MB Ho Chi Minh City Open 2026: Andie Dikosavljevic Leads Finalists for Championship Sunday
Andie Dikosavljevic turned up in Vietnam still buzzing from a triple crown back home in Australia. She’s about to find out whether that form travels as she goes for gold at the MB Ho Chi Minh City Open.
The Australian has been the standout of the week at the MB Ho Chi Minh City Open, reaching two finals without dropping so much as a single set along the way. Asia has been the one circuit that’s never quite yielded for her, and Saturday’s Women’s Singles semi-final did nothing to suggest that’s about to change in her favour—she took apart Nok Yiu Tang 11-1, 11-5, barely letting up from the opening point.
Standing between her and the title is a very different kind of story. Qualifier Trang Huynh has made a habit this week of losing the first game in every one of her main draw matches, only to storm back and win the next two each time—most recently against Mihae Kwon, coming through 6-11, 11-9, 11-5. It’s the furthest she’s ever gone at a PPA Tour Asia event, having never previously reached beyond the Round of 16. Sunday pits a player who finishes fast against one who starts slow and simply refuses to fold.
Dikosavljevic’s second shot at gold comes in Women’s Doubles, where she and top seed Yufei Long dispatched Albie Huang and Yu-chieh Hsieh 11-3, 11-5 to reach the final. Waiting there are Xiao Yi Wang-Beckvall and Nok Yiu Tang, who needed every point of a 11-9, 10-12, 14-12 marathon to see off Aiko Yoshitomi and Kei Sawaki in the tightest contest of the day.
The Men’s Draws Belong to the Underdogs
Jack Wong Hong-kit’s bid for a fourth consecutive Men’s Singles title didn’t survive the semi-finals. The top seed fell 5-11, 11-7, 11-9 to Luc Pham, while the home crowd’s own hopes took a hit in the other half, with Adam Harvey brushing aside local favourite Hien Truong 11-4, 11-5. Harvey now gets a chance to go one better than the singles silver he claimed in Singapore last month, facing Pham in a final built entirely on giant-killers.
Men’s Doubles produced the match of the tournament. Top seeds Eunggwon Kim and Hong-kit, still hunting their first title together, were taken all the way by the newly formed pairing of Hoang Nam Ly and Collin Johns, who scraped through 11-5, 13-15, 11-7 with the home crowd roaring them on at every point. They’ll meet Hien Truong and Quan Do in the final, the two-time champions having reunited to beat Robert Stirling and Kenta Miyoshi 5-11, 11-2, 11-8. With Ly and Truong on opposite sides of that draw, Vietnam is already guaranteed a finalist in Men’s Doubles regardless of how Sunday goes.
Mixed Doubles rounds out the card, with Lingwei Kong and Hong Kit Wong cruising past Aiko Yoshitomi and Lucas Pascoe 11-4, 11-1 to reach the final. They’ll face top seeds Nok Yiu Tang and Eunggwon Kim, who ended Vietnam’s last remaining hope in that category by edging Ngoc Si and Joseph Wild 12-10, 12-10.
Championship Sunday gets under way at 9:00 a.m. (GMT+7) on August 9 at New Sports Club.
