The quarter-finals of WTT Champions Montpellier are played on Saturday, with Miwa Harimoto, the third seed, facing China's Kuai Man and the defending champion, Truls Moregard, playing Lin Shidong.
Five of the eight women left are Chinese, and the men's last eight has three Chinese players and no one from Japan or France. Matches are now the best of seven games. Play starts at 11am UK time with an all-Chinese quarter-final between Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong, and the evening session begins at 5pm.
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The big matches
Sun Yingsha v Hina Hayata (12.30pm UK). Sun, the second seed and world No 2, is playing her first event since injury and needed five games to beat South Korea's Shin Yubin on Friday. Hayata, 26 and the sixth seed, beat Romania's Bernadette Szőcs in four games. The winner plays Wang Yidi or Chen Xingtong in the semi-finals.
Miwa Harimoto v Kuai Man (5pm UK). Harimoto, 18 and the world No 3, has won WTT Champions titles in Chongqing, Yokohama and Macau this year and no player has won four in a row. She needed five games to beat Lily Zhang on Friday after a 16-14 first game. Kuai, 22 and ranked fifth, won a deciding game 11-2 against Adriana Diaz and 14-12 against Wales's Anna Hursey. The winner meets Chen Yi or Hitomi Sato.
Lin Shidong v Truls Moregard (5.45pm UK). Moregard, 24, won this event last year and has come through in three and four games. Lin, 21 and the eighth seed, has not dropped a game, beating Lim Jonghoon and An Jaehyun in straight games. The winner plays Patrick Franziska or Zhou Qihao.
Patrick Franziska v Zhou Qihao (7.15pm UK). Zhou knocked out the world No 2, Félix Lebrun, on Friday evening after coming from two games down in the first round. Franziska, 34 and ranked 18th, beat Alexis Lebrun from two games down and Elias Ranefur in four. It is the last match of the day.
China's women
Wang Yidi, the defending champion, has won six games out of six, including the quickest match of the week, 20 minutes 20 seconds against Elizabeta Samara. Her teammate Chen Xingtong, the seventh seed, beat Annett Kaufmann in four games. They open the day at 11am.
Chen Yi, the Asian champion, beat the world No 1, Wang Manyu, 3-0 on Friday and plays Japan's Hitomi Sato, the eighth seed, at 6.30pm. Sato beat Germany's Sabine Winter in four games. With Wang Manyu gone, China are guaranteed at least one women's semi-finalist through the Wang Yidi-Chen Xingtong match.
The other men's quarter-finals
Hugo Calderano, the sixth seed and world No 7, plays Vladimir Sidorenko at 11.45am. Calderano has won six straight games, against Hiroto Shinozuka and Dimitrij Ovtcharov. Sidorenko, 24 and ranked 19th, beat Darko Jorgic and the world No 1, Sora Matsushima.
South Korea's Jang Woojin, the ninth seed, meets Liang Jingkun at 1.15pm. Jang beat Lin Yun-Ju 12-10 in the fifth game on Thursday, and Liang came from two games down to beat Simon Gauzy on Friday.
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.
- 11am: Chen Xingtong (CHN) v Wang Yidi (CHN), women's singles, quarter-final
- 11.45am: Vladimir Sidorenko v Hugo Calderano (BRA), men's singles, quarter-final
- 12.30pm: Hina Hayata (JPN) v Sun Yingsha (CHN), women's singles, quarter-final
- 1.15pm: Liang Jingkun (CHN) v Jang Woojin (KOR), men's singles, quarter-final
- 5pm: Miwa Harimoto (JPN) v Kuai Man (CHN), women's singles, quarter-final
- 5.45pm: Lin Shidong (CHN) v Truls Moregard (SWE), men's singles, quarter-final
- 6.30pm: Chen Yi (CHN) v Hitomi Sato (JPN), women's singles, quarter-final
- 7.15pm: Patrick Franziska (GER) v Zhou Qihao (CHN), 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 Montpellier page and homepage, with live scores. The semi-finals and finals are on Sunday.
Day four in brief
Chen Yi beat Wang Manyu 13-11, 11-8, 11-9 and Zhou beat Félix Lebrun 7-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-7, leaving France without a quarter-finalist after Gauzy lost from two games up to Liang. Sun beat Shin 11-6 in the fifth game. Read the full day four review.
