TRIPLE THREAT: LONG BOOKS THREE SEMIFINALS IN SINGAPORE
| July 24, 2026
Yufei Long is three for three at the Leapmotor Singapore Open 2026. The Women’s Singles top seed came through Day 2 with a clean sweep across her three events, booking semifinal spots in Women’s Singles, Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles without dropping a game.
The Women’s Singles run was the most emphatic. The Chinese star dismissed Yingyi Yang 11-3, 11-2 in the round of 16 before ending Nok Yiu Tang’s tournament 11-7, 11-2 in the quarterfinal. She has faced 22 points across two matches.
The seeds around her did not fare so well. Both the #3 and #4 Women’s Singles seeds went out in the Round of 16. Aiko Yoshitomi fell to Indian qualifier Agnimitra Bhattacharya 8-11, 9-11, while Ho Tam took the opening game against Kaitlynn Hart before the Australian turned it around 2-11, 11-5, 11-2.
FOLLOW TOURNAMENT ACTION
The biggest scalp of the day came in Mixed Doubles.
Nok Yiu Tang and Eunggwon Kim arrived in Singapore as the top seeds and the most established Mixed Doubles pairing on Tour, the one constant in a discipline otherwise stacked with brand new partnerships. Xiao Yi Wang-Beckvall and Robert Stirling ended that run in the quarterfinals, taking the first game 11-7 and then digging out a 15-13 second to close it in straight games. Stirling knows what it takes in this discipline, having won Mixed Doubles gold at the Hong Kong Open 2025.
They were not the only seeds to fall. Lingwei Kong and Adam Harvey, the #4 seeds and another first-time partnership in Asia, were beaten 11-7, 11-9 by Jaeda Minniefield and Luc Pham. Kara Wheatley and Hong Kit Wong also delivered on the quarterfinal threat they carried into this draw, coming from a game down to upset #3 seeds Yoshitomi and Len Yang 7-11, 11-8, 11-9.
Men’s Doubles went the other way entirely. Every projected semifinal landed.
Eunggwon Kim and Hong Kit Wong reached the last four with an 11-9, 11-4 win over Prycen Haas and Luc Pham. The top seeds are still chasing that elusive first gold together after a silver and four bronzes in Asia. Waiting for them are Hien Truong and Kenta Miyoshi, who recovered from dropping the opening game to Jace Morris and Caden Nemoff to advance 9-11, 11-0, 11-7. The singles rivalry between Wong and Truong rolls into doubles exactly as the bracket suggested.
On the other side, Len Yang and Collin Johns eased past Hoang Nam Ly and Nathan Khamphilath 11-2, 12-10 to stay on track for a third straight final together after gold at the Panas Kuala Lumpur Open and silver in Tokyo. Robert Stirling and Lucas Pascoe stand in the way, through 11-5, 11-6 against Josh Barber and Colin Wong.
Semifinal action kicks off Saturday, July 25 at 9:00 AM (GMT+8). While tickets for Championship Court are sold out, entry to watch all other courts is free, including access to Pickletown.
