China's paddlers secured the singles title at the 2023 Women's World Table Tennis (WTT) Finals in Nagoya on Saturday, setting up an all-Chinese doubles semifinal.

The singles semifinals will take place between Chen Meng against Sun Yingsha and Chen Xingtong against Wang Yidi. Meanwhile, Chen and Wang will meet Sun and Wang Manyu in the doubles semifinal round.

Olympic champion Chen extended her head-to-head record against Japan's Mima Ito to 7-0 after clinching a 3-0 (11-8, 11-2, 11-6) victory. Ito, who is the second-highest ranked player in the host nation, suffered the defeat while recovering from a fever.

"Ito is a strong player. I won because I managed to control the rhythm today and prepared well," said Chen, who previously dispatched the hosts' top-ranked Hina Hayata to up their head-to-head record to 7-0.

Meanwhile, top seed Sun outclassed German veteran Han Ying 3-0 (14-12, 11-4, 11-7). The two were neck and neck in the opening game, with the gap always under two points. Sun fired a brilliant long shot to reach 11-10 but soon hit the ball into the net before the 40-year-old led for the first time to take the first game point. Sun, who is ranked No. 1 in the world, proved her status with a decisive finish and went on to wrap up the match, while Han seemed to struggle to keep up with the pace.

Earlier in the day, two all-Chinese quarterfinal matches took place between Wang Yidi against Wang Rui and Chen Xingtong against Wang Manyu, with the matches ending 3-1 and 3-0, respectively.

Chen, who sits No.6 in the ITTF ranking, reached the semifinal round of the year-ending championships for the third time in a row by defeating her 2nd-place-ranked teammate.

With the Chinese players taking up all spots of the last four, they have secured the singles gold medal. The other semifinal clash will happen between Cheng I-Ching and Li Yu-Jhun of Chinese Taipei against local duo of Miyuu Kihara and Miyu Nagasaki.