The lads’s draw has been shedding seeds all week. The ladies had different concepts.
All 4 high seeds within the Girls’s Singles got here via their quarterfinals on the Capital Securities Beijing Open 2026 with out dropping a sport, organising a semifinal spherical that has each historic weight and real title implications—significantly for the 2 gamers with triple crowns of their sights.
It was largely one-way visitors. Chao Yi Wang dispatched qualifier Seina Shima 11-2, 11-4 on Championship Courtroom—the participant who had upset the No. 7 seed unable to repeat the trick in opposition to the No. 1. In the identical half of the draw, Yufei Lengthy held off Pei-Chuan Kao within the tightest match of the spherical, finally successful 11-7, 12-10. On the backside of the draw, Sahra Dennehy was scientific in opposition to No. 6 seed Aiko Yoshitomi, successful 11-6, 11-4 with out fuss. Lingwei Kong survived an early scare—saving the opening sport 15-13 in opposition to No. 8 seed Mihae Kwon—earlier than easing via 11-4 within the second.
The Semifinals
The highest half of the draw units up a rematch with a rating to settle. Wang and Lengthy meet for the second time this season—a replay of final December’s Hangzhou semifinal, which Wang took 11-8, 11-7. Lengthy was the house favorite then. She is the house favorite now, with Beijing’s crowd behind her and the possibility to flip the lead to entrance of them. It is going to be probably the most emotionally charged match of the day.
The underside half is new territory. Dennehy and Kong have by no means met earlier than—the Australian No. 2 seed in opposition to China’s No. 4 on Chinese language soil. No head-to-head historical past, no narrative to lean on. Simply two of the shape gamers on the tour understanding who deserves a spot within the closing.
And the ultimate, if it follows the projections, would matter for causes past a single gold medal. Wang and Dennehy have been seeded first and second in each occasion this week and have each survived all their doubles encounters as effectively. A projected championship assembly would put a clear sweep on the road for each—and would even be a rematch of the Hangzhou closing, the place Dennehy beat Wang 11-7, 11-2 to say the title. Beijing provides Wang the possibility to reverse that outcome on house soil. Dennehy could have one thing to say about that.
Males’s Semis Set
The lads’s draw, far much less tidy than the ladies’s, has produced its personal compelling semifinal. Harrison Brown has been the week’s breakout performer—the Australian adopted up his upset of No. 4 seed Luc Pham by taking out No. 7 seed Nasa Hatakeyama 11-5, 13-11 within the quarterfinals. He now faces high seed Zane Ford within the semis, giving the American a check in what has been a robust debut week on the tour.
On the opposite aspect, No. 2 seed Hien Truong takes on No. 3 seed Jack Wong Hong-kit—two of probably the most skilled gamers within the draw assembly on the penultimate stage in a match that might simply function a closing in its personal proper.
Semifinal motion begins Saturday at 9 a.m. (GMT+8). The ladies’s draw is about up for one thing particular. The lads’s draw has already delivered it
