The Hong Kong, China Tennis Association (HKCTA) has earlier confirmed the official roster of players who is competing at the upcoming Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games. The squad features a pair of players who cracked the world’s top 100 in recent weeks, with Coleman Wong peaking at No. 92 in men’s singles and Eudice Chong No. 57 in women’s doubles. The tennis events will take place from 27 September-3 October at the Nagoya City Higashiyama Park Tennis Center.

Following a rigorous selection process and a year of highly competitive international performances, the finalised squad features a mix of seasoned professionals, as well as rising young talent. The team will compete across multiple disciplines, including Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, and Mixed Doubles.

The official roster of players who will compete in the tennis events:

Men’s Singles: Coleman Wong, Kai Thompson
Women’s Singles: Adithya Karunaratne, Yandy Shek
Men’s Doubles: Wong Tsz Fu/Nicholas Cheng, Jack Cheng/Walter Tam
Women’s Doubles: Eudice Chong/Cody Wong, Kallista Liu/Vienna Lai
Mixed Doubles: Kai Thompson/Eudice Chong, Wong Tsz Fu/Cody Wong

Coach in charge: Yoann Lemee
Coaches: James Allemby, Francesco Restelli, Feng Nian

A total of five golds, five silvers, and ten bronze medals will be up for grabs in these five events in Aichi-Nagoya. All four semifinalists will receive bronze medals, as there will be no third place playoff.

Moreover, the men’s and women’s singles champions at this year’s Asian Games will earn a Continental Qualification place for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. The same will apply to the pair of winners from the 2027 Pan American Games, 2027 African Games, and 2027 Pacific Games.

This was the exact path Zhang Zhichen and Zheng Qinwen—the 2022 Asian Games singles gold medallists—took to get to the Paris 2024 Olympics where Zhang partnered with Wang Xinyu to capture a silver in mixed doubles, while Zheng took home China’s historic gold in women’s singles.

The seeds for men’s singles are:

108	Coleman Wong	HKG	1
109	Aleksandr Shevchenko	KAZ	2
113	Wu Yibing	CHN	3
158	Kwon Soonwoo	KOR	4
199	Timofei Skatov	KAZ	5
212	Tseng Chun-Hsin	TPE	6
248	Sumit Nagal	IND	7
249	Hayato Matsuoka	JPN	8
288	Sergey Fomin	UZB	9
296	Hsu Yu-Hsiou	TPE	10
359	Dhakshineswar Suresh	IND	11
382	Kasidit Samrej	THA	12
400	Yosuke Watanuki	JPN	13
437	Khumoyun Sultanov	UZB	14
480	Maximus Jones	THA	15
541	Rifqi Fitriadi	INA	16

Hong Kong came close to medalling in both men’s singles and women’s doubles four years ago at the Hangzhou Games.

In men’s singles, teenager Wong shocked third-seeded world No. 98 Wu Yibing in the last sixteen 6-4 3-6 7-6(6) after being down 6-1 in the third set tiebreak. Then, in the quarterfinal against eighth-seeded world No. 159 Hong Seongchan, Wong was up a set and a break, but the Korean found another gear and played lights out to mow down the Hong Kong representative 4-6 6-4 6-3 leaving him one victory shy of a medal.

In women’s doubles, Eudice Chong/Cody Wong, seeded 5th, beat Rutuja Bhosale/Karman Thandi (IND) 6-4 6-1 in the second round but Chinese Taipei’s 2nd-seeded Latisha Chan/Chan Hao-Ching managed to save 8 of 9 break points that day in the quarters and the Hong Kong pair lost 6-3 6-4, which left them also one win shy of a medal.

Four years ago, Wong was ranked No. 458 in the world and seeded 14th. This time around, Wong has improved his ranking by 350 spots, and he is the 2026 Asian Games top seed.

Earlier this April, he defeated China’s Bu Yunchaokete en route to becoming the first player from Hong Kong to capture an ATP Challenger title in Jiujiang. In August, he beat world No. 12 Jiri Lehecka of Czechia and No. 77 Jenson Brooksby en route to the semifinals of an ATP 250 event in Los Cabos. In doing so, he became the first player from Hong Kong to break into the world’s top 100. He achieved a career-high No. 92 on 3 August 2026.

Aleksandr Shevchenko, the No. 2 seed, is coached by Ernests Gulbis, a former top-10 player. This season, the Kazakh has reached the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 event in Adelaide and the semifinals at the ATP 250 event in Gstaad. He also defeated world No. 9 Ben Shelton to reach the third round of the Miami Open.

Shevchenko reached the top 100 in April 2023 and then cracked the top 50 after reaching the ATP 250 Metz final at the end of the year. He then reached a career-high No. 45 on 19 February 2024 and maintained a top-100 ranking for the rest of the year. He dropped out of the top 100 briefly in February 2025 and has been teetering in and out of the top-100 mark since.

Wu Yibing, seeded third here at Aichi-Nagoya, was a silver medallist in singles at the Asian Games in 2018, when he finished runner-up to Denis Istomin as a teenager. Since he had already captured the singles title at the 2025 National Games, he now has the opportunity to duplicate countryman Pan Bing’s unique feat of simultaneously holding the gold medals of both the National Games and the Asian Games.

However, he has had a somewhat quiet 2026 in which he reached the second round of the ATP 250 Bank of China Hong Kong Tennis Open, where he lost to Rublev; the second round of the Australian Open and Roland Garros; first round at Wimbledon, where he lost to Djokovic; and the third round of the US Open, where Alcaraz beat him in straight sets. He did win the Sarasota Challenger 75 in April and reached the quarterfinals of the ATP 500 event in Acapulco in February.

Fourth seed Kwon Soonwoo ended last year ranked No. 486 but captured three Challengers in 2026 and has rebounded to a current ranking of No. 158. He peaked at No. 52 back on 1 November 2021 after winning his maiden ATP Tour title at Astana. He played an instrumental part in Korea’s victory over India last weekend in the Davis Cup when he beat both Sumit Nagal and Dhakshineswar Suresh.

Meanwhile, Eudice Chong and Cody Wong were ranked No. 157 and No. 256 respectively in women’s doubles four years ago. This time around, the HK reps are ranked No. 58 and No. 149 respectively.

Earlier this year, Chong became the first player from Hong Kong to capture a WTA Tour doubles title when she partnered Poland’s Magali Kempen to beat top seed Aldila Sutjiadi/Vera Zvonareva 6-3 2-6 [10-6] to lift the WTA 250 Morocco Open.

At the French Open, Chong made further history when she partnered Slovenia’s Veronika Erjavec to beat No. 12 seed Storm Hunter/Caty McNally (USA) 6-2 1-6 6-3 to become the first player from Hong Kong to reach the third round in Paris. She also reached the second round at Wimbledon and the US Open, the semifinals of the WTA 250 Athens Open, WTA 250 Korea Open, and the WTA 125 Philly Open. Chong reached a career-high No. 57 on 29 June 2026.

Cody Wong captured three World Tennis Tour women’s doubles titles this year, including the W100 Tokyo, and reached a career-high No. 145 on 14 September 2026. In singles, she also reached the W15 Singapore final.

At the 15th National Games, Chong/Wong beat Wang Qiang and Zheng Saisai to reach the quarterfinals before the top-seeded pair of Tang Qianhui and Guo Hanyu from Sichuan upended them, leaving the Hong Kong representatives a win shy of a medal.

At the WTA 250 Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open 2025, the duo combined to oust top-seeded Eri Hozumi/Wu Fang-Hsien 4-6 6-3 [10-5] in the first round before falling to eventual champions Jiang Xinyu/Wang Yafan in two close sets in the quarterfinals.

That said, Chong/Wong face a formidable field comprising several of the world’s leading doubles players, including world No. 6 Anna Danilina of Kazakhstan, No. 7 Zhang Zhuai of China, and No. 10 Hsieh Su-Wei of Chinese Taipei.

The women’s doubles seeds are as follows:

1. Zhang Shuai/Guo Hanyu (CHN)
2. Hsieh Su-Wei/Liang En-Shuo (TPE)
3. Jiang Xinyu/Yang Zhaoxuan (CHN)
4. Shuko Aoyama/Ena Shibahara (JPN)
5. Chan Hao-Ching/Wu Fang-Hsien (TPE)
6. Eudice Chong/Cody Wong (HKG)
7. Momoko Kobori/Ayano Shimizu (JPN)
8. Rutuja Bhosale/Ankita Raina (IND)

In women’s singles, Adithya Karunaratne, ranked No. 519, captured a pair of W15 titles this year at Kursumlijska Banja and Monastir. She also beat Hannah Klugman to reach the W35 Aldershot final and overcame former world No. 29 Urszula Radwanska to qualify for the W50 Leiria.

Yandy Shek, currently ranked No. 642, reached her third career World Tennis Tour women’s singles final at the W15 Luan earlier this season and peaked at No. 610 on 10 August 2026. She went undefeated in singles at this year’s Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Group II event to help propel Hong Kong to Group I in 2027.

Vienna Lai, currently ranked No. 1302 in doubles, went 3-1 partnering Yandy Shek during this year’s Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Group II qualifying to help Hong Kong gain promotion to Group I. She also reached her first World Tennis Tour women’s doubles final at the M15 Monastir this February.

In addition, Kai Thompson reached the boys’ singles quarterfinals earlier this year at the Australian Open and reached a career-high No. 25 in the junior world rankings. He also became only the second player from Hong Kong to reach the third round of the boys’ singles at the US Open. In addition, Nicholas Cheng at No. 59, Jack Cheng at No. 87 and Tam Sin Hang at No. 169 all attained their career-high rankings this year as well.

HKCTA President Michael Cheng remarked, “These big quadrennial games are always extremely challenging because the stakes and expectations are so high. The pressure to win a medal for oneself, for one’s family, and for one’s country is immense. Athletes who are used to playing for themselves on tour must now handle the weight of national expectation.”

“It will come down to preparation, team support, and matchday performance. The ones who can keep a cool head and execute when it matters most will seize the day,” he added.

The current Team HK player with the most experience at the Asian Games is Eudice Chong, who played in Incheon 2014, Jakarta 2018 and Hangzhou 2022. She is set to become the first player to represent Hong Kong four times at the Asian Games, bettering the previous record of three shared by Tsui Yuen Yuen (1958, 1962, 1966), Wayne Wong (1998, 2002, 2006), Yu Hiu Tung (2002, 2006, 2010), Venise Chan (2006, 2010, 2014) and Zhang Ling (2010, 2014, 2018).

“It’s an honour every time you put on the Hong Kong colours, and it doesn’t get smaller the fourth time. It gets bigger because now I understand what it takes. We have a squad that’s earned its place through results, not reputation. My role is to bring calm when the pressure comes, because it will come,” said Chong.

Coach in charge, Yoann Lemee: “It is a great honour to be the Team Coach of Hong Kong at my first Asian Games. We have a young and ambitious team, and the progress we have made this season is very encouraging, with career-high rankings and Hong Kong players reaching Grand Slam maindraws across different categories. We know the level of competition will be extremely high, but we are united, motivated, and ready to embrace the challenge.”

Hong Kong at the Asian Games

Being the only tennis representative from Hong Kong at the 4th Asian Games in Jakarta in 1962, Tsui Yuen Yuen took the suggestion of John Hopman, brother of Harry Hopman, and teamed up with the national champion of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, Ranjani Jayasuriya, for the women’s doubles.

The duo ended up winning the semifinals against Philippines’ Desideria Ampon and Patricia Yngayo, who won a silver at the 1958 Games, before finishing runners-up to Japan’s Akiko Fukui and Reiko Miyagi. Fukui also won the women’s singles and mixed doubles, and with Japan winning the women’s team event as well, she went home with four golds that year.

According to Tsui, competitive opportunities for locals were few and far between back then. “There were only a couple of tournaments in Hong Kong each year, the National Hardcourts at the Ladies’ Recreation Club and the National Grasscourts at the Hong Kong Cricket Club. In terms of overseas competition, once every four years at the Asian Games, and that was basically it,” she said.

“But one of the biggest differences between now and then in women’s tennis is the aggressiveness off both wings, especially the backhand. We played with a single-handed backhand slice and it was used mostly to manoeuvre your opponents or to set up the points rather than hitting winners off it. With the double-hander, girls can just step in and really hit into it, and you just can’t do that with a single-handed backhand slice,” she added.

The tennis events will take place from 27 September-3 October at the Nagoya City Higashiyama Park Tennis Center.