- 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
![Qu Zimo became the first Chinese shuttler to be named Para-Badminton Player of the Year, while Huang Yaqiong took Female Player of the Year honours for the second year running, […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20191209_2016_WorldTourFinals2019_LV1_8953_rotator-115x115.jpg "Chinese athletes win big at year-end badminton gala")
![Hollywood filmmaker Zack Snyder, director of such blockbusters as 300 and Justice League, has been appointed an Ambassador to the USA Badminton Association. The U.S. governing body said in a […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/ZS-headshot-approved_featured-115x115.jpg "Filmmaker Zack Snyder named as USA Badminton Ambassador")
![In 2018, 4 of the six categories of BWF player awards all went to doubles players. Will singles take back at least some of the spotlight in 2019? By Don […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Female-Player-of-the-Year-Composite_rotator-115x115.jpg "Singles to return to spotlight for BWF awards?")
![An Se Young finally got the better of veteran team-mate Sung Ji Hyun to win the Korea Masters, followed by Japan’s Matsuyama/Shida taking down their Rio gold medallist team-mates. Story […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Gwangju-Masters-2019-3721-115x115.jpg "KOREA MASTERS 2019 Finals – Veteran ladies suffer upsets")
![It will be an all-Korean women’s singles final at the Korea Masters, as An Se Young looks for her 5th title this year, while Sung Ji Hyun is hoping to […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Gwangju-Masters-2019-2535_rotator-115x115.jpg "KOREA MASTERS 2019 SF – An goes for a 5th, Sung for a second 4th")
![Lin Dan is poised to take his second title of 2019 but word from the BWF is that he is not eligible from the points from the Gwangju Korea Masters […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20191106_1347_FuzhouChinaOpen2019_BPYL8608-115x115.jpg "Gwangju final but no Guangzhou Finals for Lin Dan?")
![2017 Korea Masters champion Kim Won Ho is in his first semi-final with new partner Park Kyung Hoon after they saw off Olympic and World Champion Zhang Nan in his […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Gwangju-Masters-2019-2189_rotator-115x115.jpg "KOREA MASTERS 2019 QF – Korea finishes strong")
![All but 4 tickets to the 2019 World Tour Finals have already been booked but seven singles players and one doubles pair are still giving chase and Busanan Ongbamrungphan is […]](http://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20191113_1234_HongKongOpen2019_BPYL8539_rotator-115x115.jpg "7 still chasing 4 Guangzhou spots")
![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}
