China sweeps 6 seats in women's quarters

Olympic and defending world champion Li Xiaoxia led China's sweep of six berths at the women's singles quarter-finals on Friday.

Chinese women's dominance in the world championships was solid, only leaving two spots to Singapore's Feng Tianwei and Japan's Mima Ito, who both didn't meet Chinese players.

World No. 1 ranked Ding Ning crushed Germany's Irene Ivancan, 11-4, 11-7, 11-9, 11-8, while Li Xiaoxi, No. 3, beat Hong Kong player Jiang Huajun, 11-6, 11-3, 11-6, 12-10.

Ding will confront teammate Wu Yang, who chopped down Cheng I-Ching from Chinese Taipei, 11-9, 9-11, 11-4, 11-3, 11-1

No. 2 Liu Shiwen made short work of South Korea's Yang Hae-un, advancing with 11-5, 11-4, 11-6, 11-3.

Yang has one more game to play as she has reached the mixed doubles final partnering with Chinese Xu Xin.

Yang/Xu are the only transnational pair in competition as three other duos involving Chinese had exited early.

The combination of Germany's Timo Boll and China's Ma Long, previously tipped as the most watchable, lost men's doubles to China's Zhang Jike and Xu Xin in the second round.

Earlier, No. 4 Feng Tianwei won an all-Singaporean game to reach the quarter-finals.

Feng, who led Singapore to the world team title in 2010 and runners-up to China in 2012, beat 16th-ranked Yu Mengyu 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 12-10, 11-9.

The 29-year-old former Chinese will take on China's Mu Zi, who defeated Sweden's Matilda Ekholm 12-10, 13-11, 11-5, 11-3.

Mima Ito from Japan downed Teyana Bilenko of Ukraine 11-5, 11-8, 10-12, 11-9, 12-10

China's world No. 6 Zhu Yuling subdued 27th-ranked Li Jie from the Netherlands, 11-5, 11-3, 11-6, 11-2. Enditem