MB Ho Chi Minh City Open 2026: Hien Truong Gets Another Crack at Gold in Front of Home Crowd

Vietnam’s Hien Truong has made a habit of nearly winning at home. A silver here, a bronze there, another silver after that—three podium finishes on Vietnamese soil, and not one of them the colour he actually wants. This week in Ho Chi Minh City, he gets a fourth go at putting that right.

Truong lines up as the No. 2 seed in Men’s Singles at the MB Ho Chi Minh City Open 2026, with a home crowd behind him that’s clearly hoping the fourth time proves the charm. Silver at last year’s Vietnam Cup, silver again at this year’s Hanoi Cup, bronze at the Vietnam Open—the near-misses have started to form a pattern of their own, and Truong will be desperate to break it.

Standing squarely in his way is the man nobody on Tour currently wants to see across the net. Hong Kit Wong arrives fresh off a third straight Men’s Singles title in Singapore, a genuinely historic run, and lines up as top seed once more with a fourth consecutive gold well within reach—territory no one else on the Tour has come close to touching. Adam Harvey, who announced himself in some style by reaching the Singapore final on his Asia debut, rounds out the seeding picture at No. 3, and isn’t exactly flying under anyone’s radar anymore.

Doubles Draws Bring Familiar Faces and Fresh Pairings

Truong gets a second crack at gold in the Men’s Doubles too, reuniting with Quan Do at No. 3—a partnership that’s already delivered two titles together, most recently in Beijing. At the very top of that draw sit Eunggwon Kim and Jack Wong Hong-kit, still hunting their first doubles gold as a pair despite a run of results that suggests it’s only a matter of time. Further down at No. 4, there’s a genuinely new look, with Hoang Nam Ly and Collin Johns teaming up for the first time. Between Truong and Nam Ly, Vietnamese fans have no shortage of home interest to follow across the bracket.

The women’s draw carries its own storylines forward from Singapore. Yufei Long, who left that event with a double crown in singles and doubles, arrives as the top seed in Women’s Singles, though a treble is off the cards this week with the Chinese star sitting out mixed doubles entirely. Rika Fujiwara joins her at No. 3, making her first appearance since claiming singles gold on home soil in Tokyo.

There’s also unfinished business in Mixed Doubles, where Jaeda Minniefield and Luc Pham—whose very first tournament together somehow ended in gold in Singapore—return at No. 6 to find out whether that breakthrough was the real deal or simply a good week.

Play gets under way Thursday, 6 August 2026, at 8:00am (GMT+7) at New Sports Club.