WTT TOUR · 2022 TO 2026
Table tennis prize money
Every cheque the World Table Tennis tour has written, player by player: $42,532,256 across 183 events and 1,865 players, led by Yingsha Sun on $1,318,021.
Table tennis pays by result and nothing else. There is no appearance fee at the bottom of the draw and no contract behind the tour, so a player's year is the sum of the rounds they reached, and the difference between a good one and a lean one is a single deep run at the right week.
PAID OUT $42.5m
TOP EARNER $1.3m
PLAYERS PAID 1,865
EVENTS 183
FEDERATIONS 112
The table tennis money list
The fifty biggest earners the WTT tour has paid
| # | Player | Federation | Titles | Paid results | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Yingsha Sun | China | 28 | 51 | $1,318,021 |
| 02 | Chuqin Wang | China | 27 | 55 | $1,115,617 |
| 03 | Manyu Wang | China | 21 | 57 | $1,098,767 |
| 04 | Tomokazu Harimoto | Japan | 18 | 85 | $765,788 |
| 05 | Yidi Wang | China | 7 | 57 | $760,312 |
| 06 | Shidong Lin | China | 27 | 87 | $694,774 |
| 07 | Felix Lebrun | France | 11 | 72 | $665,880 |
| 08 | Miwa Harimoto | Japan | 25 | 97 | $654,810 |
| 09 | Xingtong Chen | China | 12 | 54 | $640,782 |
| 10 | Truls Moregard | Sweden | 5 | 55 | $620,687 |
| 11 | Yun-Ju Lin | Chinese Taipei | 7 | 70 | $549,012 |
| 12 | Hugo Calderano | Brazil | 12 | 60 | $535,092 |
| 13 | Hina Hayata | Japan | 19 | 79 | $527,890 |
| 14 | Dang Qiu | Germany | 2 | 73 | $477,740 |
| 15 | Zhendong Fan | China | 7 | 21 | $445,500 |
| 16 | Man Kuai | China | 24 | 83 | $441,380 |
| 17 | Yubin Shin | South Korea | 17 | 115 | $438,766 |
| 18 | Sora Matsushima | Japan | 7 | 74 | $436,980 |
| 19 | Jingkun Liang | China | 6 | 51 | $436,525 |
| 20 | Mima Ito | Japan | 2 | 49 | $431,588 |
| 21 | Darko Jorgic | Slovenia | 2 | 73 | $405,537 |
| 22 | Meng Chen | China | 5 | 24 | $405,125 |
| 23 | Patrick Franziska | Germany | 2 | 68 | $368,195 |
| 24 | Alexis Lebrun | France | 6 | 77 | $368,095 |
| 25 | Long Ma | China | 3 | 23 | $367,250 |
| 26 | Satsuki Odo | Japan | 26 | 80 | $359,058 |
| 27 | I-Ching Cheng | Chinese Taipei | 2 | 78 | $357,100 |
| 28 | Adriana Diaz | Puerto Rico | 71 | $330,450 | |
| 29 | Bernadette Szocs | Romania | 94 | $330,375 | |
| 30 | Cheonhui Joo | South Korea | 2 | 90 | $327,800 |
| 31 | Woojin Jang | South Korea | 5 | 69 | $319,808 |
| 32 | Yuling Zhu | Macao | 4 | 25 | $316,350 |
| 33 | Benedikt Duda | Germany | 5 | 84 | $311,498 |
| 34 | Anton Kallberg | Sweden | 3 | 66 | $311,150 |
| 35 | Yi Chen | China | 10 | 65 | $300,100 |
| 36 | Hoi Kem Doo | Hong Kong | 3 | 110 | $297,214 |
| 37 | Shunsuke Togami | Japan | 6 | 81 | $291,317 |
| 38 | Jia Nan Yuan | France | 1 | 66 | $286,425 |
| 39 | Jaehyun An | South Korea | 10 | 110 | $284,110 |
| 40 | Peng Xiang | China | 9 | 70 | $280,325 |
| 41 | Gaoyuan Lin | China | 7 | 48 | $280,037 |
| 42 | Jonghoon Lim | South Korea | 21 | 114 | $274,013 |
| 43 | Dimitrij Ovtcharov | Germany | 2 | 54 | $273,075 |
| 44 | Quadri Aruna | Nigeria | 49 | $271,150 | |
| 45 | Sofia Polcanova | Austria | 60 | $252,373 | |
| 46 | Simon Gauzy | France | 3 | 72 | $251,175 |
| 47 | Bruna Takahashi | Brazil | 2 | 72 | $250,255 |
| 48 | Tianyi Qian | China | 6 | 58 | $245,510 |
| 49 | Elizabeta Samara | Romania | 82 | $239,212 | |
| 50 | Yukiya Uda | Japan | 1 | 59 | $235,263 |
The full list runs to 1,865 names. See every player the tour has paid.
The twenty richest players in the sport
Career prize money on the WTT tour
The tour, top to bottom
What a champion takes at each tier of the calendar
| Tier | What it is | Events | To the champion | Paid out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Smash | The four Grand Smash weeks are the richest events in the sport, and one of them pays more than a whole season of Feeders. | 13 | $100,000 | $18,348,405$18.3m |
| WTT Finals | Sixteen players, no qualifying, and a week that exists to settle the season. | 4 | $40,000 | $2,072,000$2.1m |
| WTT Cup Finals | The season-ending field of eight, run before the Finals took the name. | 1 | $55,000 | $927,500 |
| WTT Champions | A 32-player draw with no doubles and no qualifying, which is why the singles cheque runs so far ahead of the Contender below it. | 22 | $40,000 | $11,881,500$11.9m |
| WTT Star Contender | The tier where the world top ten start appearing in numbers, and where the doubles draws pay properly. | 20 | $10,000 | $4,077,206$4.1m |
| WTT Contender | The working week of the tour: a full draw, qualifying, and a champion who takes about a twentieth of what a Smash pays. | 42 | $5,000 | $3,244,850$3.2m |
| WTT Feeder | The bottom rung, and the one with the most editions. A Feeder champion takes less than a Smash pays for losing in the first round. | 78 | $1,000 | $1,920,795$1.9m |
| Youth Smash | The junior week attached to a Grand Smash, and the only youth event with a Smash name on it. | 3 | $2,000 | $60,000 |
See what every round of every tier pays, from the champion down to the last 64.
The richest weeks on the calendar
Prize pots, biggest first
Every event on the tour
What each week has paid across every edition of it
| Event | Tier | Editions | Seasons | Paid out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore Smash | Grand Smash | 5 | 2022 to 2026 | $7,816,999$7.8m |
| WTT Champions Macao | WTT Champions | 5 | 2022 to 2026 | $3,800,000$3.8m |
| China Smash | Grand Smash | 3 | 2024 to 2026 | $3,344,266$3.3m |
| United States Smash | Grand Smash | 2 | 2025 to 2026 | $2,953,225$3.0m |
| Europe Smash - Sweden | Grand Smash | 2 | 2025 to 2026 | $2,578,215$2.6m |
| WTT Champions Chongqing | WTT Champions | 3 | 2024 to 2026 | $2,271,500$2.3m |
| Saudi Smash | Grand Smash | 1 | 2024 | $1,655,700$1.7m |
| WTT Champions Frankfurt | WTT Champions | 4 | 2023 to 2026 | $1,425,000$1.4m |
| WTT Champions Montpellier | WTT Champions | 3 | 2024 to 2026 | $950,000 |
| WTT Champions Yokohama | WTT Champions | 2 | 2025 to 2026 | $950,000 |
| WTT Cup Finals Xinxiang | WTT Cup Finals | 1 | 2022 | $927,500 |
| WTT Star Contender Ljubljana | WTT Star Contender | 4 | 2023 to 2026 | $885,585 |
| WTT Champions Incheon | WTT Champions | 2 | 2024 to 2025 | $775,000 |
| WTT Finals Hong Kong | WTT Finals | 1 | 2025 | $761,000 |
| WTT Champions Xinxiang | WTT Champions | 1 | 2023 | $760,000 |
| WTT Finals Fukuoka | WTT Finals | 1 | 2024 | $665,000 |
| WTT Star Contender Doha | WTT Star Contender | 3 | 2024 to 2026 | $622,134 |
| WTT Champions Doha | WTT Champions | 1 | 2026 | $475,000 |
| WTT Champions European Summer Series | WTT Champions | 1 | 2022 | $475,000 |
| WTT Star Contender Chennai | WTT Star Contender | 2 | 2025 to 2026 | $427,534 |
| WTT Star Contender Bangkok | WTT Star Contender | 2 | 2023 to 2024 | $419,900 |
| WTT Star Contender Goa | WTT Star Contender | 2 | 2023 to 2024 | $402,500 |
| WTT Contender Almaty | WTT Contender | 5 | 2022 to 2026 | $386,025 |
| WTT Contender Tunis | WTT Contender | 5 | 2022 to 2026 | $382,900 |
| WTT Contender Muscat | WTT Contender | 5 | 2022 to 2026 | $373,800 |
| WTT Contender Lagos | WTT Contender | 4 | 2023 to 2026 | $326,200 |
| WTT Contender Zagreb | WTT Contender | 4 | 2023 to 2026 | $326,075 |
| WTT Finals Men Doha | WTT Finals | 1 | 2024 | $323,000 |
| WTT Finals Women Nagoya | WTT Finals | 1 | 2023 | $323,000 |
| WTT Contender Taiyuan | WTT Contender | 4 | 2023 to 2026 | $303,550 |
| WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos | WTT Star Contender | 1 | 2026 | $245,001 |
| WTT Star Contender London | WTT Star Contender | 1 | 2025 | $221,684 |
| WTT Star Contender Muscat | WTT Star Contender | 1 | 2025 | $219,084 |
| WTT Star Contender Foz do Iguaçu | WTT Star Contender | 1 | 2025 | $217,184 |
| WTT Star Contender European Summer Series | WTT Star Contender | 1 | 2022 | $210,000 |
| WTT Star Contender Lanzhou | WTT Star Contender | 1 | 2023 | $206,600 |
| WTT Contender Skopje | WTT Contender | 2 | 2025 to 2026 | $176,700 |
| WTT Feeder Olomouc | WTT Feeder | 5 | 2022 to 2026 | $169,420 |
| WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro | WTT Contender | 2 | 2023 to 2024 | $147,100 |
| WTT Contender Doha | WTT Contender | 2 | 2023 to 2024 | $146,825 |
The last weeks of the tour
Who won them, and what the title paid
| Event | Draw | Champion | To the winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| WTT Feeder Puerto Princesa 2026 | Men's Singles | Dongsoo Kang | $1,450 |
| Women's Singles | Sreeja Akula | $1,450 | |
| WTT Contender Panagyurishte 2026 | Men's Singles | Elias Ranefur | $5,000 |
| Women's Singles | Hitomi Sato | $5,000 | |
| WTT Champions Macao 2026 | Men's Singles | Truls Moregard | $60,000 |
| Women's Singles | Miwa Harimoto | $60,000 | |
| WTT Contender Almaty 2026 | Men's Singles | Shunsuke Togami | $5,000 |
| Women's Singles | Miu Hirano | $5,000 | |
| WTT Feeder Olomouc 2026 | Men's Singles | Ankur Bhattacharjee | $1,000 |
| Women's Singles | Rin Mende | $1,000 | |
| WTT Feeder Berlin 2026 | Men's Singles | Hyuk Kwon | $1,450 |
| Women's Singles | Nina Mittelham | $1,450 | |
| Europe Smash - Sweden 2026 | Men's Singles | Felix Lebrun | $100,000 |
| Women's Singles | Manyu Wang | $100,000 | |
| WTT Feeder Vientiane 2026 | Men's Singles | Ryoichi Yoshiyama | $1,450 |
| Women's Singles | Kaho Akae | $1,450 | |
| WTT Champions Yokohama 2026 | Men's Singles | Tomokazu Harimoto | $40,000 |
| Women's Singles | Miwa Harimoto | $40,000 | |
| WTT Feeder Tashkent 2026 | Men's Singles | Evgeny Tikhonov | $1,450 |
| Women's Singles | Yuna Ojio | $1,450 | |
| WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos 2026 | Men's Singles | Hugo Calderano | $17,000 |
| Women's Singles | Hina Hayata | $17,000 | |
| WTT Feeder Ulaanbaatar 2026 | Men's Singles | Che-Yen Hung | $1,450 |
| Women's Singles | Yuna Ojio | $1,450 |
Where the money ends up
Every cheque the tour has written, by federation
What the tour pays out each season
Named prize money by year, and the running total behind it
$9.1m 26
$12m 25
$10m 24
$6.2m 23
$4.6m 22
season running total
Frequently asked questions
Who has won the most table tennis prize money?
Yingsha Sun of China, $1,318,021 across 51 paid results on the WTT tour.
How much does a table tennis tournament pay?
$100,000 to the champion of a Grand Smash, which is the richest week in the sport, against $1,000 at a WTT Feeder, a gap of 100 times.
Do table tennis players earn a salary?
Not from the tour. A WTT player is paid per result, so a season with no deep runs is a season with no income from the calendar, and the club leagues in China, Germany and Japan are where a contract rather than a cheque comes from.
Which country wins the most table tennis prize money?
China, $10,478,824 across 123 paid players, out of 112 federations the tour has paid.
How many table tennis players make a living from prize money?
1,865 players have been paid by the tour and 857 of them have won enough for a page of their own, so the money thins out fast below the top of the draw.
What happens to doubles prize money?
The cheque is written to the pair and split down the middle, so each half of a winning doubles team banks half of a figure that is already well short of the singles rung beside it.
Where to next
Players, events, tiers and seasons
Players
- Yingsha Sun
- Chuqin Wang
- Manyu Wang
- Tomokazu Harimoto
- Yidi Wang
- Shidong Lin
- Felix Lebrun
- Miwa Harimoto
- Xingtong Chen
- Truls Moregard
- Yun-Ju Lin
- Hugo Calderano
- Hina Hayata
- Dang Qiu
- Zhendong Fan
- Man Kuai
- Yubin Shin
- Sora Matsushima
- Jingkun Liang
- Mima Ito
- Darko Jorgic
- Meng Chen
- Patrick Franziska
- Alexis Lebrun
- Long Ma
- Satsuki Odo
- I-Ching Cheng
- Adriana Diaz
- Bernadette Szocs
- Cheonhui Joo
- Woojin Jang
- Yuling Zhu
- Benedikt Duda
- Anton Kallberg
- Yi Chen
- Hoi Kem Doo
- Shunsuke Togami
- Jia Nan Yuan
- Jaehyun An
- Peng Xiang
- Gaoyuan Lin
- Jonghoon Lim
- Dimitrij Ovtcharov
- Quadri Aruna
- Sofia Polcanova
- Simon Gauzy
- Bruna Takahashi
- Tianyi Qian
- Elizabeta Samara
- Yukiya Uda
- Anders Lind
- Omar Assar
- Ying Han
- Miyuu Kihara
- Miyu Nagasaki
- Sang Su Lee
- Nayeong Kim
- Nina Mittelham
- Jihee Jeon
- Jonathan Groth
Events
- Singapore Smash prize money
- WTT Champions Macao prize money
- China Smash prize money
- United States Smash prize money
- Europe Smash - Sweden prize money
- WTT Champions Chongqing prize money
- Saudi Smash prize money
- WTT Champions Frankfurt prize money
- WTT Champions Montpellier prize money
- WTT Champions Yokohama prize money
- WTT Cup Finals Xinxiang prize money
- WTT Star Contender Ljubljana prize money
- WTT Champions Incheon prize money
- WTT Finals Hong Kong prize money
- WTT Champions Xinxiang prize money
- WTT Finals Fukuoka prize money
- WTT Star Contender Doha prize money
- WTT Champions Doha prize money
- WTT Champions European Summer Series prize money
- WTT Star Contender Chennai prize money
- WTT Star Contender Bangkok prize money
- WTT Star Contender Goa prize money
- WTT Contender Almaty prize money
- WTT Contender Tunis prize money
- WTT Contender Muscat prize money
- WTT Contender Lagos prize money
- WTT Contender Zagreb prize money
- WTT Finals Men Doha prize money
- WTT Finals Women Nagoya prize money
- WTT Contender Taiyuan prize money
- WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos prize money
- WTT Star Contender London prize money
- WTT Star Contender Muscat prize money
- WTT Star Contender Foz do Iguaçu prize money
- WTT Star Contender European Summer Series prize money
- WTT Star Contender Lanzhou prize money
- WTT Contender Skopje prize money
- WTT Feeder Olomouc prize money
- WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro prize money
- WTT Contender Doha prize money
Federations
- China table tennis prize money
- Japan table tennis prize money
- South Korea table tennis prize money
- Germany table tennis prize money
- France table tennis prize money
- Chinese Taipei table tennis prize money
- Sweden table tennis prize money
- India table tennis prize money
- Brazil table tennis prize money
- Hong Kong table tennis prize money
- Romania table tennis prize money
- Egypt table tennis prize money
- Australia table tennis prize money
- United States table tennis prize money
- Singapore table tennis prize money
- Portugal table tennis prize money
- Denmark table tennis prize money
- Slovenia table tennis prize money
- Poland table tennis prize money
- Croatia table tennis prize money
- Puerto Rico table tennis prize money
- Austria table tennis prize money
- Macao table tennis prize money
- Nigeria table tennis prize money
- Spain table tennis prize money
- Italy table tennis prize money
- Thailand table tennis prize money
- England table tennis prize money
- Slovakia table tennis prize money
- Kazakhstan table tennis prize money
- Canada table tennis prize money
- Czechia table tennis prize money
- Russia table tennis prize money
- Belgium table tennis prize money
- Hungary table tennis prize money
- Luxembourg table tennis prize money
- Chile table tennis prize money
- Iran table tennis prize money
- Netherlands table tennis prize money
- Ukraine table tennis prize money
The tour
- Grand Smash prize money
- WTT Finals prize money
- WTT Cup Finals prize money
- WTT Champions prize money
- WTT Star Contender prize money
- WTT Contender prize money
- WTT Feeder prize money
- Youth Smash prize money
- The 2026 season
- The 2025 season
- The 2024 season
- The 2023 season
- The 2022 season
- What every round of the tour pays
- Men's and women's prize money
- The table tennis money list
- Table tennis prize money by country