Duc Tuan won the SEA Games men’s singles gold medal after 19 years

We have had impressive men’s singles gold medals in Vietnam. That was in 2001, the tennis player Vu Manh Cuong won the SEA Games 21 and in 2003, the tennis player Tran Tuan Quynh won the SEA Games 22. Since then, not a single male player of Vietnamese table tennis has come up. throne at the SEA Games.

However, at the 31st SEA Games held at home, Vietnamese table tennis was mentioned again with an impressive and convincing gold medal in men’s singles by Nguyen Duc Tuan.

Duc Tuan won convincingly 11-7, 11-9 in the first 2 sets, before losing 8-11 in the 3rd set. In the 4th and 5th sets, Nguyen Duc Tuan played ecstatically and won with The score was 4-1, thereby winning the only gold medal for Vietnam’s table tennis at the 31st SEA Games.

Phakpoom Sanguansin – Duc Tuan’s Thai opponent in the final is not a stranger. He is the one who lost to Tran Tuan Quynh in the men’s singles table tennis final 19 years ago. And on his return to Vietnam, Sanguansin once again suffered defeat.

With this feat, Nguyen Duc Tuan helped Vietnam’s table tennis win back the men’s singles gold medal after 19 years of waiting.

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