- 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
![Recently retired Ayaka Takahashi revealed this week that she is now married to Japanese doubles player Yuki Kaneko. Photos: Badmintonphoto 2020 may have been a year of disappointments and tragedy […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/matsutomos-partners-115x115.jpg "Matsutomo’s partners partner up")
![Retired Korean singles star Bae Yeon Ju has released a series of game lesson videos where she directly corrects incorrect form, strokes, and habits of recreational players by playing directly […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/BAE-Yeon-Ju-lesson_rotator-115x115.jpg "Bae Yeon Ju releases lesson video series subtitled in English and Indonesian")
![The Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced yesterday that it would be freezing the world rankings at their March 17th state, with no updates until after international tournaments can resume when […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/Frozen-BWF-Rankings_rotator-115x115.jpg "BWF freezes world rankings at March 17th")
![More sad news came today from both north and south as the Canadian Olympic Committee announced it would not send a team to Tokyo this summer, while the last international […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190723_1744_JapanOpen2019_BPYL8065-115x115.jpg "No badminton in Auckland in April, no Canadians in Tokyo in July")
![On Friday, the BWF announced the postponement of the Thomas & Uber Cup Finals as well as the suspension of all remaining events in the Tokyo qualifying period. Photos: Badmintonphoto […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20180923_1819_ChinaOpen2018_BPYL3919_rotator-115x115.jpg "Continental Championships, Uber and Thomas Cups axed from schedule")
![The outbreak of Covid-19 has forced the BWF to take the extraordinary measure of suspending all international badminton events for 4 weeks. Late on Friday, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190409_0923_SingaporeOpen2019_BPMR1950-115x115.jpg "BWF: “All tournaments suspended until April 12th”")
![The Swiss Open Super 300 will proceed as scheduled, by with spectators limited to a crowd of 200. Photo: Sven Heise / Badmintonphoto The Swiss Open organizers announced via the […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190317_1813_SwissOpen2019_BPSH2279-115x115.jpg "Swiss Open to proceed with streamlined crowd")
![The Indian government’s decision to suspend visas for nationals of Korea and Japan could cull nearly half of the seeded players from the field for the upcoming India Open. Photos: […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190326_0919_IndiaOpen2019_BPMP7320-115x115.jpg "Door to India Open closed for 3 top teams")
![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}
