Badminton’s global governing body swatted down a plan on Saturday to adopt a new scoring system that favours faster matches after players and associations expressed angst over the proposed changes.
The Badminton World Federation was considering amending the rules to make sets shorter in a shift that supporters argued would attract more fans to the sport, which already has a large following in Asia.
But the proposal, which would have seen players compete against each other in the best of five 11-point sets instead of the current set-up of three 21-point sets, failed to pass, according to a Facebook post on the organisation’s official page.
“Badminton will continue to be played under the 3×21 scoring system,” the post said, adding that the proposal actually received more votes for the changes — 129 — than the 123 that opposed, but it fell short of the required two-thirds majority.
In a later statement BWF president Poul-Erik Hoyer said it accepted the result.
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