- Description
- Don Hearn is an Editor and Correspondent who hails from a badminton-loving town in rural Canada. He joined the Badzine team in 2006 to provide coverage of the Korean badminton scene and is committed to helping Badzine to promote badminton to the place it deserves as a global sport. Contact him at: don @ badzine.net
![Two Koreans are to become the first foreign coaches ever to join the Chinese national badminton team but hopes may be highest for Chinese coach Li Mao, who is rejoining […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170528_1916_SudirmanCup2017_BPLV2568-115x115.jpg "Not 1, but 3 former Korea coaches to join Chinese staff")
![Korean daily the Donga Ilbo reported today that Kang Kyung Jin, former Head Coach of the Korean national badminton team, would be signing a contract on Tuesday to join the […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170527_1634_SudirmanCup2017_BPLV7821-115x115.jpg "Historic change for Team China announced in Korean media")
![With the top women following generations of men in refusing to be distracted by the level doubles discipline, mixed doubles has come to be ruled almost exclusively by specialists. By […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190525_1146_SudirmanCup2019_BPMP8793_rotator-115x115.jpg "All mixing, no matching: The specialization of doubles specialists")
![Pusarla Venkata Sindhu became the first Indian ever to win a World Championship title, playing in her 3rd consecutive final, while 3 winners repeated and the last won a 3rd […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190825_1438_WorldChampionships2019_BPYN9917_rotator-115x115.jpg "WORLDS 2019 Finals – Sindhu champion on a day of threes!")
![Semi-finals day at the World Championships ended with two upsets of 2018 finalists from China, and Dechapol Puavaranukroh / Sapsiree Taerattanachai become the first Thais ever to reach a doubles […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190824_2101_WorldChampionships2019_BPMR_8301_rotator-115x115.jpg "WORLDS 2019 SF – Thai pair in the final for the first time ever")
![It was a very happy weekend for former Pan Am Games gold medallist Toby Ng, who got married on Saturday, but in a way, it was the couple who gave […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/25-Reasons-WHY-BADMINTON-is-Like-Marriage_thumb-115x115.jpg "Badminton like marriage? Let us count the ways…")
![Former World Champions Ko Sung Hyun and Zhang Nan were on the other side of the Eurasian continent winning Super 100 titles in Akita a day before the Worlds kicks […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190730_1759_ThailandOpen2019_BPYL8576_rotator-115x115.jpg "JAPAN MASTERS 2019 – On eve of Worlds, past champs busy winning elsewhere")
![Former world #2 Kim Sa Rang revealed in an interview yesterday that he and former national team-mate Eom Hye Won will be exchanging vows in December. Kim was giving an […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Eom-and-Kim-from-Gwangju-115x115.jpg "Another Korean badminton couple to tie the knot in December")
![Chae Yu Jung / Seo Seung Jae became the only repeat mixed doubles Aussie champions during its Sydney era. Shi Yu Qi and Ou Xuan Yi / Liu Yu Chen […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/cr_20221120_1349_AustralianOpen2022_BPLV0036_rotator-36x36.jpg "AUSTRALIAN OPEN Finals – Historic repeat the feat"){kind=small}
![Blink or leave your seat to buy fast food and it would turn out to have a different outcome from what you were initially led to believe in more than […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/cr_20221119_1522_AustralianOpen2022_BPLV0034_rotator-36x36.jpg "AUSTRALIAN OPEN SF – Fancy seeing you on Sunday"){kind=small}
![In doubles, at a baseline level the pair needs to be reliable and then have something special on top of that to make it further. By Aaron Wong, Badzine Correspondent […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/2022-QF-WD1-36x36.jpg "AUSTRALIAN OPEN QF – Finding that little bit extra"){kind=small}
![Drama mixed with entertainment fueled the marquee singles matches. By Aaron Wong, Badzine Correspondent live in Sydney. Photos: Badmintonphoto (archives) World #3 vs world #27 The ultra-popular and charismatic 2021 […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/cr_20220715_2118_SingaporeOpen2022_BPYL4448_rotator-36x36.jpg "AUSTRALIAN OPEN R16 – What actually happened in the last match of the night?"){kind=small}
![It was like a final in the first round as Seo Seung Jae and Kang Min Hyuk took on recent Hylo Open winners Lu/Yang in Sydney. By Aaron Wong, Badzine […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/cr_20220705_1622_MalaysiaMasters2022_BPES3440_rotator-36x36.jpg "AUSTRALIAN OPEN R32 – Wish it were longer"){kind=small}
