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WTT CHAMPIONS · 2022

WTT Champions European Summer Series 2022 prize money

A $500,000 week in BOK Hall, 2022-07-18 to 2022-07-23. The champion takes $30,000, 6% 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 $500k
TO THE CHAMPION $30k
DRAWS 2
PLAYERS PAID 64
FEDERATIONS 26

The 2022 WTT Champions European Summer Series at a glance

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

Tier
WTT Champions
Venue
BOK Hall
Played
2022-07-18 to 2022-07-23
Prize pot
$500,000
Champion's cheque
$30,000
Editions of this event
1

The prize ladder

What each place is worth, as published

6 rungs

Place Draws it applies to Ranking points Prize
Winner the cheque every draw is played for Singles 1,000 $30,000
Finalist Singles 700 $20,000
Semi-Finalist Singles 350 $15,000
Quarter-Finalist Singles 175 $9,375
Round of 16 Singles 90 $6,500
Round of 32 Singles 15 $4,250

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 7x the bottom

Winner $30k
Finalist $20k
Semi-Finalist $15k
Quarter-Finalist $9,375
Round of 16 $6,500
Round of 32 $4,250

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

6 rungs paid

Round of 32 (32) $136k
Round of 16 (16) $104k
Quarterfinals (8) $75k
Champion (2) $60k
Semifinals (4) $60k
Finalist (2) $40k

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

2 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.

Men's Singles32 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Tomokazu Harimoto Japan $30,000
Finalist Gaoyuan Lin China $20,000
Semifinals Patrick Franziska Germany $15,000
Semifinals Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei $15,000
Quarterfinals Jonghoon Lim South Korea $9,375
Quarterfinals Darko Jorgic Slovenia $9,375
Quarterfinals Yukiya Uda Japan $9,375
Quarterfinals Jingkun Liang China $9,375
Round of 16 Hugo Calderano Brazil $6,500
Round of 16 Long Ma China $6,500
Round of 16 Timo Boll Germany $6,500
Round of 16 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan $6,500
Round of 16 Kristian Karlsson Sweden $6,500
Round of 16 Alexis Lebrun France $6,500
Round of 16 Dang Qiu Germany $6,500
Round of 16 Marcos Freitas Portugal $6,500
Round of 32 Liam Pitchford England $4,250
Round of 32 Kanak Jha United States $4,250
Round of 32 Bence Majoros Hungary $4,250
Round of 32 Truls Moregard Sweden $4,250
Round of 32 Sangsu Lee South Korea $4,250
Round of 32 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany $4,250
Round of 32 Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei $4,250
Round of 32 Chuqin Wang China $4,250
Round of 32 Omar Assar Egypt $4,250
Round of 32 Anton Kallberg Sweden $4,250
Round of 32 Andrej Gacina Croatia $4,250
Round of 32 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India $4,250
Round of 32 Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong $4,250
Round of 32 Quadri Aruna Nigeria $4,250
Round of 32 Simon Gauzy France $4,250
Round of 32 Robert Gardos Austria $4,250

Women's Singles32 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Manyu Wang China $30,000
Finalist Yidi Wang China $20,000
Semifinals Yingsha Sun China $15,000
Semifinals Meng Chen China $15,000
Quarterfinals Miyuu Kihara Japan $9,375
Quarterfinals Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong $9,375
Quarterfinals Mima Ito Japan $9,375
Quarterfinals Hina Hayata Japan $9,375
Round of 16 Bernadette Szocs Romania $6,500
Round of 16 Sofia Polcanova Austria $6,500
Round of 16 Fu Yu Portugal $6,500
Round of 16 Xingtong Chen China $6,500
Round of 16 Lily Zhang United States $6,500
Round of 16 Xiaona Shan Germany $6,500
Round of 16 Kasumi Ishikawa Japan $6,500
Round of 16 Margaryta Pesotska Ukraine $6,500
Round of 32 Adriana Diaz Puerto Rico $4,250
Round of 32 Hana Matelova Czechia $4,250
Round of 32 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei $4,250
Round of 32 Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand $4,250
Round of 32 Hyowon Suh South Korea $4,250
Round of 32 Jihee Jeon South Korea $4,250
Round of 32 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei $4,250
Round of 32 Nina Mittelham Germany $4,250
Round of 32 Bruna Takahashi Brazil $4,250
Round of 32 Petrissa Solja Germany $4,250
Round of 32 Georgina Pota Hungary $4,250
Round of 32 Hana Goda Egypt $4,250
Round of 32 Jia Nan Yuan France $4,250
Round of 32 Elizabeta Samara Romania $4,250
Round of 32 Ying Han Germany $4,250
Round of 32 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco $4,250

The 2022 WTT Champions European Summer Series money list

Every player the week paid, richest first

64 players

# Player Federation How far they got Won here
01 Tomokazu Harimoto Japan Men's Singles champion $30,000
02 Manyu Wang China Women's Singles champion $30,000
03 Gaoyuan Lin China Men's Singles finalist $20,000
04 Yidi Wang China Women's Singles finalist $20,000
05 Patrick Franziska Germany Men's Singles semifinals $15,000
06 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei Men's Singles semifinals $15,000
07 Yingsha Sun China Women's Singles semifinals $15,000
08 Meng Chen China Women's Singles semifinals $15,000
09 Jonghoon Lim South Korea Men's Singles quarterfinals $9,375
10 Darko Jorgic Slovenia Men's Singles quarterfinals $9,375
11 Yukiya Uda Japan Men's Singles quarterfinals $9,375
12 Jingkun Liang China Men's Singles quarterfinals $9,375
13 Miyuu Kihara Japan Women's Singles quarterfinals $9,375
14 Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong Women's Singles quarterfinals $9,375
15 Mima Ito Japan Women's Singles quarterfinals $9,375
16 Hina Hayata Japan Women's Singles quarterfinals $9,375
17 Hugo Calderano Brazil Men's Singles round of 16 $6,500
18 Long Ma China Men's Singles round of 16 $6,500
19 Timo Boll Germany Men's Singles round of 16 $6,500
20 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan Men's Singles round of 16 $6,500
21 Kristian Karlsson Sweden Men's Singles round of 16 $6,500
22 Alexis Lebrun France Men's Singles round of 16 $6,500
23 Dang Qiu Germany Men's Singles round of 16 $6,500
24 Marcos Freitas Portugal Men's Singles round of 16 $6,500
25 Bernadette Szocs Romania Women's Singles round of 16 $6,500
26 Sofia Polcanova Austria Women's Singles round of 16 $6,500
27 Fu Yu Portugal Women's Singles round of 16 $6,500
28 Xingtong Chen China Women's Singles round of 16 $6,500
29 Lily Zhang United States Women's Singles round of 16 $6,500
30 Xiaona Shan Germany Women's Singles round of 16 $6,500
31 Kasumi Ishikawa Japan Women's Singles round of 16 $6,500
32 Margaryta Pesotska Ukraine Women's Singles round of 16 $6,500
33 Liam Pitchford England Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
34 Kanak Jha United States Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
35 Bence Majoros Hungary Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
36 Truls Moregard Sweden Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
37 Sangsu Lee South Korea Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
38 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
39 Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
40 Chuqin Wang China Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
41 Omar Assar Egypt Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
42 Anton Kallberg Sweden Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
43 Andrej Gacina Croatia Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
44 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
45 Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
46 Quadri Aruna Nigeria Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
47 Simon Gauzy France Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
48 Robert Gardos Austria Men's Singles round of 32 $4,250
49 Adriana Diaz Puerto Rico Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
50 Hana Matelova Czechia Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
51 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
52 Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
53 Hyowon Suh South Korea Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
54 Jihee Jeon South Korea Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
55 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
56 Nina Mittelham Germany Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
57 Bruna Takahashi Brazil Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
58 Petrissa Solja Germany Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
59 Georgina Pota Hungary Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
60 Hana Goda Egypt Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
61 Jia Nan Yuan France Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
62 Elizabeta Samara Romania Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
63 Ying Han Germany Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250
64 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco Women's Singles round of 32 $4,250

Which federations took the money home

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

26 federations paid

China $127k Japan $74k Germany $51k Chinese Taipei $28k South Korea $22k Sweden $15k France $15k Hong Kong $14k Portugal $13k Brazil $11k Romania $11k Austria $11k United States $11k Slovenia $9,375 Hungary $8,500

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
2022 WTT Feeder Düsseldorf II WTT Feeder 28 $20,000
2022 Singapore Smash Grand Smash 212 $2,000,000$2.0m
2022 WTT Star Contender European Summer Series WTT Star Contender 122 $250,000
2022 WTT Feeder European Summer Series WTT Feeder 137 -
2022 WTT Contender Tunis WTT Contender 99 $75,000
2022 WTT Feeder Olomouc WTT Feeder 147 $40,000
2022 WTT Feeder Panagyurishte Presented by Asarel WTT Feeder 138 $40,000
2022 WTT Contender Muscat WTT Contender 85 $75,000
2022 WTT Contender Almaty WTT Contender 91 $75,000
2022 WTT Champions Macao WTT Champions 64 $800,000
2022 WTT Cup Finals Xinxiang WTT Cup Finals 31 $1,000,000
2022 WTT Contender Nova Gorica WTT Contender 107 $75,000
2022 WTT Feeder Fort Lauderdale WTT Feeder 63 $20,000
2026 WTT Feeder Bangkok WTT Feeder 0 $30,000
2026 WTT Star Contender Astana WTT Star Contender 0 $300,000
2026 WTT Feeder Linz WTT Feeder 0 $30,000
2026 China Smash Grand Smash 0 $2,050,000$2.0m
2026 WTT Champions Montpellier WTT Champions 0 $500,000
2026 WTT Feeder Chennai WTT Feeder 0 $30,000
2026 WTT Champions Frankfurt WTT Champions 0 $500,000

Frequently asked questions

How much does the WTT Champions European Summer Series 2022 winner get?

$30,000, out of a $500,000 pot. That is 6% of the week's prize money on one cheque.

What is the total prize money at the WTT Champions European Summer Series 2022?

$500,000 across 2 draws, played in BOK Hall between 2022-07-18 to 2022-07-23.

Who won the WTT Champions European Summer Series 2022?

Tomokazu Harimoto took the men's singles and $30,000. Manyu Wang took the women's singles and $30,000.

How far down the draw does the money go at the WTT Champions European Summer Series?

To round of 32, which pays $4,250. The ladder has 6 rungs on it, and $30,000 at the top is 7 times the bottom one.

How many players got paid at the WTT Champions European Summer Series 2022?

64, from 26 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 WTT Champions European Summer Series?

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.

Where to next

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

Players paid at the 2022 WTT Champions European Summer Series

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