February 27, 2019
After time off for all teams, both series started on Wednesday. After a tremendous regular season, Guangdong still had some questions to answer about how they would handle the other top teams in the playoffs. They took care of business in the first game, getting a great all-around game from Nneka Ogwumike to offset another impressive performance from Tina Charles and the re-emergence of Shao Ting to beat Beijing 88-77. Bayi took a lead in the other series with a 76-66 win as Li Meng fired them past Jiangsu. Both top seeds will be looking to hold serve at home on Friday while the visitors will be looking for splits before returning home.
Guangdong vs. Beijing 88-77 GD Ogwumike 24/16r/7a Yang 15/7a Huang 14/8r Shen 12/7a Li 11 BJ Charles 35/12r Shao 21
Bayi vs. Jiangsu 76-66 81 Li 29/7a Pan 13 Zhang 10/8r JS Xu 19/13r Mosby 19 Zhang 12/7a