- 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
![Nigerian newspaper Punch reported yesterday that the Nigerian badminton team had received visas to enter Egypt on Tuesday, in time for the individual event of the All Africa Badminton Championships, […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20150511_1553_SudirmanCup2015_RS_L2297-Dorcas-Ajoke-Adesokan-115x115.jpg "Nigerians get visas for All Africa Championships")
![The Chinese national badminton team has pulled out of all international badminton events in February after a travel ban foiled their plans to compete in the Badminton Asia Team Championships […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190326_1649_IndiaOpen2019_BPMP7905-115x115.jpg "Banned from Philippines, China gives up on February")
![Men’s singles world #1 Kento Momota will need 3 more months to recovery from additional surgery he received today, according to a report from NHK World. Momota was hospitalized for […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20191024_2215_FrenchOpen2019_BPYL7334-115x115.jpg "Momota needs 3 more months after orbital fracture surgery")
![India’s women’s team has decided to give next week’s Badminton Asia Team Championships a miss, according to a report in India Today. Amid fears surrounding the outbreak of the novel […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20140524-1902-Thomas-Uber-Cup-2014-RAPH3137-115x115.jpg "Badminton Asia team field dwindles as Indian ladies back out")
![With the government of the Philippines having banned foreigners from entering the country from China and Hong Kong, the participation of four key teams remains in doubt for next week’s […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20190324_1719_AsianMixedTeamChampionships2019_BPMC0464-115x115.jpg "Philippine travel ban to impact Asian team event?")
![The Badminton Korea Association (BKA) went ahead and cut doubles star Seo Seung Jae from the national team until the end of 2020, which could effectively end the Olympic dream […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20191115_2208_HongKongOpen2019_BPYL2476_rotator-115x115.jpg "Seo Seung Jae cut from national team")
![A report today in Korea’s Sports Chosun paper revealed that the Badminton Korea Association (BKA) will be ruling on whether to discipline doubles star Seo Seung Jae over issues relating […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20191210_1201_WorldTourFinals2019_BPLV9161-115x115.jpg "BKA decision on Seo Seung Jae expected this week")
![With just 3 months to go in the qualifying period for badminton at the 2020 Olympics, the list of possible invitees is starting to come into focus, but with lots […]](https://www.badzine.net/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/20191212_1845_WorldTourFinals2019_BPLV7971_rotator-115x115.jpg "Tokyo’s field of 166 takes shape")
![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}
