World top-ranked Zhang Yining guaranteed at least a 1-2 finish by Chinese in the women's singles competition of the world table tennis championships on Thursday.
  
Zhang, dual Olympic champion, gave a 4-1 beating to Lin Ling from Hong Kong, China in the semifinals, closer to her first world singles crown.
  
Shaking off a lackluster start, the pencil-slim woman from Beijing played a consistent attacking game to nail a 10-12, 11-4, 11-5, 11-3, 11-7 victory.
  
Guo Yue and Guo Yan will clash in an all-Chinese semifinal.
  
Guo Yue, from northeast China's Liaoning province, clinched the mixed doubles gold with world top-ranked male Wang Liqin from Shanghai.
  
China is set to nab the women's doubles title as three semifinalists are from the Chinese national team and the other from Hong Kong.
  
Wide open are the men's singles and doubles.  German pair Timo Boll and Christian Suss take on Chinese Wang Hao and Kong Linghui in the doubles final and at least one non-Chinese will make it to the singles semifinals. 

(Xinhua News Agency May 5, 2005)