How it was won
Sora Matsushima won the United States Smash, held at the Ontario Convention Center outside Los Angeles, and Sun Yingsha won the women's event.
The men's top two seeds went out in the last 16. Denmark's Anders Lind beat Wang Chuqin 3-1, and Vladimir Sidorenko, a neutral athlete, beat Tomokazu Harimoto 3-0. Sidorenko then beat the third seed, Truls Moregard, 4-3 in the semi-finals. Matsushima, the sixth seed, beat Félix Lebrun 4-1 and then Sidorenko 4-2 in the final.
Sun beat Kuai Man 4-3 in the women's final, winning the seventh game 11-4 after Kuai had come back from 3-1 down. The second seed, Wang Manyu, lost 3-0 to Japan's Hitomi Sato in the first round, and Kuai beat Miwa Harimoto 4-3 in the semi-finals.
Wang Manyu and Kuai won the women's doubles, Wen Ruibo and Yuan Licen beat the top seeds, Lin Shidong and Huang Youzheng, 3-2 in the men's, and Lim Jonghoon and Shin Yubin beat Wang Chuqin and Sun 3-2 in the mixed.