Connor Garnett, a part of the Western wave that added spice to the PPA Tour Asia’s newest leg, left Japan holding on to loads of {hardware} and heroics in his two fingers—three gold medals, and an almost spotless report on the Sansan Fukuoka Open 2025.
The American’s solely blemish got here within the Males’s Singles ultimate, the place Vietnam’s Phuc Huynh offered the week’s greatest drama for the highest seed.
After watching Garnett dash to a 6-0 lead out of the gate, Huynh dug deep and surprised the group by snatching the primary recreation 11-8. For a second, the script regarded able to flip.
However Garnett had different plans. The world no. 3 responded with brutal effectivity, discovering winners from each nook of the courtroom, and dropping simply 4 factors throughout the subsequent two video games (11-3, 11-1) to lock up his first title of the day.
The Blended Doubles introduced an MLP reunion, as Black Diamonds teammates Garnett and Allyce Jones dispatched Len Yang and Wei Ting Chieh 2-0 (11-7, 11-5). Garnett capped his good day in Males’s Doubles, partnering Tyler Loong to defeat native favorite Kenta Miyoshi and Robert Stirling in straight video games 2-0 (11-3, 12-10), and silencing the house crowd’s hopes.
In the meantime, Chinese language rising star Yufei Lengthy added to her rising trophy assortment with a commanding Girls’s Singles victory over Hsieh Yu-chieh 2-0 (11-1, 11-7). The win provides Lengthy back-to-back singles titles after her Panas Malaysia Open triumph, whereas Hsieh collected her second consecutive silver following final week’s Hong Kong Open ultimate.
Lengthy wasn’t achieved. Reuniting with fellow UPA Asia Trailblazer Ting Chieh Wei, the duo battled previous Australians Danni-Elle Townsend and Nicola Schoeman 2-1 (6-11, 11-4, 11-6) for Girls’s Doubles gold.
Subsequent up: PPA Tour Asia heads to Ho Chi Minh Metropolis for the MB Vietnam Open from 4 to 7 September 2025.
