23-year-old Xavier Lim is 135cm tall and he’s Singapore’s only professional badminton player who has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. But his condition doesn’t mean he gets any special concessions. “Everything in the game is the same – the height of the net, size of the court, the shoes I wear and the rackets we use,” the 23-year-old says.
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