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WTT CONTENDER · 2023

WTT Contender Almaty 2023 prize money

A $75,000 week in Table Tennis Centre ADD, 2023-08-29 to 2023-09-03. The champion takes $5,000, 6.7% 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 $75k
TO THE CHAMPION $5k
DRAWS 5
PLAYERS PAID 97
FEDERATIONS 24

The 2023 WTT Contender Almaty at a glance

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

Tier
WTT Contender
Venue
Table Tennis Centre ADD
Played
2023-08-29 to 2023-09-03
Prize pot
$75,000
Champion's cheque
$5,000
Editions of this event
5

The prize ladder

What each place is worth, as published

13 rungs

Place Draws it applies to Ranking points Prize
Winner the cheque every draw is played for Singles 400 $5,000
Final Singles 280 $2,500
Semifinals Singles 140 $1,500
Quarterfinals Singles 70 $1,025
Winner Doubles, Mixed Doubles 400 $1,000
Final Mixed Doubles 280 $800
Final Doubles 280 $725
Round of 16 Singles 35 $700
Semifinals Mixed Doubles 140 $500
Semifinals Doubles 140 $450
Round of 32 Singles 4 $450
Quarterfinals Doubles, Mixed Doubles 70 $300
Round of 16 Doubles, Mixed Doubles 4 $200

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 25x the bottom

Winner $5,000
Final $2,500
Semifinals $1,500
Quarterfinals $1,025
Winner $1,000
Final $800
Final $725
Round of 16 $700
Semifinals $500
Semifinals $450
Round of 32 $450
Quarterfinals $300

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 16 (40) $17k
Round of 32 (32) $14k
Champion (5) $13k
Quarterfinals (19) $11k
Semifinals (10) $8,800
Finalist (5) $7,250

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

5 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 Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei $5,000
Finalist Peng Xiang China $2,500
Semifinals Marcos Freitas Portugal $1,500
Semifinals Truls Moregard Sweden $1,500
Quarterfinals Yanning Liang China $1,025
Quarterfinals Darko Jorgic Slovenia $1,025
Quarterfinals Tomislav Pucar Croatia $1,025
Round of 16 Patrick Franziska Germany $700
Round of 16 Liam Pitchford England $700
Round of 16 Kristian Karlsson Sweden $700
Round of 16 Ruwen Filus Germany $700
Round of 16 Yang Wang Slovakia $700
Round of 16 Mizuki Oikawa Japan $700
Round of 16 Benedikt Duda Germany $700
Round of 16 Tiago Apolonia Portugal $700
Round of 16 Mohamed El-Beiali Egypt $700
Round of 32 Ovidiu Ionescu Romania $450
Round of 32 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan $450
Round of 32 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany $450
Round of 32 Alexis Lebrun France $450
Round of 32 Seungmin Cho South Korea $450
Round of 32 Eduard Ionescu Romania $450
Round of 32 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei $450
Round of 32 Jonathan Groth Denmark $450
Round of 32 Andrej Gacina Croatia $450
Round of 32 Lilian Bardet France $450
Round of 32 Omar Assar Egypt $450
Round of 32 Quadri Aruna Nigeria $450
Round of 32 Yingbin Xu China $450
Round of 32 Mihai Bobocica Italy $450
Round of 32 Can Akkuzu France $450
Round of 32 Sang Su Lee South Korea $450

Women's Singles32 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Man Kuai China $5,000
Finalist Siqi Fan China $2,500
Semifinals Nina Mittelham Germany $1,500
Semifinals Xunyao Shi China $1,500
Quarterfinals Sibing Zhu China $1,025
Quarterfinals Hyojoo Choi South Korea $1,025
Quarterfinals Jia Nan Yuan France $1,025
Quarterfinals Yake Li China $1,025
Round of 16 Andreea Dragoman Romania $700
Round of 16 Elizabeta Samara Romania $700
Round of 16 Yi Chen China $700
Round of 16 Hsing-Yin Liu Chinese Taipei $700
Round of 16 Sarvinoz Mirkadirova Kazakhstan $700
Round of 16 Cheonhui Joo South Korea $700
Round of 16 Xiaotong Wang China $700
Round of 16 Zion Lee South Korea $700
Round of 32 Jieni Shao Portugal $450
Round of 32 Weishan Liu China $450
Round of 32 Natalia Bajor Poland $450
Round of 32 Yousra Helmy Egypt $450
Round of 32 Bernadette Szocs Romania $450
Round of 32 Siwoo Yoo South Korea $450
Round of 32 Prithika Pavade France $450
Round of 32 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia $450
Round of 32 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei $450
Round of 32 Adina Diaconu Romania $450
Round of 32 Zauresh Akasheva Kazakhstan $450
Round of 32 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco $450
Round of 32 Xiaona Shan Germany $450
Round of 32 Fu Yu Portugal $450
Round of 32 Nayeong Kim South Korea $450
Round of 32 Yi-Hua Huang Chinese Taipei $450

Men's Doubles15 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Shidong Lin & Yingbin Xu China $1,000
Finalist Seungmin Cho & Sang Su Lee South Korea $725
Semifinals Wen Sun & Haidong Xu China $450
Semifinals Felix Lebrun & Can Akkuzu France $450
Quarterfinals Mizuki Oikawa & Kazuhiro Yoshimura Japan $300
Quarterfinals Florent Lambiet & Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium $300
Quarterfinals Youssef Abdel-Aziz & Khalid Assar Egypt $300
Quarterfinals Dongsoo Kang & Chan-Hyeok Park South Korea $300
Round of 16 Aidos Kenzhigulov & Iskender Kharki Kazakhstan $200
Round of 16 Hugo Deschamps & Vladislav Zakharov France $200
Round of 16 Khalid Alshareif & Turki Almutairi Saudi Arabia $200
Round of 16 Eduard Ionescu & Darius Movileanu Romania $200
Round of 16 Kirill Gerassimenko & Alan Kurmangaliyev Kazakhstan $200
Round of 16 Cheng-Ting Liao & Yan-Cheng Huang Chinese Taipei $200
Round of 16 Yanning Liang & Peng Xiang China $200

Women's Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Yi Chen & Man Kuai China $1,000
Finalist Weishan Liu & Siqi Fan China $725
Semifinals Seoyun Kim & Hayeong Kim South Korea $450
Semifinals Nayeong Kim & Zion Lee South Korea $450
Quarterfinals Xunyao Shi & Sibing Zhu China $300
Quarterfinals Nina Mittelham & Xiaona Shan Germany $300
Quarterfinals Hyobin Yoon & Hyunju Sim South Korea $300
Quarterfinals Szu-Yu Chen & Yi-Hua Huang Chinese Taipei $300
Round of 16 Natalia Bajor & Tatiana Kukulkova Poland $200
Round of 16 Zauresh Akasheva & Anastassiya Lavrova Kazakhstan $200
Round of 16 Hyojoo Choi & Cheonhui Joo South Korea $200
Round of 16 Angelina Romanovskaya & Anel Bakhyt Kazakhstan $200
Round of 16 Elizabeta Samara & Andreea Dragoman Romania $200
Round of 16 Mariam Alhodaby & Yousra Helmy Egypt $200
Round of 16 Jia Nan Yuan & Prithika Pavade France $200
Round of 16 Marina Donner & Sarvinoz Mirkadirova Finland $200

Mixed Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Daeseong Cho & Cheonhui Joo South Korea $1,000
Finalist Yun-Ju Lin & Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei $800
Semifinals Alexis Lebrun & Jia Nan Yuan France $500
Semifinals Peng Xiang & Weishan Liu China $500
Quarterfinals Ovidiu Ionescu & Bernadette Szocs Romania $300
Quarterfinals Khalid Assar & Yousra Helmy Egypt $300
Quarterfinals Chan-Hyeok Park & Hyobin Yoon South Korea $300
Quarterfinals Alan Kurmangaliyev & Sarvinoz Mirkadirova Kazakhstan $300
Round of 16 Eduard Ionescu & Elizabeta Samara Romania $200
Round of 16 Iskender Kharki & Angelina Romanovskaya Kazakhstan $200
Round of 16 Felix Lebrun & Prithika Pavade France $200
Round of 16 Dongsoo Kang & Hyunju Sim South Korea $200
Round of 16 Shidong Lin & Man Kuai China $200
Round of 16 Yang Wang & Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia $200
Round of 16 Aidos Kenzhigulov & Zauresh Akasheva Kazakhstan $200
Round of 16 Anirban Ghosh & Swastika Ghosh India $200

The 2023 WTT Contender Almaty money list

Every player the week paid, richest first

97 players

# Player Federation How far they got Won here
01 Man Kuai China Women's Singles champion, Women's Doubles champion, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $5,600
02 Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei Men's Singles champion, Mixed Doubles finalist $5,400
03 Siqi Fan China Women's Singles finalist, Women's Doubles finalist $2,863
04 Peng Xiang China Men's Singles finalist, Mixed Doubles semifinals, Men's Doubles round of 16 $2,850
05 Nina Mittelham Germany Women's Singles semifinals, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $1,650
06 Xunyao Shi China Women's Singles semifinals, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $1,650
07 Marcos Freitas Portugal Men's Singles semifinals $1,500
08 Truls Moregard Sweden Men's Singles semifinals $1,500
09 Jia Nan Yuan France Women's Singles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles semifinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,375
10 Cheonhui Joo South Korea Mixed Doubles champion, Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,300
11 Yi Chen China Women's Doubles champion, Women's Singles round of 16 $1,200
12 Sibing Zhu China Women's Singles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $1,175
13 Yanning Liang China Men's Singles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles round of 16 $1,125
14 Hyojoo Choi South Korea Women's Singles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,125
15 Weishan Liu China Women's Doubles finalist, Mixed Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $1,062
16 Darko Jorgic Slovenia Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
17 Tomislav Pucar Croatia Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
18 Yake Li China Women's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
19 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei Mixed Doubles finalist, Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $1,000
20 Yingbin Xu China Men's Doubles champion, Men's Singles round of 32 $950
21 Sarvinoz Mirkadirova Kazakhstan Women's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $950
22 Zion Lee South Korea Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles semifinals $925
23 Elizabeta Samara Romania Women's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $900
24 Mizuki Oikawa Japan Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $850
25 Seungmin Cho South Korea Men's Doubles finalist, Men's Singles round of 32 $812
26 Sang Su Lee South Korea Men's Doubles finalist, Men's Singles round of 32 $812
27 Yang Wang Slovakia Men's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $800
28 Andreea Dragoman Romania Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $800
29 Patrick Franziska Germany Men's Singles round of 16 $700
30 Liam Pitchford England Men's Singles round of 16 $700
31 Kristian Karlsson Sweden Men's Singles round of 16 $700
32 Ruwen Filus Germany Men's Singles round of 16 $700
33 Benedikt Duda Germany Men's Singles round of 16 $700
34 Tiago Apolonia Portugal Men's Singles round of 16 $700
35 Mohamed El-Beiali Egypt Men's Singles round of 16 $700
36 Hsing-Yin Liu Chinese Taipei Women's Singles round of 16 $700
37 Xiaotong Wang China Women's Singles round of 16 $700
38 Alexis Lebrun France Mixed Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 32 $700
39 Yousra Helmy Egypt Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $700
40 Can Akkuzu France Men's Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 32 $675
41 Nayeong Kim South Korea Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $675
42 Eduard Ionescu Romania Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $650
43 Prithika Pavade France Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $650
44 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $650
45 Zauresh Akasheva Kazakhstan Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $650
46 Shidong Lin China Men's Doubles champion, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $600
47 Ovidiu Ionescu Romania Men's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $600
48 Bernadette Szocs Romania Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $600
49 Xiaona Shan Germany Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $600
50 Yi-Hua Huang Chinese Taipei Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $600
51 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $550
52 Natalia Bajor Poland Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $550
53 Daeseong Cho South Korea Mixed Doubles champion $500
54 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany Men's Singles round of 32 $450
55 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei Men's Singles round of 32 $450
56 Jonathan Groth Denmark Men's Singles round of 32 $450
57 Andrej Gacina Croatia Men's Singles round of 32 $450
58 Lilian Bardet France Men's Singles round of 32 $450
59 Omar Assar Egypt Men's Singles round of 32 $450
60 Quadri Aruna Nigeria Men's Singles round of 32 $450
61 Mihai Bobocica Italy Men's Singles round of 32 $450
62 Jieni Shao Portugal Women's Singles round of 32 $450
63 Siwoo Yoo South Korea Women's Singles round of 32 $450
64 Adina Diaconu Romania Women's Singles round of 32 $450
65 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco Women's Singles round of 32 $450
66 Fu Yu Portugal Women's Singles round of 32 $450
67 Felix Lebrun France Men's Doubles semifinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $325
68 Khalid Assar Egypt Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $300
69 Chan-Hyeok Park South Korea Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $300
70 Hyobin Yoon South Korea Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $300
71 Dongsoo Kang South Korea Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $250
72 Alan Kurmangaliyev Kazakhstan Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles round of 16 $250
73 Hyunju Sim South Korea Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $250
74 Wen Sun China Men's Doubles semifinals $225
75 Haidong Xu China Men's Doubles semifinals $225
76 Seoyun Kim South Korea Women's Doubles semifinals $225
77 Hayeong Kim South Korea Women's Doubles semifinals $225
78 Aidos Kenzhigulov Kazakhstan Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $200
79 Iskender Kharki Kazakhstan Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $200
80 Angelina Romanovskaya Kazakhstan Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $200
81 Kazuhiro Yoshimura Japan Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
82 Florent Lambiet Belgium Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
83 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
84 Youssef Abdel-Aziz Egypt Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
85 Hugo Deschamps France Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
86 Vladislav Zakharov Kazakhstan Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
87 Khalid Alshareif Saudi Arabia Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
88 Turki Almutairi Saudi Arabia Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
89 Darius Movileanu Romania Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
90 Cheng-Ting Liao Chinese Taipei Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
91 Yan-Cheng Huang Chinese Taipei Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
92 Anirban Ghosh India Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
93 Swastika Ghosh India Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
94 Anastassiya Lavrova Kazakhstan Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
95 Anel Bakhyt Kazakhstan Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
96 Mariam Alhodaby Egypt Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
97 Marina Donner Finland Women's Doubles round of 16 $100

Which federations took the money home

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

24 federations paid

China $21k Chinese Taipei $8,350 South Korea $8,150 Germany $4,800 France $4,275 Romania $4,100 Kazakhstan $3,300 Portugal $3,100 Egypt $2,400 Sweden $2,200 Croatia $1,475 Slovakia $1,450 Slovenia $1,025 Japan $1,000 England $700

Every other WTT Contender Almaty

The same event in the years either side

4 other editions

Year Edition Venue Players paid Prize pot
2026 WTT Contender Almaty 2026 Table Tennis Centre ADD 91 $100,000
2025 WTT Contender Almaty 2025 Table Tennis Centre ADD 92 $100,000
2024 WTT Contender Almaty 2024 Table Tennis Centre ADD 94 $80,000
2022 WTT Contender Almaty 2022 Table Tennis Centre ADD 91 $75,000

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
2023 WTT Champions Macao WTT Champions 64 $800,000
2023 WTT Star Contender Bangkok WTT Star Contender 121 $250,000
2023 WTT Contender Lagos WTT Contender 102 $75,000
2023 WTT Contender Tunis WTT Contender 102 $75,000
2023 WTT Contender Zagreb WTT Contender 111 $75,000
2023 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana WTT Star Contender 133 $250,000
2023 WTT Feeder Havirov WTT Feeder 104 $20,000
2023 WTT Contender Lima WTT Contender 97 $75,000
2023 WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro WTT Contender 100 $75,000
2023 WTT Feeder Olomouc WTT Feeder 139 $40,000
2023 WTT Feeder Panagyurishte WTT Feeder 129 $40,000
2023 WTT Feeder Bangkok WTT Feeder 102 $20,000
2023 WTT Feeder Stockholm WTT Feeder 137 $20,000
2023 WTT Star Contender Lanzhou WTT Star Contender 107 $250,000
2023 WTT Contender Muscat WTT Contender 103 $75,000
2023 WTT Contender Antalya WTT Contender 88 $75,000
2023 WTT Feeder Doha II WTT Feeder 95 $20,000
2023 WTT Champions Frankfurt WTT Champions 64 $500,000
2023 WTT Feeder Otocec WTT Feeder 143 $20,000
2023 WTT Contender Taiyuan WTT Contender 70 $75,000

Frequently asked questions

How much does the WTT Contender Almaty 2023 winner get?

$5,000, out of a $75,000 pot. That is 6.7% of the week's prize money on one cheque.

What is the total prize money at the WTT Contender Almaty 2023?

$75,000 across 5 draws, played in Table Tennis Centre ADD between 2023-08-29 to 2023-09-03.

Who won the WTT Contender Almaty 2023?

Yun-Ju Lin took the men's singles and $5,000. Man Kuai took the women's singles and $5,000. Shidong Lin and Yingbin Xu took the men's doubles and $1,000. Yi Chen and Man Kuai took the women's doubles and $1,000. Daeseong Cho and Cheonhui Joo took the mixed doubles and $1,000.

How far down the draw does the money go at the WTT Contender Almaty?

To round of 16, which pays $200. The ladder has 13 rungs on it, and $5,000 at the top is 25 times the bottom one.

How many players got paid at the WTT Contender Almaty 2023?

97, from 24 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 Contender Almaty?

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.

Where to next

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

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