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Origins of Badminton 🏸 In the mid-19th century, British army officers stationed in Poona, now Pune, adapted an old shuttlecock game by introducing a net and formal rules. The game, first called “Poona,” became the foundation of modern badminton. Its origins trace back thousands of years to Chinese and Greek versions like Ti Jian Zi and Battledore & Shuttlecock, where the goal was simply to keep the shuttle from touching the ground. When British officers later took the Poona game to England, the