WTT Champions Frankfurt day four preview: Han Ying meets Sabine Winter as Franziska plays Duda

Germany will have a woman and a second man in the quarter-finals of WTT Champions Frankfurt after Friday, when Han Ying plays Sabine Winter and Patrick Franziska meets Benedikt Duda in the last 16.

Eleven matches finish the round at the Süwag Energie Arena: six in the afternoon session from midday UK time, 1pm in Frankfurt, and five in the evening from 5.30pm. Miwa Harimoto and Tomokazu Harimoto, the second seeds, play in the afternoon, and Kuai Man and Chen Yi in the evening. Seven of the 22 players are German.

The big matches

Joo Cheonhui v Miwa Harimoto (midday UK). Harimoto, 18 and the world No 3, opens the day. She beat Austria's Sofia Polcanova 11-7 in the fifth game on Tuesday, a week after losing to Kuai in the Montpellier quarter-finals. South Korea's Joo, 24 and ranked 17th, reversed a Montpellier defeat by Adriana Diaz to reach this round. The winner plays Chen Xingtong or Bruna Takahashi on Saturday.

Lim Jonghoon v Tomokazu Harimoto (1.45pm UK). Harimoto, 23 and the world No 3, lost to Simon Gauzy in Montpellier and answered by beating Vladimir Sidorenko, the man who knocked out Sora Matsushima there, 11-6, 11-8, 11-7. Lim, 29 and ranked 38th, lost the first two games to Sweden's Anton Källberg 11-1 and 12-10 on Wednesday and won the next three. The winner meets Dang Qiu in the quarter-finals.

Han Ying v Sabine Winter (5.30pm UK). Han, the 43-year-old defender ranked 16th, beat the third seed, Wang Yidi, in straight games on Wednesday. Winter, 34 and the world No 13, beat Wales's Anna Hursey in four. Both play for Germany, so one German woman is guaranteed a quarter-final place, against Margaryta Pesotska or Chen Yi.

Patrick Franziska v Benedikt Duda (7.15pm UK). Franziska, 34 and ranked 15th, led Jang Woojin 3-1 in the Montpellier final on Sunday and lost. Duda, 32, a wildcard ranked 39th, beat Jang on Thursday after losing the first game 11-3. Franziska beat China's Xiang Peng in four. The winner plays the world No 1, Matsushima, on Saturday evening.

Four more Germans

Annett Kaufmann, 20, the European singles runner-up last month and up to 29th in the world, plays Hina Hayata, the fifth seed, at 2.20pm. Kaufmann won a 14-12 third game on her way to beating Hong Kong's Doo Hoi Kem in four. Hayata, 26 and the world No 6, beat Lily Zhang of the US in straight games on Wednesday, and last week took Sun Yingsha to a seventh game in the Montpellier quarter-finals. Kaufmann beat Satsuki Odo in Montpellier before losing to Chen Xingtong.

Wim Verdonschot, 21, is playing his first WTT Champions event on a wildcard and is a career-high 40th in the world. He came from a game down to beat France's Gauzy, and meets Hugo Calderano, the sixth seed, at 2.55pm. Calderano, 30 and the world No 7, needed 52 minutes and five games to beat Liang Jingkun on Thursday, the longest match of the day.

Nina Mittelham, 29, who missed Montpellier with back problems, beat Romania's Elizabeta Samara in 23 minutes on Wednesday. She plays Kuai, the fourth seed, at 6.40pm. Kuai, 22 and the world No 4, lost Sunday's Montpellier final to Sun and needed 14 minutes 21 seconds to beat Amy Wang of the US. Mittelham and Duda won the European mixed doubles title together in Ljubljana last month.

Lin, Zhou, Chen Xingtong and Chen Yi

Lin Yun-Ju, the fifth seed, plays China's Zhou Qihao, the 10th seed, at 12.35pm, with Wen Ruibo waiting in the quarter-finals after he beat Wang Chuqin. Lin, 25 and the world No 6, came from 2-1 down to beat Darko Jorgic on Tuesday. Zhou, 29 and ranked 12th, beat Félix Lebrun in Montpellier last week and lost 12-10 in the seventh game of the quarter-finals to Franziska.

Chen Xingtong, 29, the sixth seed and world No 7, dropped one point in the first game of her win over South Korea's Kim Nayeong. She plays Brazil's Takahashi, 26 and ranked 33rd, who came from a game down to beat Taiwan's Cheng I-Ching.

South Korea's Oh Junsung, 20 and the world No 19, plays Japan's Shunsuke Togami, 25 and ranked 16th, at 6.05pm for a place against Calderano or Verdonschot. Chen Yi, 22, the Asian champion and eighth seed, closes the day against Ukraine's Pesotska, 35 and ranked 44th.

Order of play

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

• Midday: Joo Cheonhui (KOR) v Miwa Harimoto (JPN), women's singles, last 16
• 12.35pm: Lin Yun-Ju (TPE) v Zhou Qihao (CHN), men's singles, last 16
• 1.10pm: Chen Xingtong (CHN) v Bruna Takahashi (BRA), women's singles, last 16
• 1.45pm: Lim Jonghoon (KOR) v Tomokazu Harimoto (JPN), men's singles, last 16
• 2.20pm: Hina Hayata (JPN) v Annett Kaufmann (GER), women's singles, last 16
• 2.55pm: Wim Verdonschot (GER) v Hugo Calderano (BRA), men's singles, last 16
• 5.30pm: Han Ying (GER) v Sabine Winter (GER), women's singles, last 16
• 6.05pm: Oh Junsung (KOR) v Shunsuke Togami (JPN), men's singles, last 16
• 6.40pm: Nina Mittelham (GER) v Kuai Man (CHN), women's singles, last 16
• 7.15pm: Patrick Franziska (GER) v Benedikt Duda (GER), men's singles, last 16
• 7.50pm: Margaryta Pesotska (UKR) v Chen Yi (CHN), women's singles, last 16

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 from every match. Dyn shows the tournament in Germany. Matches are the best of five games in the last 16 and the best of seven from the quarter-finals, which start at midday UK time on Saturday.

Day three

Wen Ruibo, 19, beat Wang Chuqin 11-7, 11-8, 11-6 in his second match back from injury, Duda knocked out the Montpellier champion, Jang, and Hana Goda and Odo set up a women's quarter-final. Read our day three review.