- 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
![Lin Chun Yi became the first teenager to win the men’s singles title in a badminton event with 6-figure prize money since Lin Dan did it back in 2003. By […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190714_1520_USOpen2019_BPLT1490_rotator-115x115.jpg "U.S. OPEN 2019 Finals – Lin the first teen to win since Lin")
![It was youth over experience as 19-year-old Li Shifeng bested India’s Parupalli Kashyap but podium experience counted as past champions prevailed in two other finals at the 2019 Canada Open. […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190707_1716_CanadaOpen2019_BPYL2918_rotator-115x115.jpg "CANADA OPEN 2019 Finals – Li Shifeng wins first senior title")
![2016 Canada Open champions Setyana Mapasa / Gronya Somerville are back in a major final for the first time in nearly 3 years, squeaking through their 2019 Canada Open semi-final […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190706_1817_CanadaOpen2019_BPYL6361_rotator-115x115.jpg "CANADA OPEN 2019 SF – Australians back in the final")
![Marcus Ellis became the first Englishman in more than 3 decades to win a major badminton doubles double when he took two golds at the European Games in Minsk. By […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190630_1244_EuropeanGames2019_BPMP0096_rotator-115x115.jpg "EUROPEAN GAMES 2019 – Double doubles gold for Ellis")
![Former singles world #1s Carolina Marin and Son Wan Ho have both been in the news and on social media this week, talking about their prospects for returning to the […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Son-Marin_rotator-115x115.jpg "Former world #1s aim to return to court in time for Tokyo")
![Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei officially announced the end of his illustrious badminton career, speaking to a large crowd of journalists at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today. It has […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170312_1423_AllEngland2017_BPYN1431_rotator-115x115.jpg "Lee Chong Wei calls time on a brilliant badminton career")
![The entry lists for the Canada Open Super 100 event were published today, revealing that the men’s doubles draw will feature no fewer than 5 former world #1 shuttlers, including […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20140831_1519_WorldChampionships2014-CN2258-115x115.jpg "5 former world #1s headed to Canada Open")
![China has received an additional 4 invitations to the upcoming BWF World Championships, bringing them just short of the maximum of 20 entries as the lists of badminton’s best fill […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190404_1618_MalaysiaOpen2019_BPYL9290-115x115.jpg "China nears a perfect ‘score’ for World Championships")
![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}
