There’s a cause Vietnam’s Quang Duong made it to the very prime tier of professional pickleball: He actually is an outstanding participant. And he proved that unequivocally in a neighborhood match held over the weekend in Quang Ninh.
Already a number of months faraway from enjoying on the highest ranges of the game, Quang Duong hardly missed a beat, profitable two gold medals—one in Males’s Doubles, one other in Combined Doubles—handily with totally different companions. First, Duong teamed up with Amanda Hendry to win gold in Combined Doubles. Then, he and accomplice Casey Diamond blitzed the Males’s Doubles area to win the title.
Notably, Quang Duong’s groups beat pairs boasting Vietnam’s prime gamers, together with the duo of Trinh Linh Giang and Ly Hoang Nam within the semi-finals and the pair of Phuc Huynh and Tama Shimabukuro. By the way, Giang and Nam received silver and bronze medals, respectively, at Males’s Singles on the Hong Kong Open 2025, whereas Huynh received gold on the Vietnam Open not too long ago. The Vietnamese stalwarts, nonetheless, proved no match towards Duong and Casey.
In fact, it’s not like Duong’s companions in Males’s Doubles and Combined Doubles had been slouches. Hendry and Diamond are fairly good pickleball execs themselves, they usually might in all probability win some severe {hardware} within the PPA Tour Asia in the event that they competed in it. Then once more, watching Duong, it’s clear that he actually is a lower above Vietnam’s finest on the regional stage. The facility, the method, the velocity and quickness, and the contact had been all noticeably superior in comparison with the Giangs and the Huynhs and the Nams.
Certainly, Quang Duong regarded like a person amongst boys in that native match in Quang Ninh. And it makes you marvel why he’s even competing there as a substitute of midway around the globe within the US, the place the perfect of pickleball are enjoying on the highest ranges.
He and his staff are the one ones who know why.
