Huynh routs Duong in BIDV Cup final, signals Vietnam shift
Huynh erased a 7-1 deficit to beat Quang Duong 11-7, 11-2 in the BIDV Cup final, a sharp sign that Vietnam’s pickleball pecking order is tightening.
Phuc Huynh erased a 7-1 hole against Quang Duong and turned the BIDV Cup 2026 men’s singles final into an 11-7, 11-2 straight-sets statement at the D-Joy Pickleball Nam Sài Gòn complex in Ho Chi Minh City. The five-day event ran from June 17 to June 21 and drew more than 800 athletes from more than 20 countries and territories, with 1,530 registrations and nearly 2,000 matches spread across the D-Joy Pickleball Tour Leg 2.
Duong appeared to have the first set under control before Huynh steadied the match and flipped the rhythm. Once Huynh closed the gap, Duong could not recover the pace he had built early, and the second set became one-way traffic. The result mattered because Duong had beaten Huynh 11-4, 11-4 in the Petrolimex Cup 2025 final, making the BIDV Cup reversal a direct swing in an increasingly familiar rivalry.
Huynh’s latest title also fit a pattern. At the MB Vietnam Open 2025, he won the all-Vietnamese men’s singles final by beating Hoang Nam Ly 11-5, 11-1, and that came after he had taken silver in Fukuoka the previous week. Put together, those results show a player who is no longer just breaking through in one-off bursts but stacking wins in high-pressure brackets against the country’s best-known names.
The BIDV Cup itself underlined how much deeper the scene has become. Harsh Mehta and Duong won the Pro Men’s Doubles title at the same tournament, while Dutch player Roos Van Reek took three titles, giving the event an international cast far beyond a domestic showcase. For Vietnam’s clubs and amateur ladder, that matters because the top domestic matches are now being played inside fields crowded with overseas talent, not in isolation.
That backdrop leads directly into Vietnam’s next appointment with the sport’s global calendar. Da Nang is set to host the 2026 Pickleball World Cup from August 30 to September 6, with about 4,000 athletes from more than 80 countries and territories expected, and multiple reports say it will be the first time the tournament is staged in Asia. Huynh’s finish in Ho Chi Minh City is another marker that Vietnam’s top tier is arriving at that event with real internal competition already sharpening it.
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