Beijing Open to showcase deep field at National Tennis Centre
Zane Ford’s Beijing debut and Chao Yi Wang’s rematch with Sahra Dennehy give China’s first PPA Tour Asia stop real measuring-stick stakes.
Beijing is getting more than a first-time pickleball stop. The Capital Securities Beijing Open is bringing a PPA Asia 500 field to the National Tennis Centre from June 17-21, with all five events on the schedule and professionals from more than 30 countries and regions expected to take part.
That scale is what makes the week matter. PPA Tour Asia has described the tournament as its first-ever stop in China’s capital, and the setting carries unusual weight: the China National Tennis Center opened in 2007, has hosted the China Open since 2009, and staged tennis at the Beijing 2008 Olympics and Paralympics. In other words, this is not a pop-up venue trying to borrow legitimacy. It is a major sports site being used to tell the market that pickleball has earned a place in the same conversation.
Tickets went on sale May 26, according to the Beijing municipal government, which also said grandstand seats at the Capital Diamond Court and the outer courts would be free on June 17 and 18. That kind of access fits the larger ambition. Beijing is not being treated as an exhibition market, but as a place where the sport can show whether it belongs on a premium stage.
The women’s draw gives the event an immediate storyline. Chao Yi Wang is trying to answer Sahra Dennehy after Dennehy beat her in the 2025 PPA Tour Asia Hangzhou Open final. Wang also enters Beijing as one of the circuit’s leading players, with the rankings page putting her prominently in the medal-race picture. If she gets another shot at Dennehy, the rematch would carry real regional stakes, not just a single match result.
On the men’s side, Zane Ford makes his PPA Tour Asia debut as a top seed and as a world No. 10 player, a profile that makes him one of the week’s biggest tests for the Asian field. PPA Tour Asia’s rankings page listed Ford at No. 10 in men’s singles on June 18, underscoring why his first appearance in China is being watched so closely.
The larger tour frame matters too. PPA Tour Asia calls itself the premier professional and amateur pickleball tour in the region, and its 2026 calendar also runs through Tokyo, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Shenzhen, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. Beijing sits in the middle of that expansion, but the National Tennis Centre gives the stop something rarer than a packed draw: proof that China can host pickleball as a serious proving ground.
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