Home hope Wong wins again in Hong Kong, faces Musetti in QFs
Coleman Wong continued his history-making run at the Bank of China Hong Kong Tennis Open on Wednesday, when he battled past Gabriel Diallo to secure his quarter-final spot.
The day after he overcame Mariano Navone to become the first man representing Hong Kong to win a main-draw match in tournament history, the 21-year-old Wong prevailed 1-6, 7-5, 7-5 against Diallo to reach the last eight. The No. 150 in the PIF ATP Rankings, wild card Wong saved 11 of 15 break points he earned, according to Infosys ATP Stats, en route to a two-hour, 29-minute triumph.
“It sounds unreal,” said Wong, when reflecting on becoming the first ATP Tour quarter-finalist from Hong Kong in the Open Era. “So many people came to support me today. Gabriel is such a great player. We pushed each other to the limit and in the end, I was 5-2 but he came back to 5-5. I was like, ‘Wow, I don’t know if I can close this out’. I just kept believing in myself, kept believing in what I’ve been working on these past years.
“It’s not easy to be an athlete from Hong Kong and coming from such a small place. Being in the quarter-finals of an ATP event, I just want to keep going.”
Standing in Wong’s way for a semi-final spot at the ATP 250 will be top seed Lorenzo Musetti. The Italian rallied past Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-7(3), 6-2, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals in Hong Kong for the second consecutive year.
Musetti now leads Etcheverry 3-0 in the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series. The 23-year-old, who finished 2025 with a debut appearance at the Nitto ATP Finals, has risen one spot above Felix Auger-Aliassime to No. 6 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings after winning his Hong Kong opener.
Nuno Borges was also a second-round winner in Hong Kong on Wednesday. The Portuguese downed former World No. 3 Marin Cilic 7-5, 6-3 to set a quarter-final meeting with 2024 champion and third seed Andrey Rublev, who began his 2026 season by sinking Wu Yibing 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the final match of the day.
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