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YOUTH SMASH · 2025

China Youth Smash 2025 prize money

A $20,000 week in Shougang Park, 2025-10-03 to 2025-10-05. The champion takes $2,000, 10% of the pot on one cheque.

The tour publishes what each place is worth and what the week is worth in total. It has never published who collected any of it. The ladder as published is below, then the draw read round by round so every rung on it has the names that stood on it.

PRIZE POT $20k
TO THE CHAMPION $2k
DRAWS 4
PLAYERS PAID 59
FEDERATIONS 10

The 2025 China Youth Smash at a glance

What the week is, and where it sits on the tour

Tier
Youth Smash
Venue
Shougang Park
Played
2025-10-03 to 2025-10-05
Prize pot
$20,000
Champion's cheque
$2,000
Editions of this event
1

The prize ladder

What each place is worth, as published

10 rungs

Place Draws it applies to Ranking points Prize
Champion the cheque every draw is played for Singles U19 4,000 $2,000
Finalist Singles U19 2,800 $1,250
Champion Singles U15 625 $1,000
Semifinals Singles U19 1,540 $800
Finalist Singles U15 440 $650
Semifinals Singles U15 240 $400
Quarterfinals Singles U19 845 $250
Quarterfinals Singles U15 130 $125
Round of 16 Singles U19 465 $100
Round of 16 Singles U15 75 $50

A place on this ladder is the deepest round a player reached, not the deepest one they won. Losing a quarter-final is a quarter-finalist's cheque, which is why the money stops dead at the round a player went out in and does not accumulate on the way up.

How steeply the ladder falls

Each rung against the one above it

Top rung 40x the bottom

Champion $2,000
Finalist $1,250
Champion $1,000
Semifinals $800
Finalist $650
Semifinals $400
Quarterfinals $250
Quarterfinals $125
Round of 16 $100
Round of 16 $50

The table is a lookup and the chart is the argument. Table tennis pays its champion several times what the beaten finalist takes, and the drop from there to the quarter-finals is steeper again: the money is concentrated at the end of a week rather than spread across it.

Where the money actually went

Each rung times the number of players who stood on it

5 rungs paid

Champion (4) $6,000
Semifinals (8) $4,800
Finalist (4) $3,800
Quarterfinals (16) $3,000
Round of 16 (32) $2,400

This is the fact the ladder cannot state. A first-round cheque is the smallest figure on the table, and there are more players collecting one than every other rung put together, so the bottom of the draw is often worth more in total than the semi-finals are.

Who collected it

Every rung of every draw, with the players on it

4 draws

The draw read round by round against the ladder above. A doubles rung pays a pair, so the figure beside a doubles row is the rung itself and the two names share it.

U19 Boys' Singles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Guan-Hong Kuo Chinese Taipei $2,000
Finalist Ruibo Wen China $1,250
Semifinals Hsien-Chia Hsu Chinese Taipei $800
Semifinals Alan Kurmangaliyev Kazakhstan $800
Quarterfinals Hechen Li China $250
Quarterfinals Yu-An Chang Chinese Taipei $250
Quarterfinals Jing-Kai Hung Chinese Taipei $250
Quarterfinals Kazuki Yoshiyama Japan $250
Round of 16 Yeongmin Ma South Korea $100
Round of 16 Ellsworth Le Singapore $100
Round of 16 Hyuk Kwon South Korea $100
Round of 16 Ryuusei Kawakami Japan $100
Round of 16 Xing Yao Loy Singapore $100
Round of 16 Izaac Quek Singapore $100
Round of 16 Xunan Huang China $100
Round of 16 Gaon Kim South Korea $100

U19 Girls' Singles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Mao Takamori Japan $2,000
Finalist Yutong Yan China $1,250
Semifinals Yi Hu China $800
Semifinals Geman Zong China $800
Quarterfinals Min-Hsin Chen Chinese Taipei $250
Quarterfinals Anna Hursey Wales $250
Quarterfinals Tsz Tung Su Hong Kong $250
Quarterfinals Yerim Heo South Korea $250
Round of 16 Qihui Zhu China $100
Round of 16 Dania Mohd Malaysia $100
Round of 16 Yi-Tian Yeh Chinese Taipei $100
Round of 16 Miku Matsushima Japan $100
Round of 16 Yuxuan Qin China $100
Round of 16 Yuna Ojio Japan $100
Round of 16 Sachi Aoki Japan $100
Round of 16 Ming Shum Mak Hong Kong $100

U15 Boys' Singles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Guanhong Zhou China $1,000
Finalist Seungsoo Lee South Korea $650
Semifinals Zining Wang China $400
Semifinals Min-Hsiu Cheng Chinese Taipei $400
Quarterfinals Haiyang Yu China $125
Quarterfinals Kai-Cheng Chen Chinese Taipei $125
Quarterfinals Baixin Xiao China $125
Quarterfinals Kenyu Hiratsuka Japan $125
Round of 16 Faraz Shakiba Iran $50
Round of 16 Arshia Lorestani Iran $50
Round of 16 Lei Hua China $50
Round of 16 Zijun Cui China $50
Round of 16 Ki Ho Li Hong Kong $50
Round of 16 Hong An Lee Malaysia $50
Round of 16 Yeongmin Ma South Korea $50
Round of 16 Ukyo Kobayashi Japan $50

U15 Girls' Singles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Qihui Zhu China $1,000
Finalist Ziling Liu China $650
Semifinals Yiyi Jiang China $400
Semifinals Yiyang Ding China $400
Quarterfinals Cocona Muramatsu Japan $125
Quarterfinals Ming Ying Loy Singapore $125
Quarterfinals Wangqi Zhao China $125
Quarterfinals Wan-Rong Lin Chinese Taipei $125
Round of 16 Aoba Takahashi Japan $50
Round of 16 Miku Matsushima Japan $50
Round of 16 Yufei Zhou China $50
Round of 16 Huize Yang China $50
Round of 16 Dania Mohd Malaysia $50
Round of 16 Yurui Zhu China $50
Round of 16 Yerim Heo South Korea $50
Round of 16 Tsz Kiu Fong Hong Kong $50

The 2025 China Youth Smash money list

Every player the week paid, richest first

59 players

# Player Federation How far they got Won here
01 Guan-Hong Kuo Chinese Taipei U19 Boys' Singles champion $2,000
02 Mao Takamori Japan U19 Girls' Singles champion $2,000
03 Ruibo Wen China U19 Boys' Singles finalist $1,250
04 Yutong Yan China U19 Girls' Singles finalist $1,250
05 Qihui Zhu China U15 Girls' Singles champion, U19 Girls' Singles round of 16 $1,100
06 Guanhong Zhou China U15 Boys' Singles champion $1,000
07 Hsien-Chia Hsu Chinese Taipei U19 Boys' Singles semifinals $800
08 Alan Kurmangaliyev Kazakhstan U19 Boys' Singles semifinals $800
09 Yi Hu China U19 Girls' Singles semifinals $800
10 Geman Zong China U19 Girls' Singles semifinals $800
11 Seungsoo Lee South Korea U15 Boys' Singles finalist $650
12 Ziling Liu China U15 Girls' Singles finalist $650
13 Zining Wang China U15 Boys' Singles semifinals $400
14 Min-Hsiu Cheng Chinese Taipei U15 Boys' Singles semifinals $400
15 Yiyi Jiang China U15 Girls' Singles semifinals $400
16 Yiyang Ding China U15 Girls' Singles semifinals $400
17 Yerim Heo South Korea U19 Girls' Singles quarterfinals, U15 Girls' Singles round of 16 $300
18 Hechen Li China U19 Boys' Singles quarterfinals $250
19 Yu-An Chang Chinese Taipei U19 Boys' Singles quarterfinals $250
20 Jing-Kai Hung Chinese Taipei U19 Boys' Singles quarterfinals $250
21 Kazuki Yoshiyama Japan U19 Boys' Singles quarterfinals $250
22 Min-Hsin Chen Chinese Taipei U19 Girls' Singles quarterfinals $250
23 Anna Hursey Wales U19 Girls' Singles quarterfinals $250
24 Tsz Tung Su Hong Kong U19 Girls' Singles quarterfinals $250
25 Yeongmin Ma South Korea U19 Boys' Singles round of 16, U15 Boys' Singles round of 16 $150
26 Dania Mohd Malaysia U19 Girls' Singles round of 16, U15 Girls' Singles round of 16 $150
27 Miku Matsushima Japan U19 Girls' Singles round of 16, U15 Girls' Singles round of 16 $150
28 Haiyang Yu China U15 Boys' Singles quarterfinals $125
29 Kai-Cheng Chen Chinese Taipei U15 Boys' Singles quarterfinals $125
30 Baixin Xiao China U15 Boys' Singles quarterfinals $125
31 Kenyu Hiratsuka Japan U15 Boys' Singles quarterfinals $125
32 Cocona Muramatsu Japan U15 Girls' Singles quarterfinals $125
33 Ming Ying Loy Singapore U15 Girls' Singles quarterfinals $125
34 Wangqi Zhao China U15 Girls' Singles quarterfinals $125
35 Wan-Rong Lin Chinese Taipei U15 Girls' Singles quarterfinals $125
36 Ellsworth Le Singapore U19 Boys' Singles round of 16 $100
37 Hyuk Kwon South Korea U19 Boys' Singles round of 16 $100
38 Ryuusei Kawakami Japan U19 Boys' Singles round of 16 $100
39 Xing Yao Loy Singapore U19 Boys' Singles round of 16 $100
40 Izaac Quek Singapore U19 Boys' Singles round of 16 $100
41 Xunan Huang China U19 Boys' Singles round of 16 $100
42 Gaon Kim South Korea U19 Boys' Singles round of 16 $100
43 Yi-Tian Yeh Chinese Taipei U19 Girls' Singles round of 16 $100
44 Yuxuan Qin China U19 Girls' Singles round of 16 $100
45 Yuna Ojio Japan U19 Girls' Singles round of 16 $100
46 Sachi Aoki Japan U19 Girls' Singles round of 16 $100
47 Ming Shum Mak Hong Kong U19 Girls' Singles round of 16 $100
48 Faraz Shakiba Iran U15 Boys' Singles round of 16 $50
49 Arshia Lorestani Iran U15 Boys' Singles round of 16 $50
50 Lei Hua China U15 Boys' Singles round of 16 $50
51 Zijun Cui China U15 Boys' Singles round of 16 $50
52 Ki Ho Li Hong Kong U15 Boys' Singles round of 16 $50
53 Hong An Lee Malaysia U15 Boys' Singles round of 16 $50
54 Ukyo Kobayashi Japan U15 Boys' Singles round of 16 $50
55 Aoba Takahashi Japan U15 Girls' Singles round of 16 $50
56 Yufei Zhou China U15 Girls' Singles round of 16 $50
57 Huize Yang China U15 Girls' Singles round of 16 $50
58 Yurui Zhu China U15 Girls' Singles round of 16 $50
59 Tsz Kiu Fong Hong Kong U15 Girls' Singles round of 16 $50

Which federations took the money home

The week's cheques added up by the flag on the entry

10 federations paid

China $9,125 Chinese Taipei $4,300 Japan $3,050 South Korea $1,300 Kazakhstan $800 Hong Kong $450 Singapore $425 Wales $250 Malaysia $200 Iran $100

The weeks around this one on the calendar

What the tour was paying immediately before and after

20 events

Year Event Tier Players paid Prize pot
2025 WTT Feeder Vientiane WTT Feeder 94 $30,000
2025 Europe Smash - Sweden Grand Smash 158 $1,550,000$1.5m
2025 Europe Youth Smash - Sweden Youth Smash 60 $20,000
2025 WTT Feeder Panagyurishte WTT Feeder 79 $45,000
2025 WTT Feeder Olomouc WTT Feeder 117 $30,000
2025 WTT Contender Almaty WTT Contender 92 $100,000
2025 WTT Champions Macao WTT Champions 64 $800,000
2025 WTT Feeder Istanbul WTT Feeder 96 $30,000
2025 WTT Feeder Cappadocia II WTT Feeder 97 $30,000
2025 China Smash Grand Smash 161 $2,050,000$2.0m
2025 WTT Star Contender London WTT Star Contender 114 $300,000
2025 WTT Champions Montpellier WTT Champions 64 $500,000
2025 WTT Champions Frankfurt WTT Champions 64 $500,000
2025 WTT Feeder Vila Nova de Gaia WTT Feeder 98 $30,000
2025 WTT Feeder Gdansk WTT Feeder 89 $30,000
2025 WTT Star Contender Muscat WTT Star Contender 110 $300,000
2025 WTT Finals Hong Kong WTT Finals 33 $1,300,000
2026 WTT Champions Doha WTT Champions 64 $500,000
2026 WTT Feeder Vadodara WTT Feeder 64 $30,000
2026 WTT Star Contender Doha WTT Star Contender 113 $300,000

Frequently asked questions

How much does the China Youth Smash 2025 winner get?

$2,000, out of a $20,000 pot. That is 10% of the week's prize money on one cheque.

What is the total prize money at the China Youth Smash 2025?

$20,000 across 4 draws, played in Shougang Park between 2025-10-03 to 2025-10-05.

Who won the China Youth Smash 2025?

Guan-Hong Kuo took the u19 boys' singles and $2,000. Mao Takamori took the u19 girls' singles and $2,000. Guanhong Zhou took the u15 boys' singles and $1,000. Qihui Zhu took the u15 girls' singles and $1,000.

How far down the draw does the money go at the China Youth Smash?

To round of 16, which pays $50. The ladder has 10 rungs on it, and $2,000 at the top is 40 times the bottom one.

How many players got paid at the China Youth Smash 2025?

59, from 10 federations. The richest week of a career is usually a Grand Smash, and the money thins out fast below the quarter-finals.

What kind of event is the China Youth Smash?

Youth Smash. The junior week attached to a Grand Smash, and the only youth event with a Smash name on it.

Where to next

The players this week paid, and the rest of the tour

Players paid at the 2025 China Youth Smash

Federations paid here

Elsewhere in table tennis