Hong Kong's Hong Kit Wong stuns top seed to win Beijing Open
Wong beat top seed Zane Ford in Beijing as Dennehy won two golds and a silver before missing the triple crown by one mixed-doubles match.
Hong Kong’s Hong Kit Wong beat top seed Zane Ford 11-5, 11-8 for the men’s singles title at the Capital Securities Beijing Open, while Sahra Dennehy put together a two-gold day that stopped one match short of a sweep. Dennehy opened by beating Chao Yi Wang 11-7, 11-3 in the women’s singles final, then returned with Yufei Long to edge Aiko Yoshitomi and Wang 11-7, 11-9 for women’s doubles gold before Wang and Len Yang shut down the triple-crown bid in mixed doubles, 11-7, 11-6.
Dennehy’s run left her with two gold medals and one silver, and Wang finished the day with one gold and two silvers after appearing in both the women’s doubles and mixed doubles finals. That kind of crossover is exactly what makes Beijing feel like more than a standalone stop. The same names kept colliding across brackets, with one player’s second match often setting up another’s medal path.
Wong’s victory carried its own weight because it came against the bracket favorite and gave him his second PPA Tour Asia singles gold. Ford arrived as a Beijing debutant and the top seed, and the result underscored how quickly the men’s field can turn when a familiar regional player gets the cleaner read on the court and the bigger moment. Hong Kong’s win also gave the event a clear regional headline beyond the women’s side.
Vietnam’s Hien Truong added another layer to the day by recovering from a first-game loss to beat Harrison Brown 8-11, 11-4, 11-6 for bronze in men’s singles. Truong then teamed with Quan Do to take the men’s doubles title 11-9, 11-7 over Kenta Miyoshi and Robert Stirling, a strong finish after Miyoshi and Stirling had upset the top seeds in the semifinals.
The Beijing results land inside a tour that is building a much larger Asian footprint. PPA Asia was launched on November 25, 2024, the PPA Tour says its rankings are the merit-based system for tournament entry and seeding, and the 2026-2027 schedule includes stops in Tokyo, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Shenzhen, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. The tour also says its live-streaming platform offers more than 3,000 live hours of pro pickleball content, and Beijing now reads like one checkpoint in a calendar that is starting to map the region’s pecking order.
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