APP Tour adds three major D-Joy pickleball events in Vietnam
APP Tour is locking in three D-Joy events in Vietnam, including a November Masters with a 100,000 prize pool. The schedule turns Vietnam into a year-round hub, not a one-off stop.
Vietnam is no longer being treated as a one-off stop on the APP Tour. The circuit has committed three major D-Joy events in the country this year, a June Tier 2 stop, a September Tier 2 stop and a November Masters, a schedule that points to Vietnam’s rise from an emerging market to a regional power center in Asian pickleball.
The 2026 calendar gives D-Joy a clear runway. PICKLEBALL D-JOY TOUR 2026 - LEG 2 is set for 17 June to 20 June with a 50,000 prize pool, LEG 3 follows from 9 September to 12 September with another 50,000 purse, and PICKLEBALL D-JOY TOUR 2026 - MASTERS runs from 23 November to 28 November as a Tier 1 event with a 100,000 prize pool. All three sit inside the Global Pickleball Alliance circuit, alongside sanctioned events in the United States, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, India, England, Canada, Dubai, Europe and Australia.
That placement matters. A single showcase event can create a splash; three stops in one country create a pipeline. For Southeast Asian players, the Vietnam dates mean more ranking chances without the cost and travel burden of chasing points across a wider international schedule. For organizers, the bar rises just as fast: venues, sponsorship, broadcast production and athlete services all have to scale with the calendar, not just one headline weekend.
D-Joy already showed it can draw that kind of demand. The 2026 season opened on 19 March at the Pickleball D-Joy South Saigon complex in Ho Chi Minh City, and the opening leg pulled in 1,296 registrations, including 149 international athletes, within three weeks of being announced. That is the kind of response that tells a tour it has crossed from novelty into infrastructure.
The business case is hard to miss. D-Joy’s 2026 season is backed by Petrolimex, TTC Group, Facolos, Vietnam Airlines, Coca-Cola, Coolmate, Nam Saigon International General Hospital, HTV and HTV-TMS. The tour is also being sold as part of a long-term push to build a professional, sustainable sports ecosystem in Vietnam, with an eye toward future SEA Games, ASIAD and Olympic ambitions.
That ambition has numbers behind it. D-Joy said its 2025 season produced nearly 3,500 matches across four stages, giving this year’s calendar a real precedent for volume and endurance. With three events now on the books, Vietnam is making a stronger case that it can become one of Asia’s key gateways for pickleball, not just a host for occasional imports.
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