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Saudi Smash prize money

1 edition between 2024 , with $65,000 to the champion at the richest of them. 159 players have been paid here.

Every edition of this event, what it put up, and the money list underneath it: who has collected the most at this one week of the calendar, across however many times they have played it.

BIGGEST POT $2.0m
TO THE CHAMPION $65k
EDITIONS 1
PLAYERS PAID 159
FIRST AND LAST 2024

The Saudi Smash money list

Everyone the event has paid, across every edition

159 players

# Player Federation Editions Titles Won here
01 Chuqin Wang China 2 2 $69,250
02 Meng Chen China 2 2 $69,250
03 Patrick Franziska Germany 1 $33,050
04 Yingsha Sun China 1 $33,050
05 Yidi Wang China 2 $22,500
06 Woojin Jang South Korea 1 $20,750
07 Shidong Lin China 1 $20,750
08 Hina Hayata Japan 1 $20,750
09 Felix Lebrun France 2 $19,075
10 Dang Qiu Germany 2 $17,500
11 Miwa Harimoto Japan 2 $17,500
12 Jonathan Groth Denmark 1 $17,000
13 Daeseong Cho South Korea 1 $17,000
14 Tianyi Qian China 1 $17,000
15 Mima Ito Japan 1 $17,000
16 Manika Batra India 1 $17,000
17 Hiroto Shinozuka Japan 2 $16,750
18 Jihee Jeon South Korea 2 $16,750
19 Xingtong Chen China 2 $15,750
20 Long Ma China 2 1 $15,250
21 Manyu Wang China 2 1 $15,250
22 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei 2 $15,000
23 Miyuu Kihara Japan 2 $15,000
24 Miu Hirano Japan 2 $14,500
25 Hugo Calderano Brazil 1 $14,000
26 Tomokazu Harimoto Japan 1 $14,000
27 Zhendong Fan China 1 $14,000
28 Maharu Yoshimura Japan 1 $14,000
29 Noshad Alamiyan Iran 1 $14,000
30 Darko Jorgic Slovenia 1 $14,000
31 Quadri Aruna Nigeria 1 $14,000
32 Nina Mittelham Germany 1 $14,000
33 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco 1 $14,000
34 Giorgia Piccolin Italy 1 $14,000
35 Shunsuke Togami Japan 2 $13,750
36 Yubin Shin South Korea 2 $13,750
37 Natalia Bajor Poland 2 $13,075
38 Gaoyuan Lin China 2 $12,750
39 Jingkun Liang China 2 $12,750
40 Nayeong Kim South Korea 2 $12,750
41 Jonghoon Lim South Korea 2 $12,000
42 Sang Su Lee South Korea 2 $12,000
43 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei 2 $12,000
44 Cheonhui Joo South Korea 2 $12,000
45 Benedikt Duda Germany 2 $11,500
46 Alvaro Robles Spain 2 $11,500
47 Nicholas Lum Australia 2 $11,500
48 Ovidiu Ionescu Romania 2 $11,500
49 Sofia Polcanova Austria 2 $11,500
50 Mo Zhang Canada 2 $11,500
51 Xiaona Shan Germany 2 $11,500
52 Timo Boll Germany 1 $11,000
53 Jaehyun An South Korea 1 $11,000
54 Omar Assar Egypt 1 $11,000
55 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany 1 $11,000
56 Ruwen Filus Germany 1 $11,000
57 Izabela Lupulesku Serbia 1 $11,000
58 Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong 1 $11,000
59 Tung-Chuan Chien Chinese Taipei 1 $11,000
60 Lily Zhang United States 1 $11,000
61 Jian Zeng Singapore 1 $11,000
62 Jieni Shao Portugal 1 $11,000
63 Hyo Won Suh South Korea 1 $11,000
64 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei 1 $11,000
65 Kristian Karlsson Sweden 2 $10,575
66 Alexis Lebrun France 2 $10,575
67 Anton Kallberg Sweden 2 $10,575
68 Yangzi Liu Australia 2 $10,575
69 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia 2 $10,575
70 Nicolas Burgos Chile 2 $10,250
71 Linda Bergstrom Sweden 2 $10,250
72 Christina Kallberg Sweden 2 $10,250
73 Miyu Nagasaki Japan 2 $10,250
74 Junsung Oh South Korea 2 $9,500
75 Sora Matsushima Japan 2 $9,500
76 Cheng-Jui Kao Chinese Taipei 2 $9,500
77 Ali Alkhadrawi Saudi Arabia 2 $9,500
78 Daniel Habesohn Austria 2 $9,500
79 Abdulaziz Shulaybi Bu Saudi Arabia 2 $9,500
80 Elizabeta Samara Romania 2 $9,500
81 Maria Xiao Spain 2 $9,500
82 Prithika Pavade France 2 $9,500
83 Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong 2 $9,500
84 Andreea Dragoman Romania 2 $9,500
85 Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei 2 $9,500
86 Adina Diaconu Romania 2 $9,500
87 Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand 2 $9,500
88 Orawan Paranang Thailand 2 $9,500
89 Ho Ching Lee Hong Kong 2 $9,500
90 Finn Luu Australia 2 $9,000
91 Martin Allegro Belgium 2 $9,000
92 Khalid Alshareif Saudi Arabia 2 $9,000
93 Liam Pitchford England 2 $9,000
94 Paul Drinkhall England 2 $9,000
95 Bruna Takahashi Brazil 2 $9,000
96 Xia Lian Ni Luxembourg 2 $9,000
97 Sabine Winter Germany 2 $9,000
98 Bernadette Szocs Romania 2 $9,000
99 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan 1 $8,500
100 Tiago Apolonia Portugal 1 $8,500
101 Anders Lind Denmark 1 $8,500
102 Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong 1 $8,500
103 Can Akkuzu France 1 $8,500
104 Edward Ly Canada 1 $8,500
105 Marcos Freitas Portugal 1 $8,500
106 Tomislav Pucar Croatia 1 $8,500
107 Aditya Sareen Australia 1 $8,500
108 Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei 1 $8,500
109 Izaac Quek Singapore 1 $8,500
110 Simon Gauzy France 1 $8,500
111 Joao Geraldo Portugal 1 $8,500
112 Sharath Kamal Achanta India 1 $8,500
113 Truls Moregard Sweden 1 $8,500
114 Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei 1 $8,500
115 Andy Pereira Cuba 1 $8,500
116 Adriana Diaz Puerto Rico 1 $8,500
117 Jia Nan Yuan France 1 $8,500
118 Dina Meshref Egypt 1 $8,500
119 Hsing-Yin Liu Chinese Taipei 1 $8,500
120 Charlotte Lutz France 1 $8,500
121 Sofia-Xuan Zhang Spain 1 $8,500
122 Amy Wang United States 1 $8,500
123 Fu Yu Portugal 1 $8,500
124 Yuan Wan Germany 1 $8,500
125 Sreeja Akula India 1 $8,500
126 Zion Lee South Korea 1 $8,500
127 Minhyung Jee Australia 1 $8,500
128 Hana Goda Egypt 1 $8,500
129 Wing Lam Ng Hong Kong 1 $2,075
130 Jakub Dyjas Poland 1 $1,750
131 Cedric Nuytinck Belgium 1 $1,750
132 Lubomir Pistej Slovakia 1 $1,750
133 Baldwin Chan Hong Kong 1 $1,750
134 Gustavo Gomez Chile 1 $1,750
135 Barbora Balazova Slovakia 1 $1,750
136 Hana Matelova Czechia 1 $1,750
137 Robert Gardos Austria 1 $1,000
138 Kwan Kit Ho Hong Kong 1 $1,000
139 Siu Hang Lam Hong Kong 1 $1,000
140 Manush Utpalbhai Shah India 1 $1,000
141 Manav Vikash Thakkar India 1 $1,000
142 Vitor Ishiy Brazil 1 $1,000
143 Guilherme Teodoro Brazil 1 $1,000
144 Camille Lutz France 1 $1,000
145 Ayhika Mukherjee India 1 $1,000
146 Sutirtha Mukherjee India 1 $1,000
147 Maciej Kubik Poland 1 $500
148 Milosz Redzimski Poland 1 $500
149 Turki Almutairi Saudi Arabia 1 $500
150 Nandor Ecseki Hungary 1 $500
151 Eric Jouti Brazil 1 $500
152 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium 1 $500
153 Ivy Liao Canada 1 $500
154 Marwa Alhodaby Egypt 1 $500
155 Mariam Alhodaby Egypt 1 $500
156 Giulia Takahashi Brazil 1 $500
157 Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg 1 $500
158 Arantxa Cossio Aceves Mexico 1 $500
159 Xin Ru Wong Singapore 1 $500

A doubles rung pays a pair and the two players share it here, so a doubles specialist's figure is half of what the ladder prices the round at. It is the only way a money list adds up to the same total the event paid out.

Who owns this week

The biggest career hauls at the Saudi Smash

65 paid at more than one edition

Chuqin Wang $69k Meng Chen $69k Patrick Franziska $33k Yingsha Sun $33k Yidi Wang $22k Woojin Jang $21k Shidong Lin $21k Hina Hayata $21k Felix Lebrun $19k Dang Qiu $17k Miwa Harimoto $17k Jonathan Groth $17k Daeseong Cho $17k Tianyi Qian $17k Mima Ito $17k

Every Saudi Smash

Newest first, with what each week put up

1 edition

Year Edition Venue Draws Players paid Prize pot
2024 Saudi Smash 2024 King Abdullah Sports City 4 159 $2,000,000$2.0m

A pot is what the week puts up in total, shared down every draw it runs. It is not the champion's cheque, and on an event with five draws it is not far off five champions' cheques plus everything underneath them.

Saudi Smash champions

Every draw of every edition, and what winning it paid

4 titles

Year Draw Champion Federation Prize
2024 Men's Singles Chuqin Wang China $65,000
2024 Women's Singles Meng Chen China $65,000
2024 Men's Doubles Long Ma & Chuqin Wang China $8,500
2024 Women's Doubles Meng Chen & Manyu Wang China $8,500

Where the Saudi Smash money ends up

Every cheque the event has written, by federation

41 federations

China $318k Japan $163k South Korea $157k Germany $138k Chinese Taipei $93k France $74k Sweden $50k Romania $49k Australia $48k Portugal $45k Hong Kong $44k India $38k Spain $29k Egypt $29k Saudi Arabia $28k

Where the Saudi Smash sits on the tour

Ranked 7 of 99 on prize money paid

# Event Tier Editions Span Paid out
01 Singapore Smash Grand Smash 5 2022 to 2026 $7,816,999$7.8m
02 WTT Champions Macao WTT Champions 5 2022 to 2026 $3,800,000$3.8m
03 China Smash Grand Smash 3 2024 to 2026 $3,344,266$3.3m
04 United States Smash Grand Smash 2 2025 to 2026 $2,953,225$3.0m
05 Europe Smash - Sweden Grand Smash 2 2025 to 2026 $2,578,215$2.6m
06 WTT Champions Chongqing WTT Champions 3 2024 to 2026 $2,271,500$2.3m
08 WTT Champions Frankfurt WTT Champions 4 2023 to 2026 $1,425,000$1.4m
09 WTT Champions Montpellier WTT Champions 3 2024 to 2026 $950,000
10 WTT Champions Yokohama WTT Champions 2 2025 to 2026 $950,000
11 WTT Cup Finals Xinxiang WTT Cup Finals 1 2022 $927,500
12 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana WTT Star Contender 4 2023 to 2026 $885,585
13 WTT Champions Incheon WTT Champions 2 2024 to 2025 $775,000
14 WTT Finals Hong Kong WTT Finals 1 2025 $761,000
15 WTT Champions Xinxiang WTT Champions 1 2023 $760,000
16 WTT Finals Fukuoka WTT Finals 1 2024 $665,000
17 WTT Star Contender Doha WTT Star Contender 3 2024 to 2026 $622,134
96 WTT Feeder Fort Lauderdale WTT Feeder 1 2022 $9,890
97 WTT Feeder Chennai WTT Feeder 1 2026 $0
98 WTT Feeder Linz WTT Feeder 1 2026 $0
99 WTT Star Contender Astana WTT Star Contender 1 2026 $0

Frequently asked questions

How much does the Saudi Smash winner get?

$65,000 at the richest edition on this site, out of a $2,000,000 pot. 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.

How many times has the Saudi Smash been played?

1 edition on this site, 2024, in Saudi.

Who has won the most money at the Saudi Smash?

Chuqin Wang of China, $69,250 across 2 editions and 2 titles.

Do the same players keep coming back to the Saudi Smash?

65 of the 159 players the event has paid have been paid at more than one edition of it.

Which country does the Saudi Smash money go to?

China takes the most of it, $317,550 across 1 edition, out of 41 federations paid here.

What is the Saudi Smash worth in total?

$2,000,000 across 1 edition that publish a pot.

Where to next

The editions, the players and the events around this one

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