- 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
![Lee Chong Wei won the 12th Malaysia Open title of his career with a brilliant win over Kento Momota. By Don Hearn. Photos: Yves Lacroix / Badmintonphoto (live) Lee Chong […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20180701_1650_MalaysiaOpen2018_YVES5223_rotator-115x115.jpg "MALAYSIA OPEN 2018 Finals – Lee Chong Wei makes it a cool dozen")
![Hiroyuki Endo and Yuta Watanabe beat Asian Champions Li/Liu in a 78-minute marathon match to give Endo an 8th try at a top-tier title. By Don Hearn. Photos: Yves Lacroix […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20180630_1853_MalaysiaOpen2018_YVES0186_rotator-115x115.jpg "MALAYSIA OPEN 2018 SF – Endo back in a major final")
![Marcus Ellis became the first English player in nearly 13 years to win a doubles double at a major badminton tournament, taking two at the 2018 Canada Open. By Don […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/04092018-1136-CommonwealthGames2018_LVA_9403_rotator-115x115.jpg "CANADA OPEN 2018 – 1st doubles double for Ellis")
![Former mixed doubles world #1 Kim Ha Na of Korea has retired from international badminton competition. Photos: Yves Lacroix / Badmintonphoto Kim, who was sitting at world #5 as of […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20180123_1917_IndonesiaMasters2018_BP013759_featured-115x115.jpg "Former world #1 Kim Ha Na bids farewell")
![Chinese shuttlers took 3 titles at the U.S. Open on Sunday, including the first for Ren Xiangyu, who became the first teenage boy to win a title in the new […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/rotator20180617_1912_USOpen2018_BO9P5791-115x115.jpg "U.S. OPEN 2018 Finals – Ren takes a World Tour first!")
![Korean underdogs finished off the 3rd upset of top-seeded shuttlers this week, putting both Kim Won Ho and Kim Hye Jeong into finals in an event their mothers won 25 […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Kim-Hye-Jeong-NSF2086_rotator-115x115.jpg "U.S. OPEN 2018 SF – Like mothers, like offspring?")
![North Korean badminton players may be invited to South Korea’s 99th Annual National Sports Festival, which will take place in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, this coming October. Over the past […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/NSF2027-115x115.jpg "North Korean shuttlers may be invited to play down south")
![An appallingly weak field at the 2018 Singapore Open is offset by the promise of returning champions in all 5 disciplines, including 6-time winner Liliyana Natsir and 3-time winning partner […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20140413-1403-SingaporeOpen2014-RAPH6415-115x115.jpg "Past champions bright spots in Singapore Open’s weakest field in years")
![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}
