Pickleball Vietnam Masters Petrolimex Cup 2025 officially opens from November 25

On November 25, 2025, at the D-Joy Nam Saigon Stadium Complex, Ho Chi Minh City, the Pickleball Vietnam Masters Petrolimex Cup 2025 officially kicked off. The tournament is considered a landmark event, marking the strong professionalization of the Pickleball movement in Vietnam. With a scale of more than 1,000 domestic and international athletes, a system of 1,500 DRP points and a total prize value of up to 5 billion VND, the Vietnam Masters Petrolimex Cup 2025 is considered the "first Grand Slam" of Vietnamese Pickleball.

The tournament showed great attraction when up to 1000 athletes registered to participate. This record number of athletes comes from many countries with developed Pickleball movements. Among them, the presence of outstanding international players - Megan Fudge (top female American player, won many prestigious championships at PPA Tour and APP Tour) and Jack Munro (male player from Australia with impressive performance at PPA tournaments), will certainly help increase the professional quality of the tournament and create valuable opportunities for Vietnamese players to compete. Along with that, on the host side, many top athletes in the Vietnamese Pickleball community such as Quang Duong, Phuc Huynh, Tran Gia Hung, Thanh Thao... participated in the Advanced and Upper Intermediate level groups, promising to bring exciting competitions.

The tournament also has the participation of many amateur athletes, local clubs and the international community, showing that Pickleball is becoming an attractive, easy-to-play, and easy-to-spread sport . The tournament is organized on a large scale and high quality, creating a foundation to expand the professional tournament system, attract more international sponsors and coaches, and create opportunities to discover new talents.

Vietnam Masters Petrolimex Cup 2025 is not just a simple sports competition event, the tournament also creates a strong push for the Pickleball movement in Vietnam - a sport that is rapidly exploding in many provinces and cities across the country.

Vietnam Masters Petrolimex Cup 2025 has a diverse competition system according to age groups and levels (19+, 35+, 50+, 60+) creating conditions for a large number of amateur and semi-professional athletes to participate. In particular, with the application of the 1,500-point DRP ranking, the tournament becomes one of the most valuable playgrounds in the Vietnam Pickleball system. This not only helps to clearly classify the level of athletes, but also serves as a basis for building a long-term competition roadmap, towards integration with the regional and international tournament system.

In addition, the support of Petrolimex as the main sponsor also contributes to raising the level of the tournament, providing resources to help the Organizing Committee expand its scale, develop facilities, and improve the quality of communication and promotion activities. At the same time, with careful, methodical, professional preparation and the participation of top athletes from Vietnam and the world , the tournament promises to bring extremely attractive matches, bringing many emotions to the audience. This is an important stepping stone for Vietnamese sports to continue to develop this new sport in a professional direction, ready to participate and achieve results in major arenas in the region.

Some of the leading faces in the Vietnamese and international Pickleball community:

Source: https://www.petrolimex.com.vn/nd/hoat-dong-van-hoa-xa-hoi/giai-pickleball-vietnam-masters-petrolimex-cup-2025-chinh-thuc-khai-mac-tu-25-11.html