- 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
![Once again, the issue of international badminton players’ inability to submit their own entries for Badminton World Federation (BWF) tournaments is in the news. In the past few years, we’ve […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/ICHIMARU-TANAKA-20-JPN-YL-CanadaOpen2011-115x115.jpg "Poll – Who should be responsible for entering players in BWF tournaments?")
![It is frustrating that the Association is not working in the interests of the players but is focused only on benefit to the Association itself. – Oh Dong Hyun, lawyer […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Ko-Sung-Hyun-and-Shin-Baek-Cheol-at-NSF2017-115x115.jpg "Former World Champions file for injunction against Badminton Korea Association")
![The Malaysia Masters entry lists are out and they give a hint as to some pairing changes due in the new year for the top echelon of world doubles badminton. […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Debby-and-Ricky-115x115.jpg "New Year’s new pairs get sneak preview")
![Two-time Para-Badminton World Championship triple-crown winner Rachel Choong is in the running with three wheelchair athletes to be named the brand-new Female Para-Badminton Player of the Year. Photos: Don Hearn […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Para-Badminton-Awards-new_rotator-115x115.jpg "New Para-Badminton Player of the Year to be named Monday")
![The complete acceptance lists for the Superseries Finals have finally been published by the BWF, with three substitutions altogether, including the exclusion of All England mixed doubles winner Lu Kai. […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/XD-Podium-MalaysiaOpen2017-115x115.jpg "All England winner to sit out 2017 Finals")
![The latest edition of the China Badminton Super League began last week. Foreign participation seems to be more limited this year, but the Qingdao team has added Hendra Setiawan to […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/CBSL-Screenshot-115x115.jpg "2017-2018 China Badminton Super League Rosters")
![The BWF named the candidates for its 2017 Player of the Year and Most Promising Player awards this week and Chen Qingchen of China and Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen are the […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20171021_1247_DenmarkOpen2017_BPRS9402_rotator-115x115.jpg "Just two World Champions vying for Player of the Year")
![As we await the final entry lists for the Superseries Finals in Dubai, news has trickled in to answer certain question marks surrounding All England and World Champions. World Champion […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170921_1649_JapanOpen2017_BPYL6900-115x115.jpg "SS Finals 2017 – Post-Japan Open breaks ending and extending")
![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}
