Tennis player Tien Minh's wife won the Vietnam Open badminton tournament

Tennis player Vu Thi Trang - wife of Vietnamese badminton legend Nguyen Tien Minh won two consecutive matches in one day at the Yonex Sunrise Vietnam Open 2025 badminton tournament.

Today (September 9), the Vietnam Open badminton tournament, part of the World Tour Super 100 system of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), officially started at Nguyen Du Stadium (HCMC). The couple Vu Thi Trang - Nguyen Tien Minh competed on the opening day but the results were opposite.

Vu Thi Trang won the right to enter the main round of the women's singles of the 2025 Vietnam Open badminton tournament in Ho Chi Minh City.

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In the women's singles, Vu Thi Trang ranked 129th in the world so she had to compete from the qualifying round, facing tennis player Aashi Rawat (India, ranked 134th in the world) in the first match. Although she was defeated by her opponent in the first game with a score of 21/15, the wife of tennis player Nguyen Tien Minh rose up strongly, winning the remaining two games with scores of 21/17, 21/15 respectively to have a final victory of 2-1.

On the same afternoon, Vu Thi Trang competed against Hong Kong player Liang Ka Wing (ranked 162nd in the world) in the decisive match for the ticket to the main round of the women's singles. In this match, Vu Thi Trang started off well with a 21/15 victory in the first set, but Liang Ka Wing won 21/12, equalizing the score 1-1. Former No. 1 badminton player in Vietnam's women's singles, Vu Thi Trang, rose strongly in the third set and won 21/8, closing out the final victory 2-1 and the ticket to the main round.

Nguyen Tien Minh stopped at the men's singles qualifying round

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Meanwhile, Nguyen Tien Minh (ranked 358th in the world) also competed in the men's singles qualifying round, facing Indian tennis player Orijit Chaliha (ranked 309th in the world). The experience of the 42-year-old tennis player, who won the world bronze medal, helped Nguyen Tien Minh successfully overcome his opponent in the first set and had a narrow victory of 22/20. Unfortunately, losing 18/21 to Orijit Chaliha in the second set made Nguyen Tien Minh run out of breath in the third set and accept defeat 1-2 and stop.

Tomorrow, the number 1 hope of Vietnamese badminton in the Vietnam Open, Nguyen Thuy Linh (ranked 18th in the world), will compete against the world's 70th ranked player Liang Ting-yu (Taiwan). Thus, in the main round of the women's singles, Vietnamese badminton has 2 players participating: Nguyen Thuy Linh and Vu Thi Trang.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/ba-xa-tay-vot-tien-minh-thang-che-tre-o-giai-cau-long-viet-nam-mo-rong-185250909161150024.htm