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WTT Star Contender prize money

20 events between 2022 to 2026 , with $10,000 to the champion at the richest of them. The tier where the world top ten start appearing in numbers, and where the doubles draws pay properly.

The tour is a ladder, and this is one rung of it. What separates the rungs is not the format or the field: it is the cheque, and the gap between one tier and the next is wider than the gap between winning and losing a final at either of them.

TO THE CHAMPION $10k
PUT UP IN ALL $5.5m
EVENTS 20
PLAYERS PAID 528
SHARE OF THE TOUR 11.5%

The WTT Star Contender money list

Everyone the tier has paid, across every event in it

528 players

# Player Federation Titles Paid results Won at this tier
001 Hugo Calderano Brazil 4 13 $93,942
002 Miwa Harimoto Japan 8 25 $84,725
003 Hina Hayata Japan 7 22 $83,738
004 Felix Lebrun France 3 15 $62,646
005 Tomokazu Harimoto Japan 5 25 $61,950
006 Miyu Nagasaki Japan 2 23 $61,075
007 Miyuu Kihara Japan 2 21 $58,650
008 Satsuki Odo Japan 7 17 $56,734
009 Yubin Shin South Korea 2 31 $50,883
010 Cheonhui Joo South Korea 31 $49,308
011 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei 1 19 $46,000
012 Chuqin Wang China 5 9 $43,750
013 Shunsuke Togami Japan 3 20 $42,175
014 Yingsha Sun China 5 7 $41,750
015 Dang Qiu Germany 2 15 $41,550
016 Jonghoon Lim South Korea 5 29 $39,371
017 Alexis Lebrun France 1 21 $39,296
018 Junsung Oh South Korea 2 21 $38,721
019 Gaoyuan Lin China 3 13 $37,200
020 Jaehyun An South Korea 4 24 $35,975
021 Hitomi Sato Japan 1 15 $35,671
022 Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong 1 35 $33,784
023 Sakura Yokoi Japan 4 18 $32,971
024 Yuling Zhu Macao 1 4 $31,875
025 Nayeong Kim South Korea 24 $31,375
026 Qihao Zhou China 1 8 $30,600
027 Man Kuai China 4 18 $30,425
028 Honoka Hashimoto Japan 1 7 $29,850
029 Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong 32 $29,634
030 Jingkun Liang China 2 14 $28,825
031 Shidong Lin China 3 15 $28,750
032 Woojin Jang South Korea 2 17 $28,450
033 Thibault Poret France 1 13 $28,325
034 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany 11 $26,600
035 Yidi Wang China 3 6 $26,500
036 Miu Hirano Japan 11 $25,875
037 Meng Chen China 1 6 $25,400
038 Hiroto Shinozuka Japan 1 17 $24,975
039 Darko Jorgic Slovenia 17 $24,850
040 Daeseong Cho South Korea 2 23 $24,388
041 Adriana Diaz Puerto Rico 12 $23,700
042 Xingtong Chen China 4 8 $23,650
043 Manika Batra India 24 $23,500
044 Manav Thakkar India 27 $23,246
045 Benedikt Duda Germany 1 14 $23,075
046 Jihee Jeon South Korea 2 19 $23,000
047 Manyu Wang China 3 10 $22,800
048 Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei 11 $22,150
049 Yukiya Uda Japan 16 $22,075
050 Mima Ito Japan 1 8 $21,613
051 Bernadette Szocs Romania 21 $21,600
052 Flavien Coton France 1 10 $20,575
053 Sora Matsushima Japan 1 15 $20,575
054 Lubomir Jancarik Czechia 1 4 $20,250
055 Kristian Karlsson Sweden 1 19 $20,200
056 Tomislav Pucar Croatia 15 $19,950
057 Prithika Pavade France 16 $19,475
058 Tianyi Qian China 1 12 $18,888
059 Manush Shah India 24 $18,846
060 Nina Mittelham Germany 13 $18,775
061 Long Ma China 7 $18,750
062 Quadri Aruna Nigeria 11 $18,700
063 Jian Zeng Singapore 18 $18,625
064 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco 9 $18,350
065 Simon Gauzy France 16 $18,275
066 Eunhye Lee South Korea 16 $18,138
067 Adina Diaconu Romania 23 $18,075
068 Maria Xiao Spain 23 $17,900
069 Yi Chen China 11 $17,850
070 Jonathan Groth Denmark 7 $17,075
071 Peng Xiang China 2 13 $16,937
072 Patrick Franziska Germany 12 $16,775
073 Truls Moregard Sweden 10 $16,750
074 Wing Lam Ng Hong Kong 22 $16,683
075 Baldwin Chan Hong Kong 1 18 $16,446
076 Bruna Takahashi Brazil 13 $16,292
077 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India 20 $15,988
078 Elizabeta Samara Romania 18 $15,875
079 Xunyao Shi China 1 10 $15,550
080 Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong 22 $15,537
081 Jia Nan Yuan France 17 $15,050
082 Ganghyeon Park South Korea 13 $14,650
083 Alvaro Robles Spain 15 $14,450
084 Hyo Won Suh South Korea 10 $14,300
085 Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand 16 $14,250
086 Liam Pitchford England 16 $14,150
087 Seungmin Cho South Korea 1 13 $14,150
088 Sang Su Lee South Korea 1 17 $14,150
089 Ruibo Wen China 4 $14,092
090 Yuta Tanaka Japan 11 $14,050
091 Zhendong Fan China 1 3 $13,750
092 Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei 1 10 $13,700
093 Hyojoo Choi South Korea 15 $13,383
094 Harmeet Desai India 18 $13,338
095 Barbora Varady Slovakia 19 $13,075
096 Anton Kallberg Sweden 1 7 $12,900
097 Licen Yuan China 1 11 $12,550
098 Zion Lee South Korea 14 $12,475
099 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei 14 $12,450
100 Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei 12 $12,400
101 Andreea Dragoman Romania 15 $12,375
102 Izaac Quek Singapore 16 $11,871
103 Yashaswini Ghorpade India 19 $11,825
104 Jieni Shao Portugal 11 $11,825
105 Zhuojia He China 9 $11,725
106 Omar Assar Egypt 9 $11,700
107 Cheng-Jui Kao Chinese Taipei 11 $11,500
108 Natalia Bajor Poland 15 $11,275
109 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei 10 $11,250
110 Hanna Ryu South Korea 11 $11,167
111 Andrej Gacina Croatia 9 $11,150
112 Ha Eun Yang South Korea 11 $11,100
113 Guan-Hong Kuo Chinese Taipei 1 7 $11,063
114 Orawan Paranang Thailand 14 $10,950
115 Lilian Bardet France 13 $10,862
116 Diya Chitale India 17 $10,625
117 Saki Shibata Japan 8 $10,546
118 Jules Rolland France 15 $10,488
119 Gyuhyeon Park South Korea 11 $10,437
120 Snehit Suravajjula India 13 $10,400
121 Sreeja Akula India 11 $10,350
122 Christina Kallberg Sweden 15 $10,250
123 Lily Zhang United States 9 $10,200
124 Anna Hursey Wales 11 $9,925
125 Sharath Achanta India 12 $9,900
126 Siu Hang Lam Hong Kong 17 $9,875
127 Mizuki Oikawa Japan 12 $9,875
128 Sofia Polcanova Austria 11 $9,800
129 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia 16 $9,750
130 Anders Lind Denmark 7 $9,400
131 Ryoichi Yoshiyama Japan 9 $9,225
132 Youzheng Huang China 7 $8,967
133 Sutirtha Mukherjee India 14 $8,725
134 Linda Bergstrom Sweden 10 $8,700
135 Yingbin Xu China 1 8 $8,575
136 Cheng-Ting Liao Chinese Taipei 8 $8,550
137 Kay Stumper Germany 7 $8,500
138 Leo De Nodrest France 10 $8,488
139 Yangzi Liu Australia 9 $8,413
140 Mattias Karlsson Sweden 9 $8,350
141 Joao Geraldo Portugal 8 $8,300
142 Payas Jain India 12 $8,263
143 Yi-Hua Huang Chinese Taipei 10 $8,100
144 Xia Lian Ni Luxembourg 8 $8,100
145 Geman Zong China 7 $7,784
146 Swastika Ghosh India 9 $7,763
147 Yuan Wan Germany 7 $7,750
148 Yan-Cheng Huang Chinese Taipei 8 $7,712
149 Joe Seyfried France 7 $7,584
150 Kwan To Yiu Hong Kong 15 $7,575
151 Sachi Aoki Japan 1 5 $7,513
152 Ayhika Mukherjee India 13 $7,400
153 Ying Han Germany 5 $7,400
154 Eduard Ionescu Romania 7 $7,375
155 Deni Kozul Slovenia 11 $7,350
156 Maharu Yoshimura Japan 7 $7,300
157 Xiaona Shan Germany 10 $7,300
158 Milosz Redzimski Poland 4 $7,275
159 Andre Bertelsmeier Germany 7 $7,188
160 Fu Yu Portugal 6 $7,125
161 Minhyung Jee Australia 9 $7,050
162 Elizabet Abraamian Neutral Athletes 7 $6,962
163 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan 6 $6,900
164 Weishan Liu China 6 $6,875
165 Yee Lok Lam Hong Kong 9 $6,700
166 Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg 7 $6,612
167 Kwan Kit Ho Hong Kong 15 $6,600
168 Sabine Winter Germany 7 $6,562
169 Jinbao Ma United States 5 $6,550
170 Yu-Jie Huang Chinese Taipei 6 $6,500
171 Vladimir Sidorenko Neutral Athletes 3 $6,450
172 Vincent Picard France 8 $6,434
173 Tom Jarvis England 8 $6,387
174 Hwan Bae Australia 7 $6,350
175 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium 11 $6,325
176 Yerin Yoo South Korea 7 $6,300
177 Yuxuan Qin China 6 $6,284
178 Yuanyu Chen China 6 $6,275
179 Kaho Akae Japan 1 3 $6,100
180 Koen Pang Singapore 11 $6,071
181 Fei Xue China 6 $6,050
182 Dongsoo Kang South Korea 7 $6,000
183 Yi-Tian Yeh Chinese Taipei 5 $5,850
184 Hsing-Yin Liu Chinese Taipei 6 $5,850
185 Paul Drinkhall England 9 $5,750
186 Robert Gardos Austria 8 $5,700
187 Ho Ching Lee Hong Kong 8 $5,700
188 Wim Verdonschot Germany 6 $5,688
189 Kasumi Ishikawa Japan 3 $5,650
190 Florian Bourrassaud France 9 $5,562
191 Lubomir Pistej Slovakia 11 $5,550
192 Ricardo Walther Germany 5 $5,500
193 Timo Boll Germany 4 $5,400
194 Ana Tofant Slovenia 10 $5,375
195 Marcos Freitas Portugal 4 $5,350
196 Tiago Apolonia Portugal 5 $5,300
197 Kanak Jha United States 5 $5,275
198 Martin Allegro Belgium 9 $5,225
199 Suhana Saini India 9 $5,200
200 Kazuhiro Yoshimura Japan 4 $5,000
201 Xiangyu Zhang China 1 3 $4,950
202 Dina Meshref Egypt 5 $4,925
203 Esteban Dorr France 6 $4,900
204 Ruwen Filus Germany 4 $4,900
205 Satoshi Aida Japan 7 $4,800
206 Emmanuel Lebesson France 7 $4,750
207 Leonardo Iizuka Brazil 6 $4,688
208 Camille Lutz France 9 $4,625
209 Yiyun Yang China 4 $4,575
210 Hana Goda Egypt 4 $4,500
211 Charlotte Lutz France 7 $4,475
212 Guilherme Teodoro Brazil 5 $4,462
213 Ankur Bhattacharjee India 6 $4,387
214 Ovidiu Ionescu Romania 5 $4,350
215 Sara Tokic Slovenia 8 $4,150
216 Hayeong Kim South Korea 4 $4,150
217 Finn Luu Australia 5 $4,125
218 Filippa Bergand Sweden 6 $4,025
219 Taneesha Kotecha India 6 $4,025
220 Yanning Liang China 3 $4,000
221 Annett Kaufmann Germany 4 $3,962
222 Peter Hribar Slovenia 8 $3,950
223 Margaryta Pesotska Ukraine 4 $3,950
224 Kazuki Hamada Japan 3 $3,950
225 Yang Wang Slovakia 4 $3,950
226 Seongjin Kim South Korea 5 $3,825
227 Tsz Tung Su Hong Kong 6 $3,750
228 Audrey Zarif France 6 $3,750
229 Daniela Ortega Chile 5 $3,725
230 Franziska Schreiner Germany 4 $3,700
231 Jingyi Zhou Singapore 7 $3,700
232 Junsong Chen China 4 $3,663
233 Paulina Vega Chile 5 $3,650
234 Feier Han China 5 $3,650
235 Sibel Altinkaya Turkey 5 $3,650
236 Jing-Kai Hung Chinese Taipei 4 $3,625
237 Mohammed Abdulwahhab Qatar 6 $3,625
238 Gustavo Gomez Chile 5 $3,600
239 Hoi Man Lee Hong Kong 7 $3,600
240 Giorgia Piccolin Italy 4 $3,575
241 Debora Vivarelli Italy 3 $3,550
242 Nicolas Burgos Chile 5 $3,525
243 Victoria Strassburger Brazil 5 $3,525
244 Man Ho Kwan Hong Kong 6 $3,500
245 Giulia Takahashi Brazil 5 $3,450
246 Laura Watanabe Brazil 5 $3,450
247 Valentina Rios Chile 5 $3,450
248 Luka Mladenovic Luxembourg 4 $3,425
249 Anirban Ghosh India 5 $3,425
250 Aia Mohamed Qatar 5 $3,425
251 John Oyebode Italy 4 $3,400
252 Shuhan Fan China 2 $3,350
253 Seoyun Kim South Korea 4 $3,300
254 Xiaotong Wang China 3 $3,263
255 Darius Movileanu Romania 4 $3,225
256 Archana Girish Kamath India 5 $3,200
257 Bence Majoros Hungary 3 $3,200
258 Youssef Abdelaziz Egypt 4 $3,188
259 Lin Qian Ser Singapore 5 $3,175
260 Dora Madarasz Hungary 5 $3,100
261 Rui Zhang China 3 $3,100
262 Asuka Sasao Japan 3 $3,050
263 Vitor Ishiy Brazil 5 $3,000
264 Felipe Arado Brazil 5 $2,975
265 Nicholas Lum Australia 4 $2,975
266 Hana Matelova Czechia 4 $2,950
267 Mo Zhang Canada 3 $2,925
268 Sofia Vega Chile 4 $2,925
269 Nithya Mani India 4 $2,925
270 Tin-Tin Ho England 5 $2,925
271 Ibrahima Diaw Denmark 3 $2,900
272 Hana Arapovic Croatia 4 $2,900
273 Hsien-Tzu Cheng Chinese Taipei 3 $2,900
274 Elias Ranefur Sweden 2 $2,850
275 Edward Ly Canada 4 $2,800
276 Divyanshi Bhowmick India 4 $2,775
277 Vlada Voronina Neutral Athletes 3 $2,763
278 Padasak Tanviriyavechakul Thailand 4 $2,750
279 Daniel Habesohn Austria 4 $2,750
280 Samuel Kulczycki Poland 5 $2,725
281 Georgina Pota Hungary 3 $2,700
282 Beatriz Fiore Brazil 4 $2,650
283 Isabel Amorim Brazil 4 $2,650
284 Noshad Alamiyan Iran 3 $2,650
285 Gahyeon Park South Korea 2 $2,600
286 Kavya Bhatt India 3 $2,575
287 Rogelio Castro Mexico 4 $2,525
288 Britt Eerland Netherlands 2 $2,500
289 Alexandre Cassin France 2 $2,500
290 Haruna Ojio Japan 2 $2,500
291 Sofia Kano Brazil 4 $2,450
292 Jessica Prates Brazil 4 $2,450
293 Agnone Maiara Brazil 4 $2,450
294 Karina Shiray Brazil 4 $2,450
295 Minhyeok Kim South Korea 3 $2,425
296 Taehyun Kim Malta 4 $2,400
297 Yi Xu China 2 $2,350
298 Izabela Lupulesku Serbia 4 $2,300
299 Samuel Walker England 5 $2,300
300 Yu-Han Peng Chinese Taipei 1 $2,250

The table stops at 300 names. The other 228 players the tier has paid are on the full money list and on the event pages that paid them.

What a WTT Star Contender pays, round by round

The ladder at the WTT Star Contender Astana 2026, the richest edition in the set

12 rungs

Place Draws it applies to Ranking points Prize
Champion Singles 600 $17,000
Finalist Singles 420 $9,025
Champion Doubles 600 $5,500
Semifinals Singles 270 $4,250
Finalist Doubles 420 $3,567
Quarterfinals Singles 175 $2,250
Semifinals Doubles 270 $2,125
Round of 16 Singles 115 $1,500
Quarterfinals Doubles 70 $1,200
Round of 32 Singles 30 $1,100
Round of 48 Singles 5 $900
Round of 16 Doubles 5 $650
Champion $17k
Finalist $9,025
Champion $5,500
Semifinals $4,250
Finalist $3,567
Quarterfinals $2,250
Semifinals $2,125
Round of 16 $1,500
Quarterfinals $1,200
Round of 32 $1,100
Round of 48 $900
Round of 16 $650

The WTT Star Contender against every other tier

What a champion takes at each rung of the tour

2x a WTT Contender champion

Grand Smash $100k WTT Finals $40k WTT Cup Finals $55k WTT Champions $40k
WTT Star Contender $10k
WTT Contender $5,000 WTT Feeder $1,000 Youth Smash $2,000

This is the fact that decides a table tennis career. Two players can win the same number of titles in the same year and finish the season with figures an order of magnitude apart, because one of them was winning them here and the other was winning them a rung or two down.

Every WTT Star Contender event

Richest week first

20 events

Year Event Venue Draws Players paid Prize pot
2026 WTT Star Contender Astana Martial Arts Palace 0 $300,000
2026 WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos Vale Sul Shopping 5 102 $300,000
2026 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana Hala Tivoli 4 115 $300,000
2026 WTT Star Contender Chennai Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University 4 109 $300,000
2026 WTT Star Contender Doha Lusail Sports Arena 4 113 $300,000
2025 WTT Star Contender Muscat Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex 4 110 $300,000
2025 WTT Star Contender London Copper Box Arena 4 114 $300,000
2025 WTT Star Contender Foz do Iguaçu Rafain Convention Center 4 95 $300,000
2025 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana Hala Tivoli 5 126 $300,000
2025 WTT Star Contender Chennai Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium 4 107 $275,000
2025 WTT Star Contender Doha Lusail Sports Arena 4 129 $275,000
2024 WTT Star Contender Bangkok Huamark Indoor Stadium 5 112 $250,000
2024 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana Hala Tivoli 4 126 $250,000
2024 WTT Star Contender Goa Peddem Indoor Stadium 4 113 $250,000
2024 WTT Star Contender Doha Lusail Sports Arena 4 118 $250,000
2023 WTT Star Contender Lanzhou Lanzhou Olympic Center Tulip Complex 5 107 $250,000
2023 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana Hala Tivoli 5 133 $250,000
2023 WTT Star Contender Bangkok Huamark Indoor Stadium 5 121 $250,000
2023 WTT Star Contender Goa Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium 5 124 $250,000
2022 WTT Star Contender European Summer Series BOK Hall 5 122 $250,000

Who wins the WTT Star Contender money

Every cheque at this tier, by federation

60 federations

Japan $759k China $572k South Korea $491k France $285k India $250k Germany $207k Chinese Taipei $203k Brazil $170k Hong Kong $165k Romania $91k Sweden $86k Slovenia $52k Singapore $50k Portugal $40k Croatia $38k

Frequently asked questions

How much does a WTT Star Contender winner get?

$10,000 at the richest edition, which is 2 times what a WTT Contender champion takes.

What is a WTT Star Contender event?

The tier where the world top ten start appearing in numbers, and where the doubles draws pay properly.

How many WTT Star Contender events are there?

20 between 2022 to 2026, putting up $5,500,000 between them, which is 11.5% of everything the tour has put up.

Who has won the most WTT Star Contender prize money?

Hugo Calderano of Brazil, $93,942 across 13 paid results and 4 titles.

What sits above the WTT Star Contender on the tour?

WTT Champions, where the champion takes $40,000. 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.

Which country wins the WTT Star Contender money?

Japan, $758,759 of it, out of 60 federations paid at this tier.

Where to next

The events at this tier, and the rungs either side

WTT Star Contender events

The weeks themselves

Players paid at this tier

The rest of the tour