Hana Card Wins PBA Team League 1R for 7 consecutive wins...Early confirmation of PS advancement.

Jul 30, 2025

Hana Card Wins PBA Team League 1R for 7 consecutive wins...Early confirmation of PS advancement.
Hana Card leader Kim Byung-ho (left) is lifting the first round trophy. On the right is PBA Vice President Jang Sang-jin. Photo courtesy of PBA



Hana Card has started to win the PBA team league postseason for the first time in two years. He was the first to qualify for the postseason by winning the first round of the team league in the 2025-2026 season.

Hana Card added a victory on the 30th by defeating Huons by a set score of 4-2 in the final day match of the first round of the 'Welcome Savings Bank PBA Team League 2025-2026' held at Goyang Kintex PBA Stadium' in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. As a result, Hana Card ended the first round with 7 wins and 2 losses (20 points) after continuing its seven-game winning streak after the opening two consecutive losses.

With this first-round victory, Hana Card confirmed its advance to the postseason early in the 2025-2026 season. In the PBA team league, five regular round winners will be in the postseason. Starting with the electric league championship cup right after the foundation of the 2022-2023 season, Hana Card will win the fifth round and the postseason in the 2023-2024 season, followed by the first round this season. In particular, he aims to win the postseason twice following the 2023-2024 season.




Hana Card, which started the first round nervously after falling into a quagmire for two consecutive losses early in the opening period, swept all games until the final day after beating High1 Resort 4-1 in the third day.

Hana Card, which was able to win on its own with just two points secured against Huons on the final day, shook off Huons' resistance and won.

In the first set, Murat Najee Choclu (Turkiye) and Nguyen Quoc Nguyen (Vietnam) lost to Lee Sang-dae and Choi Sung-won group 10-11 (7 innings). In the second set (women's doubles), Kim Ga-young and Ayako Sakai of Japan beat Lee Shin-young and Kim Se-yeon 9-5 (7 innings), but again in the third set (men's singles), leader Kim Byung-ho lost to Choi Sung-won 13-15 (9 innings).




Trailing 1-2 in the set score, Hana Card turned the tide with a victory in the fourth set (mixed doubles). Cho Klu and Sakai combined for five high runs in the fifth inning of the fourth set against Lee Sang-dae and Kim Se-yeon, turning the tide 7-5, and adding two runs in the sixth inning to win 9-7.

Hana Card Wins PBA Team League 1R for 7 consecutive wins...Early confirmation of PS advancement.
Hana Card Kim Ga-young succeeds in winning the first round of the PBA team league and raises the cue. Photo courtesy =PBA
Shin Jung-joo, who played in the fifth set (men's singles), then took the lead by beating Robinson Morales (Colombia) by 11 to 4 (5 innings), and in the sixth set (women's doubles), Kim Ga-young overwhelmed Cha Yu-ram by 9 to 7 (8 innings) to complete the team's set score 4-2.

The MVP of the first round (prize 1 million won) went to Kim Ga-young. In the first round alone, Kim Ga-young recorded 13 wins and 2 losses (5 wins and 1 loss in singles, 8 wins and 1 loss in doubles), leading the team to win with a whopping 86.7% (Abidge 1.065). Kim Ga-young won her third team league MVP after the first round of the 2020-2021 season and the fifth round of the 2023-2024 season. With this award, Kim Ga-young was also listed as the most MVP winner of all time along with Eddie Leffens (SK Rent-A-Car in Belgium).




Meanwhile, PBA will begin its third tour of the PBA-LPBA season, the NH Nonghyup Card PBA-LPBA Charity Championship, at the 'Koyang KINTEX PBA Stadium" from August 3rd.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.