Collin Johns and Len Yang beat Hong Kong's Eunggwon Kim and Hong Kit Wong 11-3, 8-11, 11-5 on Thursday at the Hang Seng Bank Hong Kong Slam 2026. That puts them in a Men's Doubles quarterfinal on Friday against Collin's brother Ben Johns and Gabriel Tardio, the top seeds, who beat Luc Pham and Will Mackinnon 11-2, 11-5.
The two pairs come in with titles from this season. Ben Johns and Tardio won the Men's Doubles at the MB Hanoi Cup in April, 11-0, 7-11, 11-6 against Hayden Patriquin and Federico Staksrud. Collin Johns and Yang won it together at the Panas Kuala Lumpur Open, the Singapore Open and the Skechers Shenzhen Open.
Wong is the last Hong Kong player left
The doubles loss ended Wong's week with Kim, but not his singles. He lost the first game to Francis Chi 11-8, then won the next two 11-0 and 11-2. Nok Yiu Tang, who lost to Chao Yi Wang in the Women's Singles, went out of the Women's Doubles with Wang as well: Mari Humberg and Cailyn Campbell beat the seventh seeds 11-3, 6-11, 11-4. That leaves Wong as the only Hong Kong player in any of the five draws.
HONG KIT WONG✓FRANCIS CHI
His quarterfinal is against Staksrud, the second seed, who lost his first game 11-2 to Eric Oncins on Thursday before winning 11-4, 11-6. They met in the quarterfinals of the MB Hanoi Cup in April, where Staksrud won 7-11, 11-6, 12-10.
Seeds go out in the doubles
Six top-eight doubles seeds lost on court on Thursday, besides the two Alshon teams that gave walkovers. Quan Do and Hien Truong beat Augustus Ge and Armaan Bhatia, the seventh seeds in the Men's Doubles, 11-5, 13-11. In the Women's Doubles, Judit Castillo and Kiora Kunimoto beat the fifth seeds, Lacy Schneemann and Ting Chieh Wei, 11-8, 11-3, and Alix Truong and Jessie Irvine beat the eighth seeds, Lingwei Kong and Yufei Long, 12-10 in the third game. Wang and Tang, the seventh seeds, were the third Women's Doubles seed to go.
The other two were in the Mixed, both beaten in straight games. Dylan Frazier and Kaitlyn Christian beat Rachel Rohrabacher and Tardio, the fifth seeds, 12-10, 14-12. Sahra Dennehy and Tama Shimabukuro beat the seventh seeds, Catherine Parenteau and Noe Khlif, 11-7, 12-10.
Dennehy and Danni-Elle Townsend beat Allyce Jones and Christian 11-7, 4-11, 11-6 in the Women's Doubles. Dennehy and Shimabukuro are the only players still in all three of their events. Shimabukuro, who is 15, also beat Pham 11-2, 11-2 in the Men's Singles and won the Men's Doubles with JW Johnson 11-1, 11-3 against Casey Diamond and Tyson McGuffin.
Dennehy and Kunimoto reach the semifinals
Dennehy, the fifth seed, beat Rika Fujiwara 11-6, 8-11, 11-3 in the first Women's Singles quarterfinal on Friday morning. Kunimoto, the third seed, lost the first game to Long 11-8 and won the next two 11-6, 11-3.
SAHRA DENNEHY✓
RIKA FUJIWARAKIORA KUNIMOTO✓YUFEI LONGStill to play on Friday
Kaitlyn Christian, the top seed, plays Castillo, and Wang, the second seed, plays Andie Dikosavljevic in the other two Women's Singles quarterfinals. Six of the eight women in the quarterfinals have won a Women's Singles title on the PPA Tour Asia this season: Christian, Wang, Fujiwara, Dennehy, Long and Dikosavljevic.
In the Men's Singles, Khlif plays Christopher Haworth, the top seed, Shimabukuro plays Grayson Goldin, Staksrud plays Wong, and Garnett plays Hunter Johnson, the third seed. Goldin beat Shimabukuro 11-8, 11-4 in the semifinals of the Skechers Shenzhen Open in August on his way to the title.
The Women's Doubles quarterfinals come after the singles, then the Men's Doubles and the Mixed. Dennehy and Townsend play the top seeds, Anna Bright and Anna Leigh Waters. Dennehy and Shimabukuro meet Bright and Patriquin, the second seeds in the Mixed. Ben Johns and Waters, the top Mixed seeds, play Jonathan Truong and Irvine.
In the Men's Doubles, Shimabukuro and JW Johnson play Oncins and Khlif, Staksrud and Patriquin play Do and Hien Truong, and Zane Navratil and George Wall, through on Thursday's walkover from Yuta Funemizu and Christian Alshon, play Connor Garnett and Frazier. Frazier and Christian play Wei and Hunter Johnson in the Mixed.
Round of 16 results
Every round-of-16 match from Thursday, by event, with the three walkovers at the end.
Men's Singles
NOE KHLIF✓HARRISON BROWNCHRISTOPHER HAWORTH✓HIEN TRUONGTAMA SHIMABUKURO✓LUC PHAM
FEDERICO STAKSRUD✓ERIC ONCINSHONG KIT WONG✓FRANCIS CHICONNOR GARNETT✓MITCHELL HARGREAVESHUNTER JOHNSON✓TYSON MCGUFFINWomen's Singles
KAITLYN CHRISTIAN✓HO TAM
JUDIT CASTILLO✓HANNAH BLATTYUFEI LONG✓SOPHIA NHI HUYNHKIORA KUNIMOTO✓AIKO YOSHITOMICHAO YI WANG✓NOK YIU TANGANDIE DIKOSAVLJEVIC✓LACY SCHNEEMANNSAHRA DENNEHY✓SOPHIA PHUONG ANH TRANRIKA FUJIWARA✓MARI HUMBERGMen's Doubles
Women's Doubles
Mixed Doubles
Walkovers
Event | Advanced | Walkover from |
|---|---|---|
Men's Singles | Grayson Goldin (USA) | Christian Alshon (USA) |
Men's Doubles | Zane Navratil (USA) / George Wall (AUS) | Yuta Funemizu (JPN) / Christian Alshon (USA) |
Mixed Doubles | Ting Chieh Wei (TPE) / Hunter Johnson (USA) | Parris Todd (USA) / Christian Alshon (USA) |
Quarterfinal results so far
Friday's results up to the time of publishing.
Women's Singles
KIORA KUNIMOTO✓YUFEI LONGSAHRA DENNEHY✓RIKA FUJIWARAPrize money and points
The Hong Kong Slam carries up to US$1.1 million in pro prize money. The table shows the amounts for pros on a Gold contract, in US dollars, with World Pickleball Ranking points.
Singles | Doubles | Mixed | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gold | 14,000 | 56,000 | 46,000 | 1500 |
Silver | 7,500 | 30,000 | 26,000 | 1200 |
Semifinal | 3,800 | 15,000 | 12,600 | 750 |
Quarterfinal | 1,900 | 7,600 | 6,400 | 300 |
More from the Hong Kong Slam
Results verified against the official bracket on pickleballtournaments.com and the PPA Tour Asia tournament page. Photographs: PPA Tour Asia.