Adam Harvey storms back from 9-1 down to reach Singapore final
Adam Harvey erased a 9-1 hole against top seed Hien Truong, then ripped off 10 straight points to book his first PPA Tour Asia final in Singapore.
Adam Harvey turned his PPA Tour Asia debut into a knockout at the Leapmotor Singapore Open, also listed as the PPA Asia 500 Singapore Open, by coming all the way back from a 9-1 deficit in the deciding game against top seed Hien Truong.
Harvey was on the brink of watching a semifinal slip away, but instead he flipped it with a run of 10 straight points to survive Truong and reach the final in Singapore. That kind of swing is brutal on a top seed and invaluable for a player making his first real statement on a new circuit. In a semifinal built on pressure, Harvey did not just hang around. He took the match away.
The result lands harder because Truong entered as the tournament’s No. 1 seed. Beating the top seed in a semifinal, and doing it after trailing by eight in the decider, changes Harvey’s profile immediately. He is no longer just another name in a PPA Tour Asia bracket. He is the player who stared down the worst possible scoreboard and still found a way through it.
The comeback also fits the shape of Harvey’s career. His PPA Tour profile says he started playing pickleball casually in 2019, began in PPA tournaments at the 3.5 level, and now competes in men’s singles, men’s doubles and mixed doubles. That background makes the Singapore breakthrough more than a one-off upset. It is a sharp jump for a player still early in his pro run, and it came in an overseas debut that carried real ranking and title weight.
PPA Tour Asia launched as part of a wider push to bring world-class pro pickleball to Asia, and Singapore is one of the stops on a 2026 slate that also includes Ho Chi Minh City, Beijing, Shenzhen, Macao, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo. In that setting, semifinal results matter beyond the immediate bracket. They start to sort out who belongs at the top of the region’s new competitive ladder.
Harvey’s escape act did exactly that. He did not just reach the final in Singapore; he forced the rest of the draw to take him seriously as a disruptor, not a surprise name.
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