Korea and Japan met in Hanam for a series of team badminton friendlies this week, with Japan’s favourites winning all but one tie. Story and photos by Don Hearn Bi-national […]
Korea is top seed for the BWF World Junior Mixed Team Championship but is forced to send a young team to Yogyakarta next month as the top Korean teen stars […]
Women’s Team Final: Jiangsu 3, Hubei 1 WS1: He Bingjiao beat Li Wenmei 21-10, 21-10 WD1: Cheng Shu / Sun Xiaoli lost to Zhao Yunlei / Li Yinhui 15-21, 21-14, […]
The Sudirman Cup’s outcome is a different historical indicator of shifts in badminton power to that of the the Olympic Games and World Championships, and Thomas-Uber Cups. Our preview specialist, […]
China may have seen to correcting their nominations to include world #2 Lu Kai for the Sudirman Cup but Team Korea is minus 3 current and former top 5 players […]
Tontowi Ahmad will be without his fellow Olympic mixed doubles gold medallist as Liliyana Natsir will not be on hand to partner him at the upcoming Sudirman Cup competition in […]
All England champion and Superseries leader Lu Kai has not yet been named to China’s 2017 Sudirman Cup squad, a day before the team nomination deadline. In what is certainly […]
Team Japan blanked Korea 3-0 in the final in Ho Chi Minh City to become the winner of the first ever Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championship. By Don Hearn. Photos: […]