How it was won
Lin Yun-Ju and Zhu Yuling won the first WTT Champions event of the year in Doha, in a week without Wang Chuqin or Sun Yingsha. Lin, outside the top eight seeds, beat South Korea's Jang Woojin 4-0 in the final, 11-7, 11-9, 11-9, 13-11.
His route was the harder part. Lin beat Sora Matsushima 4-0 in the quarter-finals and then came from two games down to beat Tomokazu Harimoto 4-3 in the semi-finals. Jang, also unseeded, knocked out Truls Moregard and then the top seed, Lin Shidong, 4-2. The biggest shock came in the first round, where Dimitrij Ovtcharov beat the second seed, Hugo Calderano, 3-2.
Zhu, the sixth seed, won the women's title for Macao by beating Chen Xingtong 4-2, taking the sixth game 13-11. She beat Wang Yidi in the quarter-finals and Germany's Han Ying in the semi-finals. Han had knocked out the top seed, Wang Manyu, 4-3 a round earlier.
Zhu stayed in Doha and won the Star Contender event the following week.