On the penultimate day of action, semi-final matches took place in both competitions at the Arena Stade Couvert comprising singles and doubles games.

The first matches of the day were the women's semi-final encounters played simultaneously.

On court one was the match between top seeds Denmark and hosts France, who took a surprise lead in the tie when Qi Xuefei came from a set down to beat Julie Dawall Jakobsen 12-21, 21-16, 21-8.

The Danes levelled the tie by taking the second game, a doubles tie, with Alexandra Boje and Mette Poulsen winning 21-17, 22-20 against Delphine Delrue and Anne Tran.

Denmark then took the next two ties to seal their place in the final, with Line Christophersen beating Marie Batomene 21-15, 15-21, 21-14 in the singles before Maiken Fruergaard and Amalie Magelund won 21-14, 21-11 in a doubles encounter with Vimala Heriau and Margot Lambert.

In the second women's semi-final Germany played Scotland, with the Scots taking the lead as Kirsty Gilmour won the opening singles tie 19-21, 21-19, 21-15 against Yvonne Li.

Germany levelled the match by taking the next singles game, with Fabienne Deprez beating Rachel Sugden 21-13 21-8.

The Germans then took the next ties of the match to secure victory, with Ann-Kathrin Spori beating Julie Macpherson 19-21, 21-17, 21-9 before victory was sealed with the first doubles game of the encounter as Linda Efler and Isabel Herttrich beat Eleanor O'Donnell and Ciara Torrance 21-19, 21-14.

Later in the day the men's team semi-finals took place with the first match of the afternoon seeing the Danes progress in comprehensive fashion without dropping a set.

The first match of the tie against Russia was a singles encounter which saw Viktor Axelsen beat Vladimir Malkov 21-8, 21-7.

A doubles match was the next game in the tie, with Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen beating Vladimir Ivanov and Ivan Sozonov 21-19, 21-15, before victory was secured by Jan O Jorgensen who beat Georgii Karpov 22-20, 21-11.

The final match of the day needed all five ties to decide a winner as hosts France took on The Netherlands.

The first two games of the tie were singles encounters and were shared 1-1, with Dutchman Mark Caljouw beating Brice Leverdez 21-13, 15-21, 21-19 before Christo Popov levelled the tie for the French by beating Joran Kweekel 21-16, 21-13.

Match three in the tie was a doubles encounter, with Jelle Maas and Robin Tabeling coming from a set down to win 10-21, 21-11, 21-12 against Thom Gicquel and Ronan Labar and put the Netherlands one game away from victory.

The Netherlands plan to play the final singles as match four backfired, as their player Wessel Van Der Aar retiring hurt after losing the first set 21-13 against Arnaud Merkle, squaring the tie at 2-2.

It all came down to a final doubles encounter which fittingly went three sets and saw Ruben Jille and Ties Van Der Lecq edge it for The Netherlands as they beat Christo Popov and Toma Junior Popov 21-15, 14-21, 21-18.

Finals in both the men's and women's team competitions take place tomorrow.