- 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
![Men’s doubles world #1 Yoo Yeon Seong and his wife celebrated the birth of their first child today, welcoming their son into the world on the birthday of none other […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160605_1729_IndonesiaOpen2016_BP__0626-1-115x115.jpg "Yoo becomes a dad on partner’s birthday")
![Indian star Saina Nehwal (pictured) is looking forward to 3 weeks of rest after being discharged from a hospital in Mumbai following knee surgery, according to a report today in […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160814_0921_OlympicGames2016_Yves5453-115x115.jpg "Rest, rehab, then return in Saina’s future")
![Former Olympic and current World Champion Zhao Yunlei announced the end of her relationship with mixed doubles partner Zhang Nan, according to a report today from the China News Network, […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20151209_0136_WorldSuperseriesFinals2015_RS__6880-115x115.jpg "Zhao Yunlei announces end of relationship, career on hold")
![The first four post-Olympic tournaments all feature sizeable numbers of Olympians, with the Japan Open featuring an unexpectedly star-studded field, for an event that starts exactly one month after the […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20140615_1724_JapanOpen2014_Yves6000-115x115.jpg "Post-Olympic lull not so calm")
![Lee Yong Dae, Yoo Yeon Seong, Kim Sa Rang, and Bae Yeon Ju have all told Korea’s Yonhap News Agency that they are retiring from international play. Photos: Yves Lacroix […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Olympic-retirees-115x115.jpg "Korean Olympians retire")
![For the fourth straight year, India’s Pusarla Venkata Sindhu blew away a top Chinese opponent in the biggest event of the summer, as she ousted 2nd-seeded Wang Yihan in two […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160816_1959_OlympicGames2016_Yves5332-115x115.jpg "OLYMPICS WS QF – 4th August hot streak for Sindhu")
![After five straight Olympic women’s doubles badminton golds for China, Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl made sure there would be no sixth as they ousted Beijing winner Yu Yang […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160816_1206_OlympicGames2016_Yves1510_rotator-115x115.jpg "OLYMPICS Day 6 – Women’s doubles gold to get a new home!")
![Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying made history by securing the first ever Malysian mixed medal in Olympic history with a brilliant win over London silver medallists Xu/Ma. By […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160815_2005_OlympicGames2016_Yves7622_rotator-115x115.jpg "OLYMPICS Day 5 – Malaysian mixed boleh!")
![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}
