Vietnam’s very personal Quang Duong not too long ago auctioned his first-ever gold medal from the PPA Tour as a part of a donation drive to assist flood-stricken Central Vietnam.
The large flooding within the Central Vietnam area has induced unprecedented harm and even lack of life, with 47 deaths already reported by the Vietnam Catastrophe and Dyke Administration Authority. Worse, Storm Kalmaegi is bearing down on Vietnam, and it might complicate an already dire state of affairs in that a part of the nation. In different phrases, Central Vietnam wants all the assistance it will possibly get, and Duong is most actually doing his half.
The Avatar Ball Bender first put up the medal for public sale on 29 October 2025, posting about it on Fb whereas enjoining his followers and the general public to “open your arms to assist your fellow residents within the Central Area.”
The medal is the Males’s Doubles gold that Quang Duong—with companion and up to date Southeast Asia conqueror Christian Alshon—received on the Bristol Open in October 2024. That golden conquest can be notable as a result of Duong and Alshon beat the spectacular pair of Ben Johns and Collin Johns in a spectacular show of shot-making.
A couple of days later, e-commerce and logistics service agency Pressify Inc. opened its arms—and its chequebook—after submitting the profitable bid of VND 250 million (equal to about USD $9,500).
In whole, the donation drive, based on Quang Duong himself in a separate Fb put up, raised 838,290,000 VND (round USD $32,000) for the flood victims in Central Vietnam. In keeping with him, the proceeds had been immediately handed over to the Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam in Hue Metropolis, Quang Ngai Province, and Da Nang.
Duong, by the way, additionally took half within the “Glow Pickleball Charity Night time” of the VTV AO Smith Pickleball Open 2025, a charity occasion for the “Coronary heart for Youngsters” Fund of Vietnam Tv. There, the younger man auctioned considered one of his PPA Tour-used paddles, and it fetched a whopping 56 million VND from the winner, Miss Universe Vietnam 2024 second runner-up Vu Thuy Quynh.
(Watch Quang Duong and Christian Alshon ship the products towards the Johns brothers under.)
