Badminton is the world's fastest racquet sport. The shuttlecock, made of cork and goose feathers, can whip across the net as fast as 260 kilometres per hour.

Badminton can firmly stake its claim to be the worlds fastest racket sport, with smashes reaching speeds of up to 332 kph. Chinese men's doubles star Fu Haifeng of China set the official world smash record of 332 km/h (206 mph) on June 3, 2005 in the Sudirman Cup in Beijing.

The Badminton World Federation conducted speed trials for the first time at one of its major events, with microwave sensors recording the speed of smashes on the main court at the world mixed team championships. The fastest smash recorded in the singles competition is 305 km/h (189 mph) by Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia. While world number two Kenneth Jonassen of Denmark has recorded the fastest smash for a singles player at 298 kph.

And with womens singles player Huang Sui hitting at 257 km/h, tennis star Andy Roddick's world-record serve of 246 kph is some way off of badminton's blistering pace.

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