What are the length and width of a badminton court for singles?

Under the Laws of Badminton (Badminton World Federation), a singles court is 13.40 m (44 feet) long and 5.18 m (17 feet) wide.

Badminton court measurements:

• Length: 13.40 m for both singles and doubles.
• Width: 5.18 m for singles and 6.10 m (20 feet) for doubles.
• The short service line is 1.98 m from the net.
• The long service line for doubles is 0.76 m inside the back boundary line; for singles, the back boundary line itself is the long service line.
• Net height: 1.55 m at the posts and 1.524 m at the centre.
• The lines are 40 mm wide and are part of the area they enclose.

Other badminton facts:

• The shuttlecock has 16 feathers fixed in a cork base and weighs 4.74-5.50 g.
• A game is played to 21 points (rally scoring), and a match is the best of three games.
• Badminton became an Olympic sport at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
• The sport was earlier known as "Poona" in India and was named after Badminton House in England.

Comparison with other court sizes:

• Tennis singles court: 23.77 m x 8.23 m.
• Tennis doubles court: 23.77 m x 10.97 m.
• Volleyball court: 18 m x 9 m.
• Basketball court: 28 m x 15 m.
• Kabaddi (men): 13 m x 10 m including lobbies.
• Table tennis table: 2.74 m x 1.525 m.

Indian badminton greats include Prakash Padukone, Pullela Gopichand, Saina Nehwal, P. V. Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen.

Why not the other options?

• ✗13.40 m and 6.10 m are the dimensions of a doubles badminton court.
• ✗23.77 m and 8.23 m are the dimensions of a singles tennis court.
• ✗18 m and 9 m are the dimensions of a volleyball court.