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I was just googling this question and this thread came up. Sorry for resurrecting the discussion.Opalescent;236495So i'm a TT player and one of my mates is a badminton player. We were having a debate on which one is more popular and I was really unsure.
Does anyone know how these two sports compare In terms of number of spectators, or number of people that play the sports, based on country, or on a global level?
What about in China? How does the popularity between TT and badminton compare there?
EDIT: My observation in New Zealand is that badminton seems more a little bit more popular at the club level, and there are more badminton clubs than TT clubs around.
But if you include the very casual (garage players, table in the office or at summer camp) then TT probably beats badminton.
Beyond club level i'm not sure since NZ isn't known for either of these sports, and so both of the professional scenes are very small.
I am a school teacher and was wondering why every school has a big badminton team but no tt team. In my current school of 800, there are 50 students being trained for badminton, 0 for tt.
I started a tt club in a school before. Feedback from students include:
- TT is too hard to pick up
- TT requires very precise techniques that take time to learn
- TT takes longer to setup and pack up
That sort of explain why badminton is very popular among teens. You know many of them have short attention span.
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