WNBA semi-finals fixed as Lynx face Mercury and Aces meet Fever

• New champion guaranteed after first-round drama

• Collier leads top-seeded Lynx against Mercury

• Wilson, Aces take on shorthanded Fever sans Clark

The WNBA semi-finals are set and a new champion is guaranteed after all four remaining teams were challenged in the opening round.

Minnesota, Las Vegas and Phoenix have all made it this far in the past few years, while Indiana, even without the injured Caitlin Clark, won a playoff series for the first time in a decade. The Lynx will face the Mercury, and the Aces will play the Fever in best-of-five series that begin Sunday.