WTT Champions Montpellier ends on Sunday with four semi-finals in the morning and both finals in the late afternoon. Sun Yingsha plays the defending women's champion, Wang Yidi, in an all-Chinese semi-final, and Truls Moregard, the men's defending champion, meets Germany's Patrick Franziska.
The women's title is certain to go to China, with Kuai Man playing the Asian champion Chen Yi in the other semi-final. In the men's draw Hugo Calderano plays South Korea's Jang Woojin. Play starts at 10am UK time, 11am in Montpellier. The women's final is at 4.30pm and the men's final at 5.30pm.
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The big matches
Chen Yi v Kuai Man (10am UK). Chen, 22, beat Miwa Harimoto 3-0 in the Asian Championships final in Tashkent last week and here has beaten the world No 1, Wang Manyu, 3-0 and Hitomi Sato 4-0. Kuai, also 22 and the fifth seed, ended Harimoto's run on Saturday with a 4-2 win.
Wang Yidi v Sun Yingsha (10.45am UK). Wang, 29, won this title last year and beat Chen Xingtong 12-10 in the seventh game on Saturday. Sun, the world No 2, has played 12 games in her last two matches, against Shin Yubin and Hina Hayata, and is playing her first event since returning from injury. She turns 26 on Wednesday.
Hugo Calderano v Jang Woojin (11.30am UK). Calderano, 30 and the world No 7, won the Americas title last week and beat Vladimir Sidorenko 4-2 in the quarter-finals. Jang, 31 and ranked 10th, has beaten Flavien Coton, Lin Yun-Ju and Liang Jingkun.
Truls Moregard v Patrick Franziska (12.15pm UK). Moregard, 24, came from 3-2 down to beat Lin Shidong on Saturday and is the only one of the top four seeds left. Franziska, 34, is the lowest seed still in either draw, at 17, and has won two of his three matches in a deciding game, the latest 12-10 in the seventh against Zhou Qihao.
Moregard's defence
Moregard is trying to become the first man to win WTT Champions Montpellier twice. The top three seeds, Sora Matsushima, Félix Lebrun and Tomokazu Harimoto, all went out before the quarter-finals.
A win would put Franziska in his first WTT Champions final. He has beaten Alexis Lebrun, Elias Ranefur and Zhou on the way.
China's women
Four Chinese players reached the women's semi-finals after Kuai beat Harimoto and Chen Yi beat Sato on Saturday evening. Wang Yidi, the fourth seed, and Sun are the only two left from the top four seeds.
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.
- 10am: Chen Yi (CHN) v Kuai Man (CHN), women's singles, semi-final
- 10.45am: Wang Yidi (CHN) v Sun Yingsha (CHN), women's singles, semi-final
- 11.30am: Hugo Calderano (BRA) v Jang Woojin (KOR), men's singles, semi-final
- 12.15pm: Truls Moregard (SWE) v Patrick Franziska (GER), men's singles, semi-final
- 4.30pm: women's singles final
- 5.30pm: men's singles 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. All matches are the best of seven games, and each champion receives 1,000 world ranking points.
What's next
The draw for WTT Champions Frankfurt, which starts on Tuesday, is made on Sunday after the finals.
Day five in brief
Kuai beat Harimoto 9-11, 11-8, 11-2, 6-11, 11-9, 11-6 to end her run of three WTT Champions titles in a row, and Sun beat Hayata 11-9 in the seventh game after one hour 18 minutes. Moregard lost the first game 11-1 to Lin Shidong and won 4-3, and Franziska beat Zhou 12-10 in the seventh. Read the full day five review.
