- 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
![Chinese para-badminton players took seven golds overall at the Asian Para-Badminton Championships this past weekend in Beijing, and put forward both of the double gold medallists. Story and archive photos […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/IU5G9726_rotator-115x115.jpg "ASIAN PARA CHAMPS – New names and old take Beijing gold")
![Hong Kong’s Ng Ka Long won his home Superseries title on Sunday, the first home shuttler to title here since 2008. By Don Hearn. Photos: Raphael Sachetat / Badmintonphoto (live) […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20161127_1701_HongKongOpen2016_BPRS9014_rotator-115x115.jpg "HONG KONG OPEN 2016 Finals – 1st for Ka Long, first in 8 years for Hong Kong")
![India’s Sameer Verma stunned world #3 Jan Jorgensen and he and home favourite Ng Ka Long will decide who takes his first Superseries title in Hong Kong on Sunday. By […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20161126_2013_HongKongOpen2016_BPRS5639_rotator-115x115.jpg "HONG KONG OPEN 2016 SF – More of Sameer, not more of the same")
![Before the Korean National Para-Badminton Team departed for Beijing, Head Coach Kim Myo Jung spoke to Badzine about the Asian Para-Badminton Championships, next year’s Worlds in Korea, and the challenges […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/IU5G9831_rotator-115x115.jpg "Korea’s Para-Badminton World Champions ready for Asia")
![Twelve players still have yet to mathematically clinch their tickets to the Superseries Finals in Dubai, including defending women’s singles champion Nozomi Okuhara, who will almost certainly lose her spot […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Chasing-Nozomi-115x115.jpg "SS FINALS 2016 – Seventeen still chasing in Dubai race")
![Chang Ye Na and Lee So Hee were lucky in their third Superseries final and P. V. Sindhu in her third as China was let without a single title from […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20161120_1440_China_Open_2016_BPRS3974_rotator-115x115.jpg "CHINA OPEN 2016 Finals – 1st-time winners help to deny hosts a title")
![Marcus Fernaldi Gideon / Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo were among the many to squeak past their semi-final opponents at the China Open and they will appear in their 3rd Superseries final […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20161119_1409_ChinaOpen2016_BPRS1117-1_rotator-115x115.jpg "CHINA OPEN 2016 SF – Marcus and Kevin squeeze into 3rd final")
![There is a real Malaysia theme to this third instalment of our anniversary series, with a lot of Korea and Japan thrown in as three more of our volunteers bring […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Fans.Malaysia-12-DIV-YL-MalaysiaOpen2010_rotator-115x115.jpg "10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SERIES – Tales from the mixed zones, Part III")
![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}
