- 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
![Australia, Denmark, and Canada, all repeated as mixed team champions in their respective continents on the weekend, with only Australia being made to work for it in their final tie. […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190217_1634_EuropeanMixedTeam2019__MIK8757_rotator-115x115.jpg "3 repeat as continental team champions")
![18-year-old Oscar Guo took the Oceania men’s singles title, while Gronya Somerville took the doubles double as Australia again walked away with all but one continental title. By Don Hearn. […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/OSCAR-GUO-OPEN-MS-CHAMPION_rotator-115x115.jpg "OCEANIA CHAMPS 2019 – Guo takes one for New Zealand")
![Ratchanok Intanon begins her second straight year with a Super 500 title, winning her second Malaysia Masters title. By Don Hearn. Photos: Badmintonphoto (live) 5 badminton aces who featured in […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190120_1521_MalaysiaMasters2019_BP011835_rotator-115x115.jpg "MALAYSIA MASTERS 2019 – Another January, another title for Intanon")
![Agus Dwi Santoso and Wong Tat Meng both found new countries in which to apply their expertise for the start of 2019 as Thailand and Korea are among those gearing […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190113_2050_ThailandMasters2019_AA1I4215_featured-115x115.jpg "Wong and Santoso join New Year’s international coaches’ shuffle")
![Loh Kean Yew won the biggest title of his career in Bangkok today, becoming the first Singaporean since 2004 to become men’s singles champion in a tournament with six-figure prize […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190113_1852_ThailandMasters2019_AA1I3346_rotator-115x115.jpg "THAILAND MASTERS 2019 – Loh ends a long wait for Singapore")
![The BKA signed a 4-year contract with Yonex today in Seoul, ending a period of uncertainty as Korea’s national badminton team was without an official equipment sponsor for over a […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Yonex-ceremony-7350-115x115.jpg "Korea goes back to Yonex after 10 years")
![As the second season of the BWF World Tour gets set to kick off, we ask Badzine readers for their opinion of the new qualification method for the season finale. […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20181106_1815_FuzhouChinaOpen2018_BP018850-115x115.jpg "Poll – World Tour or Superseries: Which season finale qualifying method was better?")
![For the second time in a month, the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) has had to accept the resignation of a pair of Rio silver medallists. Today, BAM published an […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Goh-Tan-and-Chan-Goh-composite-115x115.jpg "2nd Rio silver medallist pair in one month leaves BAM")
![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}
