‘Hot talk’ by Frost

can take Morten Frost out of badminton, but not the sport out of him.

The 59-year-old Dane, who turns 60 on April 4 and is popularly known as “Mr. Badminton”, quit the BA of Malaysia (BAM) last year, but he has made a comeback to the sport, though this time round as a match commentator.

The ex-BAM technical director, when contacted in Birmingham, said he doesn’t believe in retirement, not anytime soon at least.

“I do not believe in retirement, perhaps a gradual one. I believe it’s important to stay active.

“I had a good break, and am now fully recharged,” said Frost, who got things rolling at the recent All England, alongside seasoned commentator and former England player, 56-year-old Gillian Clark.

Frost, who won the All England men’s singles title four times during his playing days in 1982, 1984, 1986 and 1987, said he is currently contracted to Infront, the company in charge of worldwide badminton broadcast.

“It has always been hanging in the air, that I could make a return to commentating, because it suits me very well.

“My first assignment is here in Birmingham for the All England, before I travel to New Zealand or Australia, and then the Thomas and Uber Cup in Bangkok, Thailand come the end of May.”

Frost, who holds the record of being the longest serving shuttler with the Danish national team, representing his country from 1976 to 1991, previously had a short commentating stint, before returning to Kuala Lumpur to take up the technical director’s role in 2015. It was his second stint in Malaysia, since the late 1990s.

After a string of poor performances and an internal fallout, Frost quit BAM last September, citing personal reasons.

Some of his impressive contributions to Malaysia include the country’s biggest Olympic medal haul, in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, where badminton delivered three silver medals through Lee Chong Wei (men’s singles), Goh V ShemTan Wee Kiong (men’s doubles) and Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying (mixed doubles).