Four Germans play for semi-final places at WTT Champions Frankfurt on Saturday, when Sabine Winter meets Chen Yi and the world No 1, Sora Matsushima, faces Patrick Franziska in the evening session.

All eight quarter-finals are on the one table at the Süwag Energie Arena, four from midday UK time and four from 5.30pm, and from this round matches are the best of seven games. Hina Hayata, last year's women's champion, opens the day against Kuai Man, and Miwa Harimoto meets Chen Xingtong in a rematch of the Yokohama final.

The big matches

Chen Xingtong v Miwa Harimoto (1.30pm UK). Harimoto, 18, the second seed and world No 3, beat Chen 4-2 in the WTT Champions Yokohama final in August and 4-1 in the Macao semi-finals in September. Chen won their quarter-final in Doha in January 17-15 in the seventh game. The 29-year-old, ranked seventh, has dropped 26 points in six games in Frankfurt; Harimoto lost the first game in both her matches.

Dang Qiu v Tomokazu Harimoto (2.15pm UK). Qiu, 30 and the world No 11, lost last year's final here to Matsushima. He beat Harimoto 4-2 in the WTT Star Contender London final in October 2025, and Harimoto won their World Cup meeting in Macao in April 11-6 in the seventh. Harimoto, 23, the second seed and world No 3, has dropped one game in two matches since losing to Simon Gauzy in Montpellier.

Sabine Winter v Chen Yi (7pm UK). Winter, 34 and the world No 13, beat Han Ying in 17 minutes on Friday and is the only German woman left. She plays with an anti-spin rubber, a rare style at this level. Chen, 22, the Asian champion and eighth seed, beat her in their only meeting, a Europe Smash Sweden quarter-final in 2025, 4-1, but needed five games and an 11-2 decider to beat Margaryta Pesotska on Friday night.

Sora Matsushima v Patrick Franziska (7.45pm UK). Matsushima, 19, the top seed and defending champion, has beaten Franziska twice, both times 3-1, at China Smash and in the last 16 of WTT Champions Montpellier last year. Franziska, 34 and ranked 15th, played 51 minutes to beat Benedikt Duda 12-10 in the fifth on Friday. A week ago he led Jang Woojin 3-1 in the Montpellier final and lost.

Verdonschot gets his wish

Wim Verdonschot, the 21-year-old wildcard ranked 40th, said after knocking out Hugo Calderano that he wanted Shunsuke Togami next because he had never played or trained with him. They meet at 6.15pm. Togami, 25, the 12th seed and world No 16, has gone to five games against South Korea's Oh Junsung and saved game points in two games against Kanak Jha.

Qiu, Franziska and Verdonschot are in three of the four men's quarter-finals, and Verdonschot and Franziska are in the same half: if both win, they meet in Sunday's semi-final.

Wen Ruibo, China's last man

Wen Ruibo, 19 and ranked 14th, is the only Chinese man left after Zhou Qihao lost to Lin Yun-Ju on Friday. He has not dropped a game in Frankfurt, beating An Jaehyun and Wang Chuqin in straight games. Lin, 25, the fifth seed and world No 6, beat Wen 4-1 in the last 16 of the World Cup in Macao in April, their only completed match. They play at 12.45pm.

Hayata, 26 and the world No 6, beat Miwa Harimoto 4-3 in last year's final but has lost four of her five matches against Kuai since December, including quarter-finals at WTT Champions Yokohama and Europe Smash Sweden this year. Kuai, 22 and the world No 4, lost the Montpellier final to Sun Yingsha on Sunday and has dropped 24 points in six games in Frankfurt.

Goda against Odo

Egypt's Hana Goda, 18, has needed five games in both her matches. She plays Japan's Satsuki Odo, 22 and the world No 11, at 5.30pm. Odo has won both their meetings, at WTT Champions Incheon in 2025 and in a WTT Contender Skopje quarter-final in June, and the winner meets Winter or Chen Yi in the semi-finals.

Order of play

All times UK (GMT) and approximate: matches follow one another on a single table and may start later if earlier ones run long.

  • Midday: Hina Hayata (JPN) v Kuai Man (CHN), women's singles, quarter-final
  • 12.45pm: Lin Yun-Ju (TPE) v Wen Ruibo (CHN), men's singles, quarter-final
  • 1.30pm: Chen Xingtong (CHN) v Miwa Harimoto (JPN), women's singles, quarter-final
  • 2.15pm: Dang Qiu (GER) v Tomokazu Harimoto (JPN), men's singles, quarter-final
  • 5.30pm: Hana Goda (EGY) v Satsuki Odo (JPN), women's singles, quarter-final
  • 6.15pm: Shunsuke Togami (JPN) v Wim Verdonschot (GER), men's singles, quarter-final
  • 7pm: Sabine Winter (GER) v Chen Yi (CHN), women's singles, quarter-final
  • 7.45pm: Sora Matsushima (JPN) v Patrick Franziska (GER), men's singles, quarter-final

How to watch

Both sessions are streamed live on World Table Tennis's YouTube channel, and the stream is on Eleven's WTT Champions Frankfurt page, with live scores and the draw. The semi-finals are on Sunday from 10am UK time, with the women's final at 4.30pm and the men's at 5.30pm.

Day four

Verdonschot beat Calderano on a service fault at 12-11 in the fourth game, Winter beat Han and Franziska came from two games down against Duda, while Annett Kaufmann went out to Hayata. Read our day four review.