Tireless in Helping: Quang Duong Auctions PPA Tour Gold Medal for Vietnam Flood Victims

The massive flooding in the Central Vietnam region has caused unprecedented damage and even loss of life, with 47 deaths already reported by the Vietnam Disaster and Dyke Management Authority. Worse, Typhoon Kalmaegi is bearing down on Vietnam, and it could complicate an already dire situation in that part of the country. In other words, Central Vietnam needs all the help it can get, and Duong is most certainly doing his part.

The Avatar Ball Bender first put up the medal for auction on 29 October 2025, posting about it on Facebook while enjoining his followers and the public to “open your arms to help your fellow citizens in the Central Region.”

The medal is the Men’s Doubles gold that Quang Duong—with partner and recent Southeast Asia conqueror Christian Alshon—won at the Bristol Open in October 2024. That golden conquest is also notable because Duong and Alshon beat the impressive pair of Ben Johns and Collin Johns in a spectacular display of shot-making.

A few days later, e-commerce and logistics service firm Pressify Inc. opened its arms—and its chequebook—after submitting the winning bid of VND 250 million (equivalent to about USD $9,500).

In total, the donation drive, according to Quang Duong himself in a separate Facebook post, raised 838,290,000 VND (around USD $32,000) for the flood victims in Central Vietnam. According to him, the proceeds were directly handed over to the Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam in Hue City, Quang Ngai Province, and Da Nang.

Duong, incidentally, also took part in the “Glow Pickleball Charity Night” of the VTV AO Smith Pickleball Open 2025, a charity event for the “Heart for Children” Fund of Vietnam Television. There, the young man auctioned one of his PPA Tour-used paddles, and it fetched a whopping 56 million VND from the winner, Miss Universe Vietnam 2024 second runner-up Vu Thuy Quynh.