The six-time U.S. national champion headed to Chengdu off the back of a spectacular showing at the 2019 Pan American Table Tennis Championships in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, winning all four titles she was eligible to compete for.

Ranked 49th in the world, Zhang then rallied past the eighth-seeded Austrian Polcanova later on Saturday evening, beating the top ranked European player 11-9, 8-11, 11-8, 4-11, 8-11, 11-8, 11-8.

The California-raised American-born-Chinese will next play world No. 5 and second seed here Liu Shiwen in the semifinals, after the four-time World Cup title holder defeated two Chinese Taipei paddlers in a row, beating Chen Szu-Yu 4-1 and easing past Cheng I-Ching in straight sets.

Sunday's other semifinal will pit the 2017 Cup winner Zhu Yuling and Singapore veteran Feng Tianwei.

Zhu beat Canada's Zhang Mo and Germany's former European champion Petrissa Solja to reach the last four without losing a set, while Feng ousted Romanian qualifier Bernadette Szocs 4-0 before holding off Japanese Olympian Kasumi Ishikawa in full sets.

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