TAM REACHES TWO FINALS AS MACAO DELIVERS DRAMA
| May 30, 2026
Ho Tam has been the story of semifinal Saturday the Macao Open 2026. The unseeded Vietnamese athlete booked her place in two Championship Sunday finals, reaching the Women’s Singles decider with an 11-6, 11-6 win over Anni Xie and then teaming with Mihae Kwon to fight past Rika Fujiwara and Kei Sawaki 8-11, 11-2, 11-8 in the Women’s Doubles penultimate round.
Tam has no PPA Tour Asia medals to her name. Now she is leaving Macao with two; the only question is the color.
Her Women’s Singles path has been anything but smooth. She needed three games to get past Tya Karina in the Round of 16, three more to upset #4 seed Sophia Phuong Anh Tran in the quarterfinals, and then produced her most composed performance of the week against Xie in the semifinals.
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Two golds up for grabs and two opponents standing in the way. Tam faces Rika Fujiwara in the Women’s Singles final. In Women’s Doubles she and Kwon take on #3 seeds Jamie Haas and Pei-Chuan Kao, who upset #1 seeds Xiao Yi Wang-Beckvall and Lingwei Kong in the other semifinal 11-4, 10-12, 11-1.
Fujiwara takes down top seed
In the other half of the draw Rika Fujiwara defeated #1 seed Yufei Long 11-7, 11-4 in the Women’s Singles semifinals to book her spot in the gold medal showdown. Fujiwara is a former professional tennis player who reached a career-high world No.13 in WTA doubles and was a 2002 French Open doubles semifinalist. Roland Garros is currently underway in Paris; now Fujiwara is writing her own chapter on a different court in Macao.
She already holds a Women’s Singles bronze on PPA Tour Asia and enters Championship Sunday as the player with the experience and the form, having taken down the top seed without dropping a game. But this will be a first-time meeting between Fujiwara and Tam so it will be anyone’s guess how they square up.
Shimabukuro’s triple crown bid ends but double remains alive
Tama Shimabukuro’s hopes of a triple crown ended in the Mixed Doubles semifinals where he and Jamie Haas fell to Nok Yiu Tang and Eunggwon Kim 11-5, 11-6. But there is still a milestone ahead. The 15-year-old has two finals on Championship Sunday. In Men’s Singles he faces #1 seed Hong Kit Wong after overcoming Matthew Finnerty 11-4, 11-4. In Men’s Doubles he and Armaan Bhatia edged past #3 seeds Kim and Wong 12-10, 9-11, 11-8 to set up a final against Mitchell Hargreaves and Kenta Miyoshi.
Shimabukuro is yet to win a Men’s Singles medal in Asia, evening fell short of the medal rounds at the Panas Kuala Lumpur Open earlier this month despite top four billing. A double crown on Championship Sunday would change the conversation and set the tone for the rest of 2026.
Wong eyes second Men’s Singles gold
Hong Kit Wong was ruthless in the Men’s Singles semifinals, leapfrogging Kenta Miyoshi 11-1, 11-6. The Hong Kong Open 2025 champion and #1 seed has looked in control all week in singles and a gold would send him to the top of the Men’s Singles overall medal ladder in Asia. He currently holds one gold, two silver and two bronze in the event.
Wong and Shimabukuro have never met in Men’s Singles. The first encounter is going to be a blockbuster.
Check out all the results from today here.
