- 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
![Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong reigned supreme over mixed doubles for more than two years but can they come back and add Tokyo Olympic gold to their title trove? By […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20200119_1335_IndonesiaMasters2020_BPJS5284_rotator-115x115.jpg "OLYMPIC XD Preview – Return of the monarchs?")
![How are Japan’s chances in the home team’s strongest discipline going into the Tokyo Olympics? Can Hirota and Fukushima rise to the biggest occasion of their career? By Don Hearn. […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20180708_1624_IndonesiaOpen2018_BPYL4954_rotator-115x115.jpg "OLYMPIC WD Preview – Can Japan get their fairy-tale final?")
![Indonesia sends two solid top seeds into the men’s doubles competition in Tokyo, but they will be challenged by more than a dozen dangerous pairs all with their own chances […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20200315_1719_AllEngland2020_BPES8033_rotator-115x115.jpg "OLYMPIC MD Preview – Indonesians vie for a 4th gold")
![A week after Jung Kyung Eun posted a petition to the Cheong Wa Dae website, the doubles player appeared in a press conference with Korean National Assembly member Jeon Yonggi. […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20191116_1451_HongKongOpen2019_BPRS2494_rotator-115x115.jpg "Jung Kyung Eun’s case taken up by National Assembly member")
![Former women’s doubles world #2 Jung Kyung Eun has posted a petition challenging what she calls a suspicious and unfair selection process for the national doubles badminton squad. Jung Kyung […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20191017_1022_DenmarkOpen2019_BPMP1924_rotator-115x115.jpg "Rio bronze medallist petitions Blue House over Korean national team selection")
![Lee Yang and Wang Chi Lin stretched their streak to 3, winning the men’s doubles title at the World Tour Finals, while Chinese Taipei picked up two as Tai Tzu […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20210131_1721_WorldTourFinals2020_BPRS0094_rotator-115x115.jpg "WORLD TOUR FINALS – Thais won, Tai won too, Taiwan two")
![Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan score their first win over Choi/Seo but the title at the World Tour Finals they are now eyeing is something they have ample experience with. […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20210130_1307_WorldTourFinals2020_BPRS7870_rotator-115x115.jpg "WORLD TOUR FINALS SF – Ahsan/Setiawan keep title defense hopes alive")
![For the second straight day at the World Tour Finals, Korean shuttlers went a perfect 5 for 5, with Choi Sol Gyu and Seo Seung Jae becoming the first of […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20210129_1152_WorldTourFinals2020_BPES1494_rotator-115x115.jpg "WTF Day 3 – Koreans top half the groups")
![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}
![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}
![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}
![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}
![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}
