- 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
![Korea went five for five on quarter-finals day at the Singapore Open, with Sung Ji Hyun and Jung/Shin eliminating the last of China’s women, but the women’s singles has intriguing […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170414_1959_SingaporeOpen2017_BPYL3602-115x115.jpg "SINGAPORE OPEN 2017 QF – Korea, Spain, U.S. flawless in quarters")
![Indonesia’s Hardianto helped score the first of four wins that produced first time Superseries semi-finalists at the expense of top seeds as he and Berry Angriawan downed Olympic silver medallists […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170414_1538_SingaporeOpen2017_BPYL2808_rotator-115x115.jpg "SINGAPORE OPEN 2017 QF – 4 seeds down to 1st-timers")
![Singapore’s Terry Hee and Tan Wei Han were inches away from a huge upset over the All England champions but in the end had to leave the upsets to visiting […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170413_1522_SingaporeOpen2017_BPYL1317_rotator-115x115.jpg "SINGAPORE OPEN 2017 R16 – Home challenge ends with a nail-biter")
![Top ten players Viktor Axelsen and Chou Tien Chen both suffered upsets in the first round of the Singapore Open after both singles defending champions had already been shown the […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170412_1946_SingaporeOpen2017_BPYL0685_rotator-115x115.jpg "SINGAPORE OPEN 2017 R32 – Seeds following defending champs through exit")
![The Badminton World Federation (BWF) published the list of nominees yesterday ahead of voting for the BWF Athletes’ Commission. Four positions need to be filled on the Commission. Three current […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Athletes-Commission-collage-115x115.jpg "9 Candidates line up for BWF Athletes’ Commission")
![Lin Dan captured his first ever Malaysia Open title, beating 11-time winner Lee Chong Wei in convincing fashion. By Don Hearn. Photos: Mikael Ropars / Badmintonphoto (live) 11 years ago, […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170409_1641_MalaysiaOpen2017_BPYL7093_rotator-115x115.jpg "MALAYSIA OPEN 2017 Finals – No Kuching comeback for Lee Chong Wei")
![Mixed doubles world #1 Zheng Siwei has reached his first men’s doubles final in over a year, as he partnered star Fu Haifeng after a long hiatus. Team-mate Huang Yaqiong […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20170408_1523_MalaysiaOpen2017_BPYL5671_rotator-115x115.jpg "MALAYSIA OPEN 2017 SF – Huang and Zheng each in hunt for two")
![Shortly after the Badminton World Federation (BWF) had confirmed that England had withdrawn from the 2017 Sudirman Cup competition, Badminton England (BE) issued a statement on their website, expressing its […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Podium.England-057-DIV-AS-SudirmanCup2007-115x115.jpg "Badminton England issues statement on Sudirman withdrawal")
![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}
