- 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
![Olympic season is upon us, mainstream sportswriters are writing about badminton again and in North America, that means the backyard barbecue meme is back! By Don Hearn. Photos: Badmintonphoto Seen […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20130615_1049_IndonesiaOpen2013__rap1151_rotator-115x115.jpg "Editorial – Not in my barbecue!")
![Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi are the first non-Chinese top seeds in 20 years in an Olympic women’s doubles badminton competition, but can they turn it into gold? By Don […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160313_1407_AllEngland2016_BP__2470_rotator-115x115.jpg "OLYMPIC WD 2016 Preview – Breaking China’s 20-year lock")
![The four seeds from London’s mixed doubles badminton event are returning as top contenders for gold but new power from Korea, Britain, and Indonesia will be spicing things up in […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20150913_1325_JapanOpen2015_RSAL7637_rotator-115x115.jpg "OLYMPIC XD 2016 Preview – Familiar faces, familiar flags")
![Two double gold medallists and one gold medallist doing double duty are converging on the Rio Olympic Games badminton competition. Who has the best chance of reaching a total of […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/3rd-gold_fb-115x115.jpg "POLL – Who will win a 3rd Olympic gold in Rio?")
![Russian news agency TASS reported yesterday that the Badminton World Federation (BWF) had allowed Russia’s four qualified badminton players to compete in the Rio Olympics. On Monday, the IOC made […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160330_1043_IndiaOpen2016_Yves0840-115x115.jpg "TASS reports Russians allowed by BWF")
![Men’s doubles will continue to be the only badminton discipline without a repeat Olympic champion, but four past Olympic gold medallists – all with different partners – are among the […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/CAI-FU-30-WorldChampionships2013_rotator-115x115.jpg "OLYMPIC MD 2016 Preview – 4 big guns battle for 2nd gold")
![All but one of the winners of the 2016 Vietnam Open celebrated their first career Grand Prix titles, including 17-year-old Yeo Jia Min of Singapore. By Don Hearn. Photos: Badmintonphoto […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20151106_1440_WorldJuniorTeamChampionships2015_RS__1517_rotator-115x115.jpg "VIETNAM OPEN 2016 Finals – Yeo and 6 others win first Grand Prix")
![Qingzi Ouyang once again led Canada’s youngsters to 4 of 5 titles at the Pan Am Junior Badminton Championships. By Don Hearn. Photo: Yves Lacroix for Badmintonphoto (archives) 2015 champion […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160629_0945_CanadaOpen2016_Yves8902-115x115.jpg "PAN AM JUNIORS – Ouyang defends as Canada takes 4")
![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}
