Huang Zelin won the men's singles tennis gold medal at the Nagoya Asian Games, making history in Hong Kong, China

China News Service, Nagoya, Japan, October 3 (Reporter Jin Xu) The men's singles final of the tennis event was held at the Aichi Nagoya Asian Games on the 3rd local time. Hong Kong player Huang Zelin of China defeated China's Wu Yibing 2:0 and won the gold medal. Huang Zelin thus qualified for the Los Angeles Olympics. This was also the first Asian Games tennis gold medal for the Hong Kong team in the history of China.

In recent years, Huang Zelin has continuously set new tennis records in Hong Kong, China. At the 2025 US Open, he broke into the top 32 men's singles for the first time; in 2026, he ranked among the top 100 in the world for the first time.

Wu Yibing and Huang Zelin are already old rivals on the court. The two met for the first time in the third round of men's singles at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games. At that time, Wu Yibing missed 5 match points in the "tie-break" of the final set and eventually lost to Huang Zelin and missed the quarterfinals. At the Hangzhou Open in September 2024, Wu Yibing played against Huang Zelin again, but he retired due to injury after losing the first set. In the men's singles tennis semifinals of the 2025 National Games, Wu Yibing reversed Huang Zelin 2:1 and won.

The two met again at the Asian Games. Wu Yibing was broken in the fifth game of the first set of the final that day, and was broken again in the seventh game, losing 2:6. After the two players reached 4:4 in the second set, the ninth game fell into a long tug-of-war. In the end, Huang Zelin took the lead in breaking serve and successfully won his own serve.

Huang Zelin said after the game that he enjoyed playing against Wu Yibing in the final and hoped to bring more exciting performances to everyone in the future. Wu Yibing said that Huang Zelin is a respectable player and he has no regrets in this Asian Games. "I have tried my best and hope to have another chance to participate in the next Asian Games."

After winning the Asian Games gold medal, Huang Zelin also qualified for the Los Angeles Olympics. "It's still a long time before the Olympics. I will continue to improve myself and see how far I can go in the Olympics," he said.