Quang Duong, Asia’s No. 1 rated participant per DUPR rankings, is formally not a free agent. This comes after the Vietnamese celebrity signed a professional contract with the APP Tour.
The APP Tour introduced Quang Duong’s signing on its official social media pages, the place he’s described as “Asia’s high participant.” On its web site, the APP Tour calls Duong “probably the most electrical gamers in worldwide pickleball.”
Simply 20 years outdated, the Hanoi native brings immense star energy to the APP Tour, which is presently in a battle with the PPA Tour for professional circuit prominence and superiority.
A Homecoming for Quang Duong
The signing is definitely a homecoming for Quang Duong, who broke into the pickleball scene in 2023, competing within the APP Tour early that 12 months. His most notable efficiency throughout this era was on the 2023 APP Houston Open, the place he had an enormous run in Males’s Singles, defeating high gamers like Christopher Haworth and Jaume Martinez Vich to achieve the finals.
Duong later jumped ship to the PPA Tour, doing so within the latter a part of 2023. He added to his legend by persevering with his meteoric rise to stardom, which he punctuated with a gold medal in Males’s Doubles (with Christian Alshon) on the Bristol Open in August 2024. He climbed as excessive as No. 6 in Males’s Singles within the PPA Tour.
Nonetheless, Quang Duong’s PPA Tour profession ended abruptly after the latter terminated the previous’s contract in early 2025 attributable to contractual violations. He remained unsigned for the remainder of 2025 earlier than coming again to the APP Tour this March.
