LWEN / YUAN AND WANG / KUAI CLAIM US SMASH 2026 DOUBLES CROWNS AS SINGLES SEMIFINALS LOCK IN

FOURTH OF JULY DELIVERS MEN’S AND WOMEN’S DOUBLES GLORY,

AND A SINGLES DRAW NOW ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE TITLE MATCHES

ONTARIO, CALIF., JULY 4, 2026 – Fourth of July at US Smash 2026 came with hardware on the table, pressure in the air, and the kind of Grand Smash tension that turns every session into a statement.

With the Doubles events reaching title territory and the Singles Quarterfinals ripping through the draw, Day 7 at the Ontario Convention Center gave Southern California a full championship menu: Women’s Doubles crowned, Men’s Doubles heading for its final swing, and the Men’s and Women’s Singles fields now locked for Sunday afternoon’s Semifinals.

The first Doubles crown of the day went to Wang Manyu and Kuai Man, who defeated Miwa Harimoto and Hina Hayata 3-1 (13-11, 4-11, 14-12, 11-8) to capture the Women’s Doubles title inside Maverick ☆ Arena.

It was not a clean march. Harimoto and Hayata took the second game with authority and pushed the third into a pressure cooker, but Wang and Kuai found the sharper edge when the match tilted. The 14-12 third game became the turning point, giving the Chinese pair the separation they needed before they closed the door in the fourth.

For Kuai, the win adds another major US Smash Doubles chapter after her 2025 Women’s Doubles title in Las Vegas alongside Wang Yidi. This time, standing with Wang Manyu, she finished the job again. For Wang Manyu, it was a statement of her own after reaching last year’s Women’s Doubles Final and falling just short. In Southern California, she flipped the ending.

The Men’s Doubles title match then brought Lin Shidong and Huang Youzheng against Wen Ruibo and Yuan Licen, an all-China Final loaded with speed, first-strike pressure and two pairs that had cut through the draw from opposite halves.

Wen and Yuan took the crowns the hard way, defeating Lin and Huang 3-2 (11-9, 8-11, 6-11, 11-7, 11-9) in a Final that kept swinging until the very end. After taking the opening game, Wen and Yuan watched Lin and Huang flip the match with back-to-back games, putting the top seeds one game from the title. But the challengers refused to disappear. The fourth game reset the table. Wen and Yuan tightened their patterns, struck earlier in the rallies, and forced the Final into a decider. In the fifth, Lin and Huang moved within touching distance at 9-7, only for Wen and Yuan to find the final surge, winning four of the last five points and converting championship point at 10-9 to seal the Men’s Doubles crowns.

While Doubles owned the title lane, Singles locked in its final four.

In Men’s Singles, Sora Matsushima continued his ruthless run, sweeping Anders Lind 4-0 (11-5, 11-7, 11-5, 11-8) to become one of the first names into the Semifinals. Lind had already produced one of the biggest shocks of the week by taking out defending champion Wang Chuqin in the Round of 16, but Matsushima gave him no runway. The Japanese No.6 seed has yet to drop a game in Southern California, and that kind of clean damage makes him one of the most dangerous players left in the draw.

Waiting for him is Felix Lebrun, who survived the all-French Quarterfinal against his brother Alexis Lebrun, winning 4-2 (9-11, 6-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-9, 11-8) to end one of the most emotionally loaded matches of the week. After Alexis had removed Lin Shidong in the Round of 16, France was guaranteed a player in the Semifinals. Felix made sure it would be him, setting up a collision with Matsushima that now carries speed, youth, pressure and a place in the US Smash Final.

Truls Moregard also moved through with force, taking down Jang Woojin 4-0 (11-4, 11-6, 11-5, 11-5). After ending Kanak Jha’s home-soil surge in the Round of 16, Moregard came back with an even colder performance, stripping the drama out of the match early and never letting Jang find a foothold.

His Semifinal opponent will be the dark horse, Vladimir Sidorenko, who continued one of the sharpest runs of the week by beating Hiroto Shinozuka 4-1 (11-9, 11-9, 8-11, 11-9, 11-8). Sidorenko had already removed Tomokazu Harimoto in straight games one round earlier, and he backed it up against Shinozuka with another composed, high-pressure win. Shinozuka had arrived carrying serious momentum after taking out Hugo Calderano, but Sidorenko absorbed the fight and kept moving.

The Men’s Singles Semifinals are now set: Sora Matsushima meets Felix Lebrun in one half, while Truls Moregard faces Vladimir Sidorenko in the other. After a week that has already taken out Wang Chuqin, Lin Shidong, Tomokazu Harimoto and Hugo Calderano, the draw has become a survival test with no safe side left.

In Women’s Singles, the Sun Yingsha sent the clearest message of the day, beating Chen Xingtong 4-0 (11-5, 11-5, 11-6, 11-6) in a top-tier all-China Quarterfinal that never got away from her. After reaching the Mixed Doubles Final earlier in the week, Sun has kept her Singles campaign brutally clean. Her next opponent will be Wang Yidi, who ended Joo Cheonhui’s run with a 4-0 win of her own.

Joo came into the Quarterfinal carrying one of the biggest Women’s Singles results of US Smash 2026, having taken out defending champion Zhu Yuling in the Round of 16. But Wang Yidi halted the surge, winning 11-8, 11-5, 11-7, 11-6 and turning a potential danger match into controlled business. After surviving Sakura Yokoi in five games on Day 6, Wang looked far sharper one round later and now gets the ultimate test: the World No.1 in the Semifinals.

Miwa Harimoto also kept her Singles run alive, beating Hina Hayata 4-1 (11-7, 11-7, 13-11, 9-11, 11-6) in an all-Japan Quarterfinal that carried extra weight after the pair had earlier contested the Women’s Doubles Final together. The Doubles crown slipped away, but Harimoto’s Singles campaign pushed forward, and she now faces Kuai Man for a place in the US Smash Final.

Kuai had to go through the longest route of the day, outlasting Hitomi Sato 4-3 in a seven-game battle that refused to break cleanly until the final point. Sato, the Wildcard who had already stunned Wang Manyu and built one of the most compelling runs of the event, pushed Kuai into deep water again and again. But Kuai found the last answer, closing out a brutal (5-11, 11-5, 9-11, 7-11, 12-10, 11-3, 18-16) win to keep her Singles title chase alive after already claiming the Women’s Doubles crown.

The Women’s Singles Semifinals are now locked: Sun Yingsha faces Wang Yidi in a heavyweight all-China clash, while Miwa Harimoto meets Kuai Man in a showdown built on youth, speed and Grand Smash pressure. With the defending champion gone, Wang Manyu already out, and Sato’s wildcard run finally stopped at the last possible edge, the Women’s Singles title race enters Sunday with power, danger and no shortage of bite.

Saturday gave Southern California Doubles glory. Sunday brings the Singles Semifinals, the final title fights, and one last day for the biggest names left standing to finish the job. US Smash 2026 continues through Sunday at the Ontario Convention Center in Southern California. Tickets are available now at ussmash.com.