- 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
![20-year-olds Han Chengkai and Zhou Haodong upset the world #1s to duel with the Danish 8th seeds for the biggest title of either pair’s career so far. By Don Hearn. […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20180922_1534_ChinaOpen2018_YVES0442_rotator-115x115.jpg "CHINA OPEN 2018 SF – Han and Zhou topple the top pair")
![The BWF World Tour is back up over 500 from next week with the Japan Open and most of the badminton world’s top 10 will make their first appearances since […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20180722_1653_SingaporeOpen2018_MIK_3150_rotator-115x115.jpg "Top shuttlers back to work from next week")
![Singapore’s Yeo Jia Min may have won back the Vietnam Open title she took 2 years ago but for former World Champion Ko Sung Hyun, it was the first time […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160310_2013_AllEngland2016_BP__6478_rotator-115x115.jpg "VIETNAM OPEN 2018 – Ko and Yeo win back titles")
![Lee Chong Wei and Son Wan Ho have both decided to withdraw from the 2018 World Championships. Within a week of the kickoff of the 2018 BWF World Championships in […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20171216_2112_WorldSuperseriesFinals2017_BP018020-115x115.jpg "Two former men’s singles medallists to miss Worlds")
![Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja and Hafiz Faizal made the most of their first ever post-Superseries final, as did Kanta Tsuneyama, as two of the most lucrative Thailand Open titles to date […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20180715_1348_ThailandOpen2018_MIK_1713-1_rotator-115x115.jpg "THAILAND OPEN 2018 – 1st-time finalists victorious!")
![Reigning All England champion and former World Champion Kamilla Rytter Juhl has just announced big news times two! The 34-year-old has revealed she is retiring from competitive badminton, as she […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20180318_1700_AllEngland2018_BP018951-115x115.jpg "All England champion retires, expecting a baby")
![Former World Champions Ko Sung Hyun and Shin Baek Cheol have entered their first international badminton tournament in over 2 years, in Vietnam, where Ko won his first international title […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160603_1852_IndonesiaOpen2016_BP__5649-115x115.jpg "Ko Sung Hyun goes back to the beginning")
![For the second straight week, a BWF World Tour event will be splitting up the massive 80-match first round into two days, a logical step for streamlining the scheduling of […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160530_1731_IndonesiaOpen2016_BP__0579_rotator-115x115.jpg "BWF World Tour – Making Tuesday a “used day”")
![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}
