- 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
![The best in the badminton world are gearing up for next season – some resting, some training, some playing winter leagues – but as they do, we take a look […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20181104_1443_MacauOpen2018_AA1I3561_rotator-115x115.jpg "2018 by the numbers: Badminton’s bests, mosts, and firsts of last season")
![Singles world #1s Tai Tzu Ying and Kento Momota each earned more in prize money in 2018 than any badminton player in history has previously won in a single year. […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Tai-and-Momota-Prize-Money-leaders-2018_rotator-115x115.jpg "Tai and Momota break US$400,000 in badminton prize winnings for 2018")
![Korea completed tryouts for its 2019 national badminton team on the weekend but the results, published Monday by the Badminton Korea Association (BKA), featured mostly new blood in terms of […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20181116-1622-WorldJuniorChampionships2018_LUIS0955_featured-115x115.jpg "Korean national badminton team gets 8 new players, 3 new coaches")
![Pusarla Venkata Sindhu finally won a truly top-tier final, at the World Tour Finals in Guangzhou, as three runners-up got the better of the players who denied them World Championship […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20181216_1522_WorldTourFinals2018_BPRA9963_rotator-115x115.jpg "WORLD TOUR FINALS 2018 – Silver Sindhu turns gold")
![The Badminton World Federation (BWF) handed out its awards for Players of the Year on Monday in Guangzhou, with the biggest honours going to Huang Yaqiong and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20181210_1936_WorldTourFinals2018_LV2_0940_rotator-115x115.jpg "Big winners awarded on BWF’s ‘Night of Nights’")
![With the 2018 World Tour set to wrap up, the entries are already in for the first events of next season, and several top players are slated to appear in […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20141120_1329_HongKongOpen2014-RSC_7494-115x115.jpg "New pairs due in January")
![The BWF made the obvious choices for 2018 Player of the Year candidates, naming the big winners in all five categories, including mixed doubles World Champions Huang Yaqiong and Zheng […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Players-of-the-Year_rotator-115x115.jpg "Close race for BWF Player of the Year Awards")
![Former Commonwealth Games gold medallist Woon Khe Wei has retired from international badminton, The Star reported yesterday. The Malaysian daily said that the former world #9 took the decision after […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170523_1540_SudirmanCup2017_BPYN8822-115x115.jpg "Woon Khe Wei calls time on career")
![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}
