MB Ho Chi Minh City Open 2026: Hien Truong Gets Hometown Gold, Andie Dikosavljevic Wins First Title
Hien Truong has spent this entire season falling agonisingly short on home soil. Silver here, bronze there, another silver after that—three medals on Vietnamese ground, none of them gold. On Sunday, in front of a Ho Chi Minh City crowd that barely sat down for ninety minutes, he finally broke through at the MB Ho Chi Minh City Open 2026. It just came in doubles rather than the singles title everyone assumed he was chasing.
Truong and partner Quan Do needed every bit of that 90 minutes, too. Hoang Nam Ly and Collin Johns took the opening game 13-11 and looked, for a spell, like they might spoil the homecoming entirely. Truong and Do had other ideas, finding a different level altogether to close out the final 11-13, 11-6, 11-4. It’s now three titles together as a pairing, following gold at last year’s Vibrant Linping Hangzhou Open and this year’s Capital Securities Beijing Open, and it keeps Truong’s record in Men’s Doubles finals spotless. For Johns, one of the most decorated doubles players American pickleball has produced, it was a rare afternoon on the losing side of a final.
Whether gold in doubles scratches quite the same itch as gold in singles is a fair question. But after a season of near-misses on his own turf, Truong will hardly be picky about which discipline finally delivered.
Andie Dikosavljevic Gets Her Breakthrough, Too
If Truong’s story was about redemption, Andie Dikosavljevic‘s was about arrival. The Australian came into the week with a Triple Crown from the PPA250 Melbourne already banked back home, but no PPA Tour Asia gold anywhere on her résumé. She left with two.
Her first came in Women’s Singles, where she ended qualifier Trang Huynh’s remarkable run through the draw with an 11-2, 9-11, 11-7 win in the final—Dikosavljevic’s maiden PPA Tour singles title, and a genuinely significant marker for a player who’d previously found Asia the one circuit that wouldn’t quite yield for her. She wasn’t done. Partnering top seed Yufei Long, Dikosavljevic added Women’s Doubles gold as well, edging Xiao Yi Wang-Beckvall and Nok Yiu Tang 12-10, 11-5 for a double crown on the very day her Asia breakthrough finally arrived. For Long, it was simply another doubles title to add to the one she’d already claimed in Singapore.
The Rest of the Field Had Its Say
Elsewhere, Adam Harvey settled a score of his own, going one better than the silver he took on his Asia debut in Singapore a fortnight earlier by cruising past Luc Pham 11-4, 11-4 in an all-American Men’s Singles final. Pham had already done the hard work of eliminating top seed Jack Wong Hong-kit to get there, but had no answer for Harvey once the final began.
Hong-kit didn’t leave Vietnam empty-handed regardless. After his singles and men’s doubles campaigns both fell short earlier in the week, he paired with Lingwei Kong to claim Mixed Doubles gold, rallying from a game down to beat top seeds Nok Yiu Tang and Eunggwon Kim 4-11, 11-8, 11-9.
Between Truong’s long-awaited home gold and Dikosavljevic’s first PPA Tour singles crown, Ho Chi Minh City delivered exactly the kind of finals day that makes a tournament worth remembering — even if, for at least one home favourite, it arrived in a slightly different colour than expected.
