Global pickleball weekend crowns winners across Asia and Europe

Sahra Dennehy turned the Capital Securities Beijing Open into her weekend, winning women’s singles and women’s doubles as the Asian pro calendar pushed through another crowded stretch of play. At the National Tennis Centre in Beijing, the June 17-21 stop produced titles for Hong Kit Wong and a mixed-doubles finish that denied Dennehy a clean sweep, giving the tournament a full scoreboard of winners across five disciplines.

Dennehy opened with an 11-7, 11-3 victory over Chao Yi Wang in the women’s singles final, then returned with Yufei Long to take women’s doubles gold. Wong handled the men’s side, beating Zane Ford 11-5, 11-8 for the singles title. In mixed doubles, Wang and Len Yang stopped Dennehy and Joseph Wild, turning what had been a potential three-title run for Dennehy into two golds and one runner-up finish.

That mixed final had been set up by a strong championship Sunday for both Dennehy and Wang, who each reached all three of their finals. PPA Tour Asia had flagged the pair as a double triple-crown threat before the title matches, and Beijing delivered the kind of high-end depth the circuit has been trying to build in China. The event was billed as the tour’s historic first stop in the Chinese capital, and its five-discipline finals gave the weekend a tightly packed, event-by-event rhythm that fit the sport’s current international schedule.

The medal picture in Beijing also reflected how quickly the top of the Asian tour is hardening. PPA Tour Asia’s standings page listed Yufei Long, Chao Yi Wang, Alix Truong, Sahra Dennehy, Ting Chieh Wei, Kaitlyn Christian, Hien Truong and Len Yang near the front of the race, a mix of names that shows how much of the tour’s competitive weight is now spread across multiple markets and pairings.

Vietnam remains part of that same run of dates. PPA Tour Asia’s calendar already lists a Ho Chi Minh City Open 2026 for August 6-9 at US$70,000 in prize money and 500 PPA ranking points, another clear marker that the region’s events are carrying real stakes on the season schedule. Ho Chi Minh City has already produced cross-border results, too: Meghan Dizon and Alix Truong won women’s doubles there in an earlier tour stop, and the city now sits as one more fixed date on a busy Asian circuit.