The brackets have landed for the Skechers Shenzhen Open 2026, and there’s a genuinely packed few days forward earlier than the primary serve even lands. Right here’s what’s value maintaining a tally of.
Begin with the workload no one else within the discipline is carrying. 13-year-old Elsie Hendershot has entered three separate occasions—seeded fourth in Ladies’s Doubles alongside Aiko Yoshitomi, eighth in Combined Doubles paired with Zane Navratil, and into the Ladies’s Singles draw on high of each. She’s already made a reputation for herself again dwelling via Main League Pickleball this season, however Asia has been a more durable nut to crack, with earlier stops on the Sansan Fukuoka Open 2025 and the MB Hanoi Cup 2026 but to yield the marquee consequence her type again dwelling would counsel is coming. Three photographs at it this week provides her significantly higher odds than she’s had earlier than.
A Debutant Walks Straight Into the Deep Finish
There’s a brand new title sitting on the very high of the Males’s Singles draw, and it’s not one anybody can afford to miss. Roscoe Bellamy makes his PPA Tour Asia debut this week and goes straight in as the highest seed—no easing in, no lower-tier stepping stone first. Ranked World No. 6 in Males’s Singles and No. 23 total, he’s arguably the highest-ranked participant to debut on the Asian circuit all season, which makes his first match right here somewhat extra high-pressure than most debuts are usually. Unfamiliar courts, a brand-new area, and high billing from the very first ball.
He received’t get a simple path via it, both. That is shaping up as one of many hardest Males’s Singles fields of the yr. Zane Ford sits at No. 2, three-time champion Jack Wong Hong-kit lurks at No. 3 nonetheless chasing one more title, dwelling favorite Hien Truong holds No. 5, and Adam Harvey arrives at #6 recent off gold in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis. That’s a genuinely brutal gauntlet stacked straight behind the newcomer, and realistically, any a kind of 5 may stroll away with the title.
The Ladies’s Discipline Would possibly Be Even Deeper
If something, Ladies’s Singles appears to be like stronger nonetheless. Chao Yi Wang returns to the tour, and returns straight to the highest seed—a comeback value noting by itself. Behind her sits a real murderers’ row: Sahra Dennehy at No. 2, Yufei Lengthy at No. 3, Rika Fujiwara at No. 4. 4 gamers within the high 4 alone who all have a respectable case for gold.
Lengthy carries the added weight of taking part in this one at dwelling. Shenzhen is the place she’s from, and she or he arrives with actual momentum behind her too, coming off a double-crown weekend in Singapore and one other Ladies’s Doubles gold in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis. Anticipate the group noise to replicate precisely that when she takes the courtroom.
Qualifying and the Spherical of 32 get underway Thursday, August 20, at 9:00am (GMT+8).
