For the longest time, Quang Duong has been thought-about Vietnam’s prime male pickleball participant. In a span of three weeks, Phuc Huynh may power pundits to rethink the pickleball totem pole.
On Sunday, Huynh beat Duong, 11-7, 11-2, within the Males’s Singles Last of the BIDV Cup 2026, the second leg of Vietnam’s vastly profitable D-JOY Pickleball Tour. Duong, the one-time PPA Tour standout, really began robust, racing out to a 7-1 benefit within the opening recreation earlier than Huynh launched a sterling comeback. A profitable VAR test and two call-outs later accomplished Huynh’s large rally.
Recreation 2 belonged to Phuc Huynh from begin to end. He began out with six unanswered factors that prompted QD to ask for a ceasefire. Duong managed to get two factors again, however he couldn’t cease his Vietnamese rival from taking the sport and the match—and the championship, after all.
With the win, Phuc Huynh not solely gained one other gold medal, he additionally proved past any doubt that his sweep of Quang Duong within the semifinals of the 2026 Michelob Extremely Asia Pickleball Event was no fluke. Huynh’s dominance of QD has been noteworthy, because the Golden Boy of Vietnamese pickleball couldn’t even win a recreation.
Curiously, Huynh’s newest golden conquest is his second in three weeks as effectively, as he beforehand beat Hoang Nam Ly within the gold medal match of the 2026 Michelob Extremely Asia Pickleball Event. Meaning his final three wins have come towards two gamers usually thought to be amongst Vietnam’s perfect.
Huynh, after all, is not any slouch. Primarily based on DUPR rankings, he’s No. 2 in Males’s Singles right here in Asia, trailing Ly by the slimmest of margins, 6.267 to six.234. And the best way he has been taking part in, Phuc Huynh may need confirmed that he’s, not less than for now, Vietnam’s prime participant.
