Made with Blender 2.68a + Cycles
Made this for my sister who loves to play Badminton. It's a very simple scene, used the array modifier to create the racket mesh. The only tedious part was having the strings come out and loop around the holes on the side of the racket frame.
For the Shuttlecock feathers, I used a transparent png file.
Used plane emitters as primary light source and a sun lamp.
Dimensions
864x1152
Sampling
1000 Samples
Clamp 0.00
Integrator settings all set to 8
Shadows - Checked
No Caustics - Unchecked
Filter Glossy 0.00
Render time approx 35 mins (CPU only)