Hina Hayata retains WTT Frankfurt title

Hina Hayata retains her WTT Champions Frankfurt title in an all-Japanese final

8 November 2026: Hayata beats Satsuki Odo 4-2 as no Chinese player reaches the women's semi-finals

Hina Hayata successfully defended her WTT Champions Frankfurt title on 8 November, beating fellow Japanese player Satsuki Odo 4-2 in the women's final.

Hayata edged the first game 12-10 and took the second 11-3. Odo won the third 11-6 and the fifth 11-8, but Hayata won the fourth 11-5 and closed out the sixth 11-6.

"Winning a WTT Champions event is very difficult," Hayata said afterwards, as quoted by DotDotNews. She explained that last year she had won the title while recovering from a left-hand injury, and that this year she had come back stronger.

Hayata beat Miwa Harimoto 4-1 in the semi-finals after beating China's Kuai Man in the quarter-finals. Odo beat Germany's Sabine Winter 4-1 in the other semi-final.

It meant no Chinese player reached the women's semi-finals, a week after China had filled all four places in Montpellier. China were without Sun Yingsha and world No.1 Wang Manyu, who both withdrew injured before the start.

The result moved Odo up to world No.10 in the 9 November rankings, with Winter up to No.11. Hayata stayed sixth.