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WTT CONTENDER · 2025

WTT Contender Almaty 2025 prize money

A $100,000 week in Table Tennis Centre ADD, 2025-09-02 to 2025-09-07. The champion takes $5,000, 5% 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 $100k
TO THE CHAMPION $5k
DRAWS 4
PLAYERS PAID 92
FEDERATIONS 19

The 2025 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
2025-09-02 to 2025-09-07
Prize pot
$100,000
Champion's cheque
$5,000
Editions of this event
5

The prize ladder

What each place is worth, as published

11 rungs

Place Draws it applies to Ranking points Prize
Champion the cheque every draw is played for Singles 400 $5,000
Champion Doubles 400 $2,500
Finalist Singles 280 $2,500
Finalist Doubles 280 $1,500
Semifinals Singles 140 $1,275
Quarterfinals Singles 70 $1,025
Semifinals Doubles 140 $950
Round of 16 Singles 35 $825
Round of 32 Singles 4 $650
Quarterfinals Doubles 70 $550
Round of 16 Doubles 4 $350

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 14x the bottom

Champion $5,000
Champion $2,500
Finalist $2,500
Finalist $1,500
Semifinals $1,275
Quarterfinals $1,025
Semifinals $950
Round of 16 $825
Round of 32 $650
Quarterfinals $550
Round of 16 $350

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) $21k
Round of 16 (32) $19k
Champion (4) $15k
Quarterfinals (16) $13k
Semifinals (8) $8,900
Finalist (4) $8,000

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.

Men's Singles32 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Shunsuke Togami Japan $5,000
Finalist Qihao Zhou China $2,500
Semifinals Junsong Chen China $1,275
Semifinals Ryoichi Yoshiyama Japan $1,275
Quarterfinals Flavien Coton France $1,025
Quarterfinals Darko Jorgic Slovenia $1,025
Quarterfinals Florian Bourrassaud France $1,025
Quarterfinals Sora Matsushima Japan $1,025
Round of 16 Gyuhyeon Park South Korea $825
Round of 16 Alvaro Robles Spain $825
Round of 16 Ganghyeon Park South Korea $825
Round of 16 Lev Katsman Neutral Athletes $825
Round of 16 Youzheng Huang China $825
Round of 16 Alan Kurmangaliyev Kazakhstan $825
Round of 16 Benyamin Faraji Iran $825
Round of 16 Jules Rolland France $825
Round of 32 Yuta Tanaka Japan $650
Round of 32 Hwan Bae Australia $650
Round of 32 Fei Xue China $650
Round of 32 Aidos Kenzhigulov Kazakhstan $650
Round of 32 Licen Yuan China $650
Round of 32 Juan Perez Spain $650
Round of 32 Satoshi Aida Japan $650
Round of 32 Qi Shen Wong Malaysia $650
Round of 32 Iskender Kharki Kazakhstan $650
Round of 32 Kay Stumper Germany $650
Round of 32 Yang Wang Slovakia $650
Round of 32 Fanbo Meng Germany $650
Round of 32 Eduard Ionescu Romania $650
Round of 32 Joe Seyfried France $650
Round of 32 Woojin Kim South Korea $650
Round of 32 Yuhi Sakai Japan $650

Women's Singles32 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Honoka Hashimoto Japan $5,000
Finalist Yuxuan Qin China $2,500
Semifinals Zhuojia He China $1,275
Semifinals Sakura Yokoi Japan $1,275
Quarterfinals Xunyao Shi China $1,025
Quarterfinals Nayeong Kim South Korea $1,025
Quarterfinals Hitomi Sato Japan $1,025
Quarterfinals Yi Xu China $1,025
Round of 16 Gahyeon Park South Korea $825
Round of 16 Xiaona Shan Germany $825
Round of 16 Tianyi Qian China $825
Round of 16 Annett Kaufmann Germany $825
Round of 16 Kaho Akae Japan $825
Round of 16 Ha Eun Yang South Korea $825
Round of 16 Izabela Lupulesku Serbia $825
Round of 16 Eunhye Lee South Korea $825
Round of 32 Adina Diaconu Romania $650
Round of 32 Misuzu Takeya Japan $650
Round of 32 Xiangyu Zhang China $650
Round of 32 Andreea Dragoman Romania $650
Round of 32 Mariia Tailakova Neutral Athletes $650
Round of 32 Anne Uesawa Japan $650
Round of 32 Yuna Ojio Japan $650
Round of 32 Kyoka Idesawa Japan $650
Round of 32 Swastika Ghosh India $650
Round of 32 Geman Zong China $650
Round of 32 Siwoo Yoo South Korea $650
Round of 32 Xiaotong Wang China $650
Round of 32 Sarvinoz Mirkadirova Kazakhstan $650
Round of 32 Zauresh Akasheva Kazakhstan $650
Round of 32 Ayhika Mukherjee India $650
Round of 32 Zhanerke Koshkumbayeva Kazakhstan $650

Men's Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Licen Yuan & Yingbin Xu China $2,500
Finalist Sora Matsushima & Shunsuke Togami Japan $1,500
Semifinals Ganghyeon Park & Gyuhyeon Park South Korea $950
Semifinals Maksim Grebnev & Lev Katsman Neutral Athletes $950
Quarterfinals Ryoichi Yoshiyama & Yuhi Sakai Japan $550
Quarterfinals Florian Bourrassaud & Flavien Coton France $550
Quarterfinals Irisbek Artukmetov & Iskender Kharki Kazakhstan $550
Quarterfinals Javen Choong & Qi Shen Wong Malaysia $550
Round of 16 Bakdaulet Akimali & Vladislav Zakharov Kazakhstan $350
Round of 16 Anh Tu Nguyen & Layan Neumann Vietnam $350
Round of 16 Vladimir Sidorenko & Evgeny Tikhonov Neutral Athletes $350
Round of 16 Qihao Zhou & Junsong Chen China $350
Round of 16 Sagantay Kurmambayev & Denis Zholudev Kazakhstan $350
Round of 16 Tey Hong Yu & Jin Zhen Im Malaysia $350
Round of 16 Aidos Kenzhigulov & Alan Kurmangaliyev Kazakhstan $350
Round of 16 Heorhi Kunats & Dastan Kenzhigulov Neutral Athletes $350

Women's Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Honoka Hashimoto & Hitomi Sato Japan $2,500
Finalist Xunyao Shi & Tianyi Qian China $1,500
Semifinals Zhuojia He & Xiaotong Wang China $950
Semifinals Geman Zong & Yuxuan Qin China $950
Quarterfinals Tatiana Kukulkova & Izabela Lupulesku Slovakia $550
Quarterfinals Annett Kaufmann & Xiaona Shan Germany $550
Quarterfinals Karen Lyne & Ai Xin Tee Malaysia $550
Quarterfinals Ha Eun Yang & Seoyun Kim South Korea $550
Round of 16 Yuna Ojio & Kyoka Idesawa Japan $350
Round of 16 Anel Bakhyt & Angelina Romanovskaya Kazakhstan $350
Round of 16 Zhanerke Koshkumbayeva & Guzel Torshayeva Kazakhstan $350
Round of 16 Zauresh Akasheva & Sarvinoz Mirkadirova Kazakhstan $350
Round of 16 Li Sian Chang & Im Li Ying Malaysia $350
Round of 16 Sarah De Nutte & Swastika Ghosh Luxembourg $350
Round of 16 Adina Diaconu & Andreea Dragoman Romania $350
Round of 16 Ulyana Miashchanskaya & Lizaveta Tsimashkova Neutral Athletes $350

The 2025 WTT Contender Almaty money list

Every player the week paid, richest first

92 players

# Player Federation How far they got Won here
01 Honoka Hashimoto Japan Women's Singles champion, Women's Doubles champion $6,250
02 Shunsuke Togami Japan Men's Singles champion, Men's Doubles finalist $5,750
03 Yuxuan Qin China Women's Singles finalist, Women's Doubles semifinals $2,975
04 Qihao Zhou China Men's Singles finalist, Men's Doubles round of 16 $2,675
05 Hitomi Sato Japan Women's Doubles champion, Women's Singles quarterfinals $2,275
06 Licen Yuan China Men's Doubles champion, Men's Singles round of 32 $1,900
07 Sora Matsushima Japan Men's Doubles finalist, Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,775
08 Xunyao Shi China Women's Doubles finalist, Women's Singles quarterfinals $1,775
09 Zhuojia He China Women's Singles semifinals, Women's Doubles semifinals $1,750
10 Tianyi Qian China Women's Doubles finalist, Women's Singles round of 16 $1,575
11 Ryoichi Yoshiyama Japan Men's Singles semifinals, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $1,550
12 Junsong Chen China Men's Singles semifinals, Men's Doubles round of 16 $1,450
13 Flavien Coton France Men's Singles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $1,300
14 Florian Bourrassaud France Men's Singles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $1,300
15 Ganghyeon Park South Korea Men's Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 16 $1,300
16 Gyuhyeon Park South Korea Men's Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 16 $1,300
17 Lev Katsman Neutral Athletes Men's Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 16 $1,300
18 Sakura Yokoi Japan Women's Singles semifinals $1,275
19 Yingbin Xu China Men's Doubles champion $1,250
20 Xiaotong Wang China Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $1,125
21 Geman Zong China Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $1,125
22 Xiaona Shan Germany Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $1,100
23 Annett Kaufmann Germany Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $1,100
24 Ha Eun Yang South Korea Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $1,100
25 Izabela Lupulesku Serbia Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $1,100
26 Darko Jorgic Slovenia Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
27 Nayeong Kim South Korea Women's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
28 Yi Xu China Women's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
29 Alan Kurmangaliyev Kazakhstan Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles round of 16 $1,000
30 Qi Shen Wong Malaysia Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $925
31 Iskender Kharki Kazakhstan Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $925
32 Yuhi Sakai Japan Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $925
33 Alvaro Robles Spain Men's Singles round of 16 $825
34 Youzheng Huang China Men's Singles round of 16 $825
35 Benyamin Faraji Iran Men's Singles round of 16 $825
36 Jules Rolland France Men's Singles round of 16 $825
37 Gahyeon Park South Korea Women's Singles round of 16 $825
38 Kaho Akae Japan Women's Singles round of 16 $825
39 Eunhye Lee South Korea Women's Singles round of 16 $825
40 Aidos Kenzhigulov Kazakhstan Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $825
41 Adina Diaconu Romania Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $825
42 Andreea Dragoman Romania Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $825
43 Yuna Ojio Japan Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $825
44 Kyoka Idesawa Japan Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $825
45 Swastika Ghosh India Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $825
46 Sarvinoz Mirkadirova Kazakhstan Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $825
47 Zauresh Akasheva Kazakhstan Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $825
48 Zhanerke Koshkumbayeva Kazakhstan Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $825
49 Yuta Tanaka Japan Men's Singles round of 32 $650
50 Hwan Bae Australia Men's Singles round of 32 $650
51 Fei Xue China Men's Singles round of 32 $650
52 Juan Perez Spain Men's Singles round of 32 $650
53 Satoshi Aida Japan Men's Singles round of 32 $650
54 Kay Stumper Germany Men's Singles round of 32 $650
55 Yang Wang Slovakia Men's Singles round of 32 $650
56 Fanbo Meng Germany Men's Singles round of 32 $650
57 Eduard Ionescu Romania Men's Singles round of 32 $650
58 Joe Seyfried France Men's Singles round of 32 $650
59 Woojin Kim South Korea Men's Singles round of 32 $650
60 Misuzu Takeya Japan Women's Singles round of 32 $650
61 Xiangyu Zhang China Women's Singles round of 32 $650
62 Mariia Tailakova Neutral Athletes Women's Singles round of 32 $650
63 Anne Uesawa Japan Women's Singles round of 32 $650
64 Siwoo Yoo South Korea Women's Singles round of 32 $650
65 Ayhika Mukherjee India Women's Singles round of 32 $650
66 Maksim Grebnev Neutral Athletes Men's Doubles semifinals $475
67 Irisbek Artukmetov Kazakhstan Men's Doubles quarterfinals $275
68 Javen Choong Malaysia Men's Doubles quarterfinals $275
69 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia Women's Doubles quarterfinals $275
70 Karen Lyne Malaysia Women's Doubles quarterfinals $275
71 Ai Xin Tee Malaysia Women's Doubles quarterfinals $275
72 Seoyun Kim South Korea Women's Doubles quarterfinals $275
73 Bakdaulet Akimali Kazakhstan Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
74 Vladislav Zakharov Kazakhstan Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
75 Anh Tu Nguyen Vietnam Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
76 Layan Neumann Mexico Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
77 Vladimir Sidorenko Neutral Athletes Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
78 Evgeny Tikhonov Neutral Athletes Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
79 Sagantay Kurmambayev Kazakhstan Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
80 Denis Zholudev Kazakhstan Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
81 Tey Hong Yu Malaysia Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
82 Jin Zhen Im Malaysia Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
83 Heorhi Kunats Neutral Athletes Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
84 Dastan Kenzhigulov Kazakhstan Men's Doubles round of 16 $175
85 Anel Bakhyt Kazakhstan Women's Doubles round of 16 $175
86 Angelina Romanovskaya Kazakhstan Women's Doubles round of 16 $175
87 Guzel Torshayeva Kazakhstan Women's Doubles round of 16 $175
88 Li Sian Chang Malaysia Women's Doubles round of 16 $175
89 Im Li Ying Malaysia Women's Doubles round of 16 $175
90 Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg Women's Doubles round of 16 $175
91 Ulyana Miashchanskaya Neutral Athletes Women's Doubles round of 16 $175
92 Lizaveta Tsimashkova Neutral Athletes Women's Doubles round of 16 $175

Which federations took the money home

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

19 federations paid

Japan $25k China $21k South Korea $7,950 Kazakhstan $6,900 France $4,075 Germany $3,500 Neutral Athletes $3,300 Malaysia $2,450 Romania $2,300 Spain $1,475 India $1,475 Serbia $1,100 Slovenia $1,025 Slovakia $925 Iran $825

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
2024 WTT Contender Almaty 2024 Table Tennis Centre ADD 94 $80,000
2023 WTT Contender Almaty 2023 Table Tennis Centre ADD 97 $75,000
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
2025 WTT Contender Lagos WTT Contender 95 $100,000
2025 WTT Star Contender Foz do Iguaçu WTT Star Contender 95 $300,000
2025 WTT Feeder Spokane WTT Feeder 83 $30,000
2025 WTT Champions Yokohama WTT Champions 64 $500,000
2025 WTT Feeder Spokane II WTT Feeder 81 $30,000
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 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 China Youth Smash Youth Smash 59 $20,000
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

Frequently asked questions

How much does the WTT Contender Almaty 2025 winner get?

$5,000, out of a $100,000 pot. That is 5% of the week's prize money on one cheque.

What is the total prize money at the WTT Contender Almaty 2025?

$100,000 across 4 draws, played in Table Tennis Centre ADD between 2025-09-02 to 2025-09-07.

Who won the WTT Contender Almaty 2025?

Shunsuke Togami took the men's singles and $5,000. Honoka Hashimoto took the women's singles and $5,000. Licen Yuan and Yingbin Xu took the men's doubles and $2,500. Honoka Hashimoto and Hitomi Sato took the women's doubles and $2,500.

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

To round of 16, which pays $350. The ladder has 11 rungs on it, and $5,000 at the top is 14 times the bottom one.

How many players got paid at the WTT Contender Almaty 2025?

92, from 19 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

Players paid at the 2025 WTT Contender Almaty

Every WTT Contender Almaty

Federations paid here

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