China ensures women's singles podium sweep of Qatar Open
China has ensured that they would bring all the women's singles medals back home as Chinese players have booked all four berths in the semifinals at 2019 world tour Qatar open.
Current world number one and Rio Olympic champion Ding beat Japan's Mima Ito in style 12-10, 12-10, 11-4, 11-8 on Friday to book the semifinal berth.
Wang Manyu, 20, cruised past Singapore's Feng Tianwei 11-5, 11-9, 11-3, 7-11, 11-7 in the other quarterfinal on Friday.
21-year-old paddler He Zhuojia defeated no.7 seed Miu Hirano of Japan across six games (11-7, 11-8, 11-8, 8-11, 9-11, 11-5). She will face her compatriot Sun Yingsha in Saturday's quarterfinals after Sun weeded out South Korea's Kim Hayeong in quick fashion (11-4, 11-5, 11-4, 11-3).
Liu Shiwen and Wang Yidi will meet in another quarterfinal on Saturday after they cruised past their rivals 4-0 respectively.