Huynh rallies past Duong to win BIDV Cup and boost Vietnam's rise
Huynh erased a 7-1 deficit to beat Quang Duong 11-7, 11-2, a result that tightened Vietnam’s grip on Asian pickleball.
Phuc Huynh turned a 7-1 hole into an 11-7, 11-2 win over Quang Duong in the men’s singles final at the BIDV Cup 2026, the second leg of the D-Joy Pickleball Tour. The comeback mattered as much as the title: Duong had controlled the opening stretch, but Huynh closed the first game, then rolled through the second to finish one of the most consequential Vietnamese matchups of the month.
The result adds another layer to Huynh’s rise, because this was not an isolated spike. On June 7 in Ho Chi Minh City, he won the Michelob ULTRA Asia Open men’s singles title in an all-Vietnamese final against Ly Hoang Nam, taking that match 21-13, 21-23, 21-11 in front of a tournament built around a total cash prize pool of VNĐ3 billion, or US$38,000. Taken together, those wins over Duong and Ly Hoang Nam show a player who is no longer surprising people once, but repeating the same outcome against the region’s best.
That repeatability is what makes the BIDV Cup result important for Vietnam’s competitive order. Huynh is now part of a domestic race that is producing multiple top-end contenders instead of one obvious star, and that depth changes how selection conversations will look for national teams, how sponsors read the market, and how tournament fields across Southeast Asia are ranked. Pickleball in Vietnam is no longer being carried by one breakout run; it is being defined by a small cluster of players who keep trading results against each other on major stages.
The BIDV Cup also drew beyond Vietnam’s borders, a reminder that this was a regional benchmark rather than a local title chase. India’s Mihika Yadav earned Pro Women’s Singles bronze, while Harsh Mehta won men’s doubles gold with Quang Duong, giving the event a broader Asian cast. That mix of Vietnamese contenders and imported medalists is part of why Huynh’s victory lands as more than a line in a bracket.
Huynh’s profile is still relatively young. PickleWave lists the Ho Chi Minh City-based player with 15 professional tournaments, 64 career matches and a 51.6 percent career win rate as of June 2026. TTC Group had already framed his BIDV Cup appearance as part of a run that included wins over Duong and Ly Hoang Nam, and the final in Vietnam confirmed that those victories were not one-off shocks. They are starting to look like the shape of the new order.
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