Beijing Open spotlights Vietnam's rising pickleball momentum in China
Truong Vinh Hien and Ly Hoang Nam turned Beijing into a Vietnam watch, with a Hanoi final, a title and 500 ranking points at stake.
The Beijing Open has put Vietnam at the center of PPA Tour Asia’s first trip to China’s capital. Truong Vinh Hien entered the men’s singles draw as the No. 2 seed, while Ly Hoang Nam arrived in Beijing after his Hanoi Cup title and a run that has pushed Vietnamese pickleball into the sport’s top regional conversation.
The Capital Securities Beijing Open was scheduled for June 17-21 at the National Tennis Center, with US$70,000 in pro prize money and 500 ranking points for the champions. That combination made the event more than a calendar stop: it became a measuring stick for a rapidly rising Asian circuit, and Beijing’s debut as a PPA Tour Asia host gave the week a sharper edge. The Beijing city government said tickets went on sale on May 26 at 10:00, with free admission to grandstand seats at the Capital Diamond Court and the outer courts on June 17 and 18.
The setting matched the scale of the draw. The National Tennis Center was built for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and later became the home venue for the China Open, so pickleball landed on one of the city’s best-known international sports sites. The city notice said the tournament was expected to feature professional players from more than 30 countries and regions, with Chao Yi Wang billed as the headline women’s player and Zane Ford, Hoang Nam Ly, Hien Truong and Hong Kit Wong among the confirmed men.
On the court, the men’s bracket underlined how much of the spotlight Vietnam had already claimed. PPA Tour Asia’s bracket preview named Ford as the top seed and said Truong was one of the form men of the season after winning in Kuala Lumpur in May. But Nam’s recent form gave the Vietnamese challenge extra weight. On April 5 at the Hanoi Cup, he beat Truong 11-5, 11-6 in the men’s singles final, an all-Vietnamese title match at a PPA Asia 1000-level event that marked another step in the country’s surge.
That surge has also shown up in the rankings. A Vietnam News Agency report said Nam became the first Vietnamese player to top the Asian DUPR rankings, and that Vietnam now had five players in the Asian top 10. In Beijing, that meant the story was no longer simply about participation from Southeast Asia. It was about a country that has built enough depth to shape the title picture at a marquee stop in China.
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