Title contender Lu will face top seed Victor Axelsen of Denmark in the semi-finals on Saturday. The second semi-final will be played between Ng's Long Angus of Hong Kong, China and Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia.

An all-Chinese semi-final has been set in the women's singles after Wang Xi won over teammate Gao Fangji and Zhang Yiman defeated India's Ashmit Chaliha, Xinhua reported. The second semi-final of women's singles was won by India's P.V. It is going to happen between. Indus and Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan.

Also on Friday, China's third-seeded men's doubles pair He Jiting and Ren Jiangyu defeated their Malaysian opponents to set up a semi-final with South Korea's Jin Yong and Na Sung-seung.

The other men's doubles semi-finals will pit Malaysian pair Junaidy Arif/Roy Kin Yap and second-seeded Danes Kim Astrup/Anders Skaarup Rasmussen. In women's doubles, Japanese pair Rin Iwanaga and Ki Nakanishi will face Bulgaria's Gabriela Stoeva and Stefanie Stoeva in the semi-finals, while South Korean pair Lee Yu-lim and Shin Seung-chan will take on Malaysia's Ta Pearli and Thina Muralitharan in the semi-finals.

In Saturday's mixed doubles semi-finals, top seeds Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei of Malaysia will face their compatriots Goh Soon Huat and Lai Shewo Jamie, while Indonesia's Rinov Rivaldi and Pitha Haningtyas will take on Denmark's Mathias Christiansen and Alexandra Boje. .

The Malaysia Masters will run from May 21 to 26.