WONG SERVES UP A THREE-COURSE MEAL ON CHAMPIONSHIP COURT
Welcome to Wong’s Kitchen. Championship Court belonged to Hong Kit Wong on Day 2 of the Capital Securities Beijing Open 2026, and the most decorated man on tour last year was cooking.
Wong played three times under the spotlight and won the lot. Jimmy Liong went down 11-4, 11-8 in Men’s Singles, Eunggwon Kim joined him for an 11-5, 11-3 win in Men’s Doubles, and Christa Gecheva partnered him to a 12-10, 11-6 win in Mixed Doubles. Three draws, three wins, one court, and Triple Crown watch is on. Wong is into the quarterfinals in all three.
The Men’s Doubles result nudged the running story along, Wong and Kim, the #1 seeds, taking another step toward a first gold together in Asia. The Mixed win closed out the home run of Thomas Yu and Yufei Long, the pair who lit up the opening day, this time stopped by Wong and Gecheva.
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Wong’s reward for the perfect day is a quarterfinal with real noise behind it. 16-year-old He Phoenix is into the last eight on home soil. The Chinese teenager backed up an earlier win over Yuta Funemizu by knocking out the #6 seed Mitchell Hargreaves 11-1, 11-5. Now he gets to take on Wong, with a Beijing crowd at his back.
It was a good day for the host more widely. Yufei Long and Lingwei Kong both advanced in Women’s Singles, and Zefeng Li helped pull off one of the day’s upsets. He alongside Nicholas Wiseman accounted for the #4 Men’s Doubles seeds Joseph Wild and George Wall in three tough fought games.
The seeds took their share of hits too. Luc Pham had an afternoon to forget, the #4 seed in Men’s Singles letting a one-game lead slip against qualifier Harrison Brown before losing 4-11, 11-4, 11-2, then going out of Men’s Doubles as well, he and Roman Estareja beaten by the Malaysian pair of Los Shi Sheng and Jimmy Liong. Brown marches on to a quarterfinal with the #7 seed Nasa Hatakeyama. Hargreaves matched the double exit, gone from the doubles alongside Zachary Grabovic. In Women’s Singles, the #7 seed Sophia Phuong Anh Tran fell to Japan’s Seina Shima.
At the top, order held. Chao Yi Wang, Sahra Dennehy, Zane Ford and Hien Truong all booked quarterfinal places, and Wong is not the only one on Triple Crown Watch. Both Wang and Dennehy are alive in all three of their events as well, the rivals chasing the same clean sweep and, most likely, each other to complete it. The women’s draw keeps tracking toward the collision everyone is waiting on.
Be sure ot tune in Friday June 19 at 9:00 (GMT+8) when quarterfinal action kicks off in Beijing.
Source: PPA Tour Asia. "Wong Serves Up a Three-Course Meal on Championship Court." Published June 19, 2026. Available here