Truong/Truong vs McGuffin/Wang - Mixed Doubles Final | MB Vietnam Cup 2025

And, uh, LJ come out swinging. Oh, I know that coming out swing against this very, very formidable pair of Zoe Wang and, uh, Tyson McGuffin. And for the last time, borrowing, uh, Mr. Simon Nguyen's. Oh, no, no, no. He's here. Oh, let's go. Let's go. For the last time of season one PBA tour, wait for it. Wait for it. Let's ball try to reach for it. He'll high over, uh, her, her left shoulder there. Yep. She couldn't quite get that, but no worries. Speed up. That causes the error from, uh, LJ. Trump. Ooh, yeah. Okay. I don't think you're going to be torn partner. No, no, no. It's definitely behind the trunks, but not only that, I feel like whenever the trunks win points, it's always in such an emphatic fashion just to borrow the word that you guys have been throwing around. Zero one. Are you kidding me? I cannot believe that that lob that Jonathan threw up even landed in insane. They, we only see the final shot of that rally, but the lob, the first lob from Tyson was crazy. But to get back to neutral as well. Insane. One, two. Oh, Jonathan. Yeah. So good. Picking that spot for Zoe. Uh, and oh, perfect. Pickleball court geometry right there. Alex strong knew exactly where to hold her paddle for the put away. Right on her left shoulder there. Alex strong. Check this one out. That is incredible. And to find a sweet spot, even from that position, it's great shot making. And you said it partner, the way the trunks get their points. It's dramatic. Yeah. Always, always dramatic. Neil John always has the paddle up and really quick on the draw as well. Yeah. He is just keeping that middle locked and loaded. Uh, he knows that that's where Zoe's going to want to go. It's the counter. Up in there. Alex is out of her mind. Even Alex can't believe it. What a shot. Yep. I think just a little bit of a, a little bit of a little bit of confusion on Tyson and Zoe side, whether they unwind the stack or unpredictable. That shot from, uh, Jonathan strong. He, he, he holds it off right at the final moment before making a swing at it. So the strong start for the trunks five, one up here. Zoe and Tyson have a call timeout. 15 seconds remaining timeout receiver zero servers. One time in five, one, two. What a point to come back to after a timeout pulled by Wang and McGoffin here. Jonathan strong. Just missed that Ernie from, uh, LJ. Yeah, that was like smart. Leave that by Zoe and Tyson. Someone called it out. I think Zoe wasn't sure. I think she was questioning if it was, uh, okay, but it's been ruled it in. Oh, referee, uh, Steve has to go score first. Right. The trunks are here with a very healthy lead, uh, over McGoffin and Wang. But I know that that doesn't mean anything. They are keeping their foot on the pedal. Yeah, but incredible get first from, uh, Tyson McGoffin there on the retrieval off the law. Oh yes. He ran the whole distance of the court to get that law and barely got over that lob as well. No, the crowd was already in it, but they wanted to out call more than more than the trunk siblings, eight one, one. That's the second net core that has led to a point here. Yeah. Little lucky net caught there for the trunks. Well, you need a little bit of luck as well. At this stage, as you see here in that net court, Rick is using a Zoe. Tyson and, uh, so we need to make their move here. We've seen some, uh, we've seen our, our fair share of comebacks here in the Vietnam cup. So we'll see. Oh, that's very true. Ooh, yeah. Game point though. The tiger taking full command of the middle and that will, yeah. Take us to game points. Oh, absolutely. Stud partner. These are two X experience and really quality players on the other side. And, and Alex and, and LJ strong just took care of business against these two PPA tour stars right here. And I just got back from a little break in what happened that the trunks took it in front and one game already. What, what? Yeah, it just took them a little over five, less than 10 minutes. Wow. Just watching LJ really grow into his own. Like I'm sure you guys have talked about him first arriving in Ho Chi Minh city and now just turning from a boy to a man, um, his spirit animal. He said as a kitty, but maybe he's now a kitten. No, no, I don't think so. Well, too big of a leap to too big. Yeah, too big. But, but I, I think, I think he has really, this energy from Alex's really rubbed off on LJ because it was, it was Alex who was winning the bigger points for them in the start of the game. And then LJ just took over the latter part of game. Number one, LJ with the hands too. Absolutely. Oh my goodness. All right. Well, I'm going to go take another break while you guys hold it down. Uh, it's your boy, Simon Yen. Uh, it's been a pleasure here to chat with everybody here at the PPA tour Asia. It's been an amazing experience and one that I shot, I shot forget anytime soon. See you. See you soon. No, I don't know. I guess I'm, I'm out and Phoebe wants the microphone back. So let's give it back to Phoebe. No, no. Everybody make some noise for Phoebe toe. Let's go. Tyson and Zoe and Simon Yen is around. Yeah. All right. You'll never know. You'll never know what you're going to get when Simon Yen's around. Yep. Like a box of chocolates. Okay, here we go. Game two, uh, Zoe and Tyson really got to focus in here. The pulse of life is crazy. That's the championship point. This is the beginning of game two people. The trunks with the sky logs, Tyson and Zoe, just not being able to put it away. What did I see? I'm trying to leave, but I can't let's go. Trunks. Oh my gosh. Clip that clip that please. I'm stunned. I am absolutely stunned. I don't know what to say. Is there a one, if you can believe it. It's got to be, that breaks you. Those points, those types of points break it. They, they are like, of course, momentum swinging points, but that, that was, that, that was insane. I still can't get over it. Miss. Justin is on fire right now. Ah, Tyson, Tyson and Zoe battling hard here. Um, but you have to feel like all the momentum right now is on the Tron side. Just can't miss. Tyson trying to restore order here. Yeah. Trying to get some, something to control back into the game. Um, Tyson and Zoe, you can never count them out. They have a lot to play for here. What a reach on the right. Just such a beautiful ball there from Alex. That really is the Alex Tron special taking that ball out of the air and taking it down behind the back of the left side player. LJ can't miss Jonathan Tron can't miss right now. You want to speed up? You want to hands battle with him? Yeah. His paddle is always there ready. Okay. A little body bag there from Tyson. But I think, I think that's, I think that's good for them. I think, you know, they need to kind of shift the momentum of this game right now. Uh, kind of get on the board, uh, and start building up, building up their points here. Tyson McGuffin, he is back. Tyson's fiery. Jonathan did leave that dink a little high there that allowed Tyson to hit it. And Zoe and, and, and Tyson really need to clean up these errors. If they want to come back in this match, because that those errors made that game one win, uh, look a little easy for, uh, the trunks. Yep. I agree. All right, here we go. Right down the middle from Jonathan Tron right here. That's a riddle that has, uh, that the few players have, uh, uh, you know, not a lot of players have solved here in, uh, PPH or Asia. 5-2 now after that flick from Tyson going to the net. Oh, nice, nice ball, Jonathan. Oh, okay. All right. Alex throwing up that lob, but I think, I think maybe Tyson and Zoe have cottoned on to the fact that they do like to throw that in their game. Every once in a while, maybe not hugging the kitchen line as tightly. So they're ready to, uh, take it out of the air or head back to retrieve it. That was a good side out for Tyson and Zoe. 2-5-1 I have to say, you know, what I really love about Alex's putaways is that she's not necessarily hitting them flat down so that they bounce higher and easier for them to retrieve, easier for Tyson and Zoe to retrieve. It's that she's hitting really through the ball, making it deep and shallow by the time Zoe has to retrieve it. Um, making that a very hard put away to defend. Quick side out as well for the Trunks. Yeah. Holding, holding fast to a three point lead here. That's a nice ball. That's a really lovely ball there from Zoe. Yeah. But I think Alex also caught that one a little high here. And that's a put away for, for Zoe. 5-2-2 That's a good leave. Good leave. That's a good leave. Look at this. Receiver timeout, 6-2-2, one minute. Right down the middle. You get tempted as well because it's a little high. Yeah. At first I thought that that was going to be an in ball, but it ended up being quite out, so, uh, really good, good leave there by the Trunks, but I guess that's what makes them pros and me, um, a commentator. Timeout called here by Tyson McGuffin and Zoe Wang. Look at the sequence right here. Well, before that smash from, uh, Tyson, there, there were like five or six of that, more probably, let's say seven or eight. I, I didn't really catch everything because we were, we were so, we were following the ball all the time and we can't, we can't keep counting. Just totally entranced with that point. Um, that has to be one of the craziest pickable points that I have witnessed. I think here on tour, it, it has to rank up there. That, that point last week with Eric Onsens in the, in the tweener against Ben Johns and, uh, Christian Alshon, that to me probably was number one. I think we, we, we have a, we have a new number one now. Yeah, for sure. Maybe some, you know, some of our followers on Instagram can debate on that. Which one was the better point? Time in 6-2-2. I love how smart Tyson is with the high balls. Um, he really kind of attacks Alex's left hip. She kind of ends up having to get into this weird position to defend it, which leads to a pop-up. I think he's being so smart about where he's placing that. Okay. I know it's only one point here, but it feels like the trunks are coming up against some resistance. Tyson and Zoe very much not going to let this go lightly. Just really incredible response from Alex here. And that one was a little high from Zoe. And Alex always ready to pounce. The service error has led to a side out 6-3 for the trunks, 6-3 on one. What a move from Jonathan, uh, just getting that Ernie and Zoe doing so well to defend it. But Alex is so accustomed to sliding. Oh, she slid right over to take that double handed backhand. That was incredible. Just barely avoiding a foot fault. Not much. Is it a foot fault? Was that a foot fault? Is it? Oh my. Yeah. Referee long. I think it was. Yeah. Toe was on the kitchen line. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, so unlucky there for Tyson. Uh, that point was definitely, definitely theirs. Okay. All right. That ball from Tyson was out. Okay. I think, uh, this is, look, this is Tyson McGuffin. Honestly, one of the things that I truly admire about him in his game. He is such a promoter of pickable in the sport, but overall just such a fair person. I think there was maybe a little bit of not a very firm out call there from the trongs, but enough to stop play. And Tyson, I think could have absolutely debated that point, but I could see him there just being like, just take it. It's okay. Um, the ball was probably out. Very admirable from Tyson McGuffin. One of the OGs of pickable. I have to say, Alex Trong is just so fun to watch while on the court. So the audience will have to pardon me and my little giggles every now and then. Three, nine, one, four, nine, one. Ooh. Okay. Great ball there from Zoe. A little bit of a wild swing from Alex there. Um, so Tyson and Zoe. They will not go quietly into the night. Left side was wide open. Yeah. I think Tyson really wanted to kind of interject and get in on that cross-court dink battle. He was really poaching, looking for that ball to take out of the air and he took the right one, but unfortunately it came right back into open court. Yeah. Give credit to Alex there. Some nerves here. Yeah. Maybe a couple of, a couple of errors from Alex here. And also fatigue because they, they just played an hour ago for in a women's doubles talk about fatigue. Tyson just played a 15 minutes ago in men's doubles side out crowd egging on the trunks here to close this one out. The crowd in a rush to go home. No, this crowd here is electric. They want to see their trunks win. I was going to get, I was going to say Alex strong. It's the best sitting point. And I went just practicing your overheads. Oh yeah. It's coming right back every time. To be honest, out of all the players we've seen on the PPA tour Asia, nobody's thrown up Skylobs quite like Alex strong. I think she really uses it in a way. It's like almost like an offense, like, um, pardon me, not offensive, but on an offense kind of way, it puts so much pressure, I think on the other side to hit a perfect put away, to keep it within the court and also buys her and her partner time, uh, on the defense side, second serve. Will we, uh, see another one, uh, of those, uh, comebacks led by, uh, Tyson McGuffin. 692 here, but that returned from Alex and that, uh, allow little J to, uh, bounce on that right in front. Zoe sends the ball out. Reached championship point for Alex and Jonathan true. Okay. Big, big breaths here from Alex. This is championship points staying alive here. Tyson McGuffin and Zoe Wang. What a counter here from Tyson. Alex could not get to that first time hitting that it went wide. So chance to hear the championship point for Alex and Jonathan championship point. Number two, Alex and Jonathan. Proud Vietnamese Americans done it here at home in Danang. It's a special night for the trunks. They are your mixed doubles champions here in the PPA tour Asia MV Vietnam cup. What an amazing show from the trunks siblings taking down Tyson McGuffin and Zoe Wang, Alex Truong and Jonathan Truong, your MV Vietnam cup champions, what a moment. For these two.