- 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
![Europe lost three of its top contenders at the Korea Open to Korean underdogs, starting with Jan Jorgensen’s ousting by veteran Lee Hyun Il. By Don Hearn, Badzine Correspondent live […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160929_1410_KoreaOpen2016_BPYL8979_rotator-115x115.jpg "KOREA OPEN 2016 R16 – Koreans young and old dominate Europe")
![Korean teens Kim Hyang Im and Kim Ga Eun helped create a winning atmosphere for the local women’s singles contingent, which managed to pile at least six players into the […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160928_1127_KoreaOpen2016_BPYL7193-115x115.jpg "KOREA OPEN 2016 R32 – Local teens spring singles surprises")
![Chinese news site Tencent Sports reported yesterday that 22-year-old Tang Yuanting, too, was surprised to hear the BWF announce her retirement. Photo: Yves Lacroix for Badmintonphoto According to the Tencent […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160410_1401_MalaysiaOpen2016_Yves2222-115x115.jpg "Tang Yuanting surprised by news of own “retirement”")
![The most jarring retirement news yet from China emerged today as the Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced on their Facebook page that world #2 women’s doubles player Tang Yuanting was […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160816_1202_OlympicGames2016_Yves1416-115x115.jpg "Tang Yuanting, world #2, quits at 22")
![The Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced today that they had received confirmation from Chinese badminton authorities that a total of five top women’s shuttlers from the badminton powerhouse had retired […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160521_1644_ThomasUberCup2016_YN__6295_rotator-115x115.jpg "Wang Shixian joins China’s retired list")
![Chinese women’s singles star Wang Yihan chose the Mid-Autumn Festival to announce her retirement from international badminton, according to reports today in Sina Sports. The 28-year-old had been entered in […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20151113_2025_ChinaOpen2015_Yves9936-115x115.jpg "Wang Yihan hangs up her racquet")
![Badmintonphoto’s Yves Lacroix kept very busy at last month’s Rio Olympic Games, and we present to you a complete gallery of all 172 athletes in the badminton competition. Photos: Yves […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160818_1340_OlympicGames2016_Yves6928-1_rotator-115x115.jpg "Rio ought to be in pictures")
![Ronald Alexander / Melati Daeva Oktavianti took the first Grand Prix Gold title of their career as Indonesia took won two at the Indonesia Masters in Balikpapan. By Don Hearn. […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20151227_2258_CopenhagenMastsers2015_RS__3605-115x115.jpg "INDONESIA MASTERS 2016 Finals – More mixed gold for Indonesia")
![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}
