Semifinal Saturday on the MB Hanoi Cup 2026 delivered all the pieces it promised — after which some.
Hien Truong Will get His Revenge
The most important results of the day got here early. Hien Truong knocked out Males’s Singles high seed Federico Staksrud 11–7, 4–11, 11–5, avenging a bronze playoff loss to the Argentine on the Vibrant Linping Hangzhou Open 2025—similar format, similar two gamers, completely different consequence.
Truong took the primary, weathered a second-game blitz, then pulled away within the third. Staksrud’s seek for a primary singles gold in Asia goes on.
Truong will now face compatriot Hoang Nam Ly in an all-Vietnamese Males’s Singles last on house soil — precisely what the Hanoi crowd got here to see. Ly cruised previous Dylan Frazier 11–5, 11–6 and arrives within the last because the reigning Vibrant Linping Hangzhou Open champion, trying to go back-to-back. Truong made the MB Vietnam Cup 2025 last however continues to be chasing his first title. One in every of them ends that wait on Sunday.
High Seeds Preserve Falling
Staksrud wasn’t the one high seed who didn’t make it by. Girls’s Singles No. 1 Kate Fahey was subsequent, falling to Brooke Buckner 9–11, 11–6, 11–6 in what was Buckner’s Asia debut. Buckner faces Kaitlyn Christian in Sunday’s last. Christian gained the Girls’s Singles title on the Panas Malaysia Cup 2025 and will likely be searching a second Asian gold.
Kaitlyn Christian and Christian Alshon Settle a Rating
The upsets carried into Blended Doubles. Kaitlyn Christian and Christian Alshon knocked out No. 2 seeds Anna Vivid and Hayden Patriquin 11–9, 11–8 — and the outcome comes with historical past connected. Christian and Alshon made the Blended Doubles last on the Panas Malaysia Cup 2025 collectively, the place they misplaced to Vivid and Ben Johns. They’ve now knocked Vivid out on the best way to a different shot on the title.
Standing of their means: world No. 1 duo Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns, who haven’t misplaced a Blended Doubles last collectively all season.
Anna Vivid’s Different Shot
Vivid’s Blended Doubles run is over, however she isn’t finished. Her Girls’s Doubles partnership with Waters rolled previous Tina Pisnik and Jessie Irvine 11–3, 11–2 and can face Tyra Hurricane Black and Catherine Parenteau within the last. The final time Vivid performed Girls’s Doubles in Asia, she exited on the quarterfinals. She has gone additional this time. One match to go.
The Last They Wished
Males’s Doubles is about up precisely as marketed. No. 1 seeds Gabriel Tardio and Ben Johns towards No. 2 seeds Hayden Patriquin and Federico Staksrud — the matchup everybody circled. Tardio and Johns barely broke a sweat within the semis, dropping simply six factors throughout two video games towards Dylan Frazier and Eric Oncins.
4 of the most effective. One court docket. Championship Sunday.
Gold medal matches start no sooner than 1:00 p.m. (GMT+7).
