly in No.4,5and6courts, followed by No.2court. The major return of service technique is push shot followed by net shot, lung stroke etc.（3）The technique most frequently applied in the third racket by the six groups of man’sbadminton doubles players is drive which accounts for30.2percent, followed by lofted shot, pushshot and intercept; what’s more, it is a grudge game of the third-racket period.（4）On the second stage, the proportions of aggressive smash and drop increase sharply; so dothe proportions of defending back and side stops; the game is attacking and defense. What’s more, theserving side takes hold more easily than the receiving side.（5）The grudge game, the multi-racket stage, is mainly attacking and defense formed by smashand lift, attaching against each other formed by shoulder-high drive.（6）In each round the technique applied of final-racket period is generally aggressive in whichthe scoring rate of smash is the highest followed by intercept, drive and push shot while the error rateof drive is the highest followed by lift, intercept and smash. The general rates of error and mistakes tosend points are higher than the initiative scoring rate.