- 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
![Hong Kong’s men’s badminton team upset Thailand to take the last remaining quarter-final spot at the Thomas and Uber Cup Finals in Kunshan. By Don Hearn. Photos: Yohan Nonotte for […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160518_1613_ThomasUberCup2016_YN__9128_rotator-115x115.jpg "THOMAS CUP – Hong Kong snatches last quarter-final spot")
![After news surfaced earlier in the week that Niluka Karunaratne of Sri Lanka had been awarded a spot in the Rio Olympic badminton competition through the Tripartite Commission, through unofficial […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/Newsflash-thumbnail.png "Tripartite trios for Rio")
![The Sri Lanka Badminton Association announced yesterday that Portuguese International Series winner Niluka Karunaratne had been awarded a spot in the Rio Olympics through the Tripartite Commission. Niluka was one […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160401_1458_FrenchInternational2016_YN__9848-115x115.jpg "Additional Rio qualifying news trickles in")
![China is again hosting the Thomas and Uber Cup finals and four years after the badminton superpower won both cups at home, the Chinese are again looking to defend one […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20140524-1849-Thomas-Uber-Cup-2014-RAPH3016_rotator-115x115.jpg "PREVIEW – Thomas and Uber Cups back in China for good?")
![The Race to Rio is over and now it is time to sift through the numbers and see who has earned the right to chase their Olympic dream this summer. […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Gobi-Rotator-115x115.jpg "RACED TO RIO – Who made it?")
![Misaki Matsutomo / Ayaka Takahashi became the first non-Chinese pair in over a decade to be crowned Asian Champions in women’s doubles but the last match of the day provided […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160403_1509_IndiaOpen2016_Yves4744_rotator-115x115.jpg "ASIAN CHAMPS 2016 Finals – Short match ends a long streak")
![Naoko Fukuman and Kurumi Yonao won what the BWF is calling the longest match in history to keep their Olympic qualification and title hopes alive at the 2016 Badminton Asia […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160331_1719_IndiaOpen2016_Yves0805_rotator-115x115.jpg "ASIAN CHAMPS 2016 SF – Fukuman/Yonao win ultramarathon")
![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}
