China’s Shi Yu Qi is yet another final, but it wasn’t plane sailing. Another Frenchman, Christo Popov, has been having a great week and pushed the number three seed all the way.

The first game was one-way traffic but the second was something special. A great battle that went to settings. Shi got the win in strange circumstances, the umpire called fault on Popov when he thought he’d won a net kill to make it 27-27. Instead, it was 28-26 and the match.

Shi will face Lanier in the final tomorrow.