Jack Wong Hong-kit Headlines Macau Open as Lingwei Kong Arrives in Style
Jack Wong Hong-kit is coming home. Almost.
The brackets for the Macao Open 2026 are out, and the Hong Kong Open 2025 champion sits at the top of the Men’s Singles draw as the No. 1 seed when action gets underway at the Venetian Macao on Thursday, 28 May 2026. Macao sits just across the Pearl River Delta from Hong Kong—as close to a home game as the tour gets—and Wong will have the crowd on his side as he chases another gold to add to his collection.
His projected quarterfinal against No. 6 seed Marco Leung could be the draw’s first major flashpoint. Leung is a Macao local and a three-time Men’s Singles quarterfinalist who will have his own crowd and his own motivation. A home crowd, a seed next to his name, and a chip on his shoulder—that combination could make Leung a genuine threat to go deeper than he has before.
On the other side of the draw sits No. 2 seed Tama Shimabukuro, the 15-year-old American who has entered across three events again following a packed week in Kuala Lumpur. Shimabukuro carries the No. 2 seed in Men’s Singles, the No. 1 seed in Men’s Doubles alongside Armaan Bhatia, and the No. 3 seed in Mixed Doubles with Jamie Haas. He left Kuala Lumpur with his first gold in Asia—a Mixed Doubles title—and will be eager to add to it. Stamina, though, will be the question that follows him all week.
Lingwei Kong Arrives—Quietly Is Not Her Style
The Macao Open’s most anticipated debut belongs to China’s Lingwei Kong.
The world No. 35 in Women’s Doubles is making her PPA Tour Asia debut and she has not come quietly. Kong enters as the No. 1 seed in two events—partnering Xiao Yi Wang-Beckvall in Women’s Doubles and Len Yang in Mixed Doubles. She is one of several players stepping onto the Asian tour for the first time this season after building a strong résumé on the PPA Tour in the United States. Three events, two top seeds. It is a debut worth watching closely.
Doubles Partners Turned Singles Rivals
In Women’s Singles, Yufei Long returns as the No. 1 seed after her quarterfinal exit in Kuala Lumpur, where Mihae Kwon sent her home in what was the upset of the tournament. Albie Huang is the No. 2 seed, with Rika Fujiwara at No. 3 and Sophia Tran at No. 4.
The round of 16 sets up the week’s most intriguing singles collision: Kwon against Nok Yiu Tang, who were Women’s Doubles partners just last week in Kuala Lumpur. Now they are on opposite sides of the net. Kwon arrives on the back of her breakthrough run—defeating Long and reaching the semifinals before claiming bronze—and will be looking to prove that performance was no fluke. Tang, meanwhile, will have every reason to make sure her former partner’s momentum stops here.
Revenge on the Menu in Men’s Doubles
The Men’s Doubles draw sets up a rematch of the Panas Kuala Lumpur Open final at the top of the bracket. Bhatia and Shimabukuro are back as the No. 1 seeds, with Collin Johns and Len Yang seeded second—the same Johns-Yang pairing that beat them 11-3, 11-6 in Kuala Lumpur to claim gold. Quick adjustments will be needed if the top seeds want to flip that result.
Eunggwon Kim and Hong Kit Wong return as the No. 3 seeds, a partnership that has accumulated one silver and three bronze medals on PPA Tour Asia together—every colour but gold. The path to the top of the podium, however, is anything but clear. The depth in the draw is striking: Mitchell Hargreaves and Kenta Miyoshi are seeded fourth, Robert Stirling and Joseph Wild at No. 5, Prycen Haas and Lucas Pascoe at No. 6, Luc Pham and Joshua Yoo at No. 7, and Easton Horricks and Wil Shaffer round out the top eight.
The Macao Open 2026 runs on 28–31 May at the Venetian Macao in Macao, China.
