Amid the rising popularity, badminton enthusiasts began forming clubs, or “parties”, to meet and play the game.

[1] It was during this period that the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) was established to promote the sport and organise competitions.

After the World War II (1942–45), Singapore would reached the height of its badminton success in the 1950s with the rise of players such as Wong Peng Soon, Ong Poh Lim and Ismail Marjan.

[9] At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Terry Hee and Jessica Tan clinched Singapore's first ever badminton mixed doubles gold.

Students from Chinese education played it as well, but badminton might seem to be less widespread for the Chinese-educated who were usually less wealthy as compared to the English-educated.

Nonetheless, the sport's wide acceptance certainly had to do with the ease at which how the preparation of the game was made—a minimum of only two players are needed and the court can be anywhere where the ground is flat and uninhibited by wind.

[11] The association, supported by patrons[1] such as Tan Chin Tuan (director of the OCBC bank),[12] Song Ong Siang (an influential figure of the Straits Chinese community)[13] and Aw Boon Haw (a well-known Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist)[14] aimed to promote the game as well as to select the best players from various clubs by organising games among the clubs, so as to produce local athletes to participate in the renowned tournaments among the regional and international community.

It currently serves as a sport venue for badminton trainings and tournaments like SBA's National Age-Group Singles and Doubles Championships and the Li-Ning Singapore Youth Invitational Series.

[25] There are other SBA sanctioned tournaments, all of which are tier 2 and below events such as Alpha Age Group Series, Brave Sword Series, Papago Badminton Carnival, Pesta Sukan (Badminton), Chinese Swimming Club Age Group Tournament, Berita Harian / Pilot Pen / Ashaway Youth Games and KSA Challenge, which offers national ranking points as well.

[29] Singapore would also clinch a mixed team bronze in the Commonwealth Games held later that year, its second since the 2014 edition.

[30] Wong Peng Soon and Ong Poh Lim were the only two shuttlers till date to have won the All England Open Badminton Championships, when they represented the state of Singapore (before independence) to participate in this prestigious tournament.

Wong, Ong and Ismail are also members of the great Malayan teams (where Singapore was part of back then) that dominated the Thomas Cup in the late 1940s to the mid-1950s.

[9] In 2022, the husband and wife pair of Terry Hee and Jessica Tan clinched a historic badminton mixed doubles gold at the Commonwealth Games.