Shock: Vietnam's table tennis champion wants to withdraw from SEA Games 33

According to Tuoi Tre, the Vietnam Table Tennis Federation is trying to convince player Dinh Anh Hoang to participate in the 33rd SEA Games according to the plan set out by the coaching staff.

Dinh Anh Hoang (right) and Mai Ngoc are the defending champions.

Vietnamese table tennis fans are very familiar with the name Dinh Anh Hoang, as he has continuously played explosively over the past 2 years.

At the 32nd SEA Games in Cambodia, Dinh Anh Hoang and his female teammate Tran Mai Ngoc played very impressively, thereby winning the gold medal in the mixed doubles event.

At that time, Dinh Anh Hoang was only 21 years old, opening up a promising future. And he did not stop at doubles but continued to explode in singles.

Recently, Anh Hoang continued to shine and won the men's singles event of the 2025 National Table Tennis Tournament for Excellent Players, showing extremely high performance.

At the 33rd SEA Games, Dinh Anh Hoang was expected to continue to shine. But then in a recent personal statement, the tennis player of the T&T People's Public Security team suddenly announced his intention to withdraw from the SEA Games in Thailand.

The reason given by Dinh Anh Hoang was because his name was not included in the list of athletes participating in the men's singles event.

It is known that the SEA Games Organizing Committee allows each country to register a maximum of 2 singles players for each event. And in the men's singles event, the Vietnamese table tennis team registered 2 athletes: Nguyen Anh Tu and Nguyen Duc Tuan.

This decision is not really surprising, because Anh Tu - Duc Tuan are both more experienced players than Dinh Anh Hoang. Both have had stable performance for many years.

Duc Tuan is also the men's singles champion at SEA Games 31. Although Anh Hoang has just won the Excellent Tennis Players Tournament, it cannot be affirmed that he is of a higher level than the two senior tennis players at the present time.

The Vietnamese table tennis coaching staff also hopes that Anh Hoang will continue to impress in the doubles events, thereby winning a gold medal at the 33rd SEA Games. But looking from an athlete's perspective, it is understandable why Dinh Anh Hoang is upset.

A source from Tuoi Tre newspaper said that the Vietnam Table Tennis Federation will now try to convince the 23-year-old player to continue participating in the 33rd SEA Games as originally planned.

If Dinh Anh Hoang does not attend the SEA Games, this will be a painful blow to the ambitions of the Vietnamese table tennis team in Thailand.

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HUY DANG

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/soc-nha-vo-dich-bong-ban-viet-nam-muon-rut-khoi-sea-games-33-2025120516021625.htm