Alix Truong will go away China with two gold medals as one of many stars of the Hangzhou Open 2025. In the meantime, world no. 2 Federico Staksrud settled for one gold and one silver after crashing out of Males’s Singles motion.
Gold for Alix Truong in Ladies’s Doubles
Vietnam’s Alix Truong was golden twice over in Hangzhou, successful gold within the Ladies’s Doubles and Blended Doubles with Zoey Wang and Federico Staksrud, respectively.
Truong/Wang capped off a rousing marketing campaign in Ladies’s Doubles with a hard-fought 2-0 (11-8, 11-6) victory over the American pair of Sarah Burr and Jamie Haas. Truong and Wang misplaced only one set—within the semis towards the twosome of Yufei Lengthy and Sahra Dennehy—on their option to a golden end. Dennehy and Lengthy rounded out the rostrum, netting bronze after beating Aiko Yoshitomi and Kara Wheatley.
Gold for Alix Truong in Blended Doubles
Truong made it two gold medals in China with one other smashing victory within the gold-medal match in Blended Doubles with associate Federico Staksrud, who’s at the moment ranked no. 2 on the planet in Males’s Singles. Staksrud, who crashed out in Males’s Singles and fell within the semis of Males’s Doubles, salvaged an in any other case underwhelming stint in Hangzhou by serving to Truong defeat the pair of Kim Eunggwon and Nok Yiu Tang, 2-0 (11-9, 11-1).
Truong/Staksrud beat the high-powered pair of Connor Garnett, ranked no. 3 within the PPA Tour, and Ting Chie Wei to e-book their seats within the gold-medal match. Zoey Wang and Armaan Bhatia then took bronze with a 2-0 (11-3, 11-9) victory over Garnett/Wei.
Hien Truong/Quan Do High Males’s Doubles
Hien Truong, one-half of the Truong siblings, rounded out the winners’ circle with Quan Do as the 2 teamed as much as win gold within the Males’s Doubles, beating the extremely touted twosome of Staksrud and Armaan Bhatia, 2-1 (10-12, 11-6, 11-5). The pair of Thomas Yu and Len Yang earned a podium end as nicely after topping Shama Shimabukuro and Prycen Haas, 2-0 (11-1, 11-3).
