![Playing a match in front of what should have been a passionate home crowd, and carrying the burden of expectations on his shoulders, Japanese star Kento Momota let the occasion […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/b_20210728_2147_OlympicGames2020_BPST08696_rotator-115x115.jpg "Is Momota destined to miss out on Olympic gold?")
![The incumbent BWF President Poul-Erik Høyer capped a superlative individual campaign in 1996 by winning the men’s singles gold medal in Atlanta. It’s been 25 years since and the Helsinge-born […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20160819_1424_OlympicGames2016_BPYL5029_rotator-115x115.jpg "Dane & now: Poul-Erik Høyer’s Olympic triumph and thereafter")
![Viktor Axelsen had four straight titles, a 29-match unbeaten streak and loads of momentum going into the year-end final in Bangkok. Anders Antonsen had won the biggest title of his […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20210131_1840_WorldTourFinals2020_BPRS0703_rotator-115x115.jpg "BWF World Tour Finals: Anatomy of a Danish Duel")
![With a clutch of top level titles, a dozen gold medals in Europe, 650-plus matches and an indomitable fighting spirit, the Denmark’s Jan Ø. Jørgensen leaves behind a lasting legacy. […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20201016_2034_DenmarkOpen2020_BPYN8862_rotator-115x115.jpg "Jan Ø. Jørgensen: Making significant additions to Danish badminton history")
![Despite limited success of homegrown players in the last decade, the Denmark Open continues to be a symbol of Danish dominance, the only major tournament where the tiny European nation […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20161023_1605_DenmarkOpen2016_BPAV9862_rotator-115x115.jpg "The lone Danish bastion")
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![Denmark’s Anders Antonsen, while being one of the most talented and exciting players of this generation, also happens to be one of the most unpredictable. It is this battle against […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20200119_1818_IndonesiaMasters2020_BPJS7421_rotator-115x115.jpg "Antonsen, and the element of uncertainty")
![If the year 2018 was about Kento Momota’s comeback then 2019 was the period where he asserted his dominance on the circuit, in an emphatic manner at that. The Tokyo […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20191110_1743_FuzhouChinaOpen2019_BPYL8019_rotator-115x115.jpg "An inspiring ‘sophomore’…and a shot at redemption")
![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 […]](https://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}
AUSTRALIAN OPEN Finals – Historic repeat the feat![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 […]](https://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}
AUSTRALIAN OPEN SF – Fancy seeing you on Sunday![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 […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/2022-QF-WD1-36x36.jpg "AUSTRALIAN OPEN QF – Finding that little bit extra"){kind=small}
AUSTRALIAN OPEN QF – Finding that little bit extra![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 […]](https://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}
AUSTRALIAN OPEN R16 – What actually happened in the last match of the night?![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 […]](https://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}
AUSTRALIAN OPEN R32 – Wish it were longer AUSTRALIAN OPEN Finals – Historic repeat the feat AUSTRALIAN OPEN SF – Fancy seeing you on Sunday AUSTRALIAN OPEN QF – Finding that little bit extra AUSTRALIAN OPEN R16 – What actually happened in the last match of the night?
