Time for Change in Badminton Games

Time have come for Badminton games to take a change. What happened recently during few tournaments shows that technology should be introduced into the game to avoid more controversial and ugly decisions.

During the recent concluded Korean Open, we have seen what no one ever seen before in Badminton world. World No 1 player Lin Dan almost having a brawl with his countryman, Korean coach, Li Mao. But what causes all this? Can this be avoided and the games being played under clean and fair manner?

Just look at what happen to other racket games like tennis and cricket, they have introduce the Hawk Eye system in order to prevent doubted line calls, favoutisms towards certain players etc. Even football do have some sort of technologies included in their games, although it is minor, but that shows technology have become part of sporting event today.

I don't like what is being done by either Lin Dan, Li Mao nor the line judges. But if we look back at history, Korean line judges tends to have the history of favouring their home players. It must go all the way back in the early 90s to talk about this and back then, without all these modern hi-tech camera around, the line judge can call a shot that is well out of boundary "IN". We can see from the TV screen that the shuttle dropped right in between the 2 side lines, which is out for single, but the judge said IN, to everyone's surprise. Then came last year's China Open, where a few calls went against Lee Chong Wei.

Afterall, line judges still human, and they are surely favouring them own home players, and no matter how "fair" they are, they will surely give any doubt decision advantages towards their players. I'm sure everyone will do the same. So how to prevent this from happening, is by introducing a widely favoured system, called Hawk Eye!