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WTT CONTENDER · ALMATY

WTT Contender Almaty prize money

5 editions between 2022 to 2026 , with $5,000 to the champion at the richest of them. 306 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 $100k
TO THE CHAMPION $5k
EDITIONS 5
PLAYERS PAID 306
FIRST AND LAST 2022 to 2026

The WTT Contender Almaty money list

Everyone the event has paid, across every edition

306 players

# Player Federation Editions Titles Won here
01 Shunsuke Togami Japan 3 2 $10,750
02 Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei 5 3 $8,900
03 Xunyao Shi China 7 1 $8,700
04 Miu Hirano Japan 4 3 $8,250
05 Hina Hayata Japan 3 2 $8,000
06 Man Kuai China 6 3 $6,988
07 Shidong Lin China 5 4 $6,600
08 Honoka Hashimoto Japan 2 2 $6,250
09 Ruwen Filus Germany 2 1 $5,700
10 Yi Chen China 7 1 $5,037
11 Qihao Zhou China 4 $4,338
12 Sarvinoz Mirkadirova Kazakhstan 13 $4,000
13 Peng Xiang China 5 $3,850
14 Zauresh Akasheva Kazakhstan 13 $3,700
15 Ryoichi Yoshiyama Japan 5 $3,625
16 Alan Kurmangaliyev Kazakhstan 12 $3,625
17 Yanning Liang China 5 $3,550
18 Zhuojia He China 4 1 $3,300
19 Miyu Nagasaki Japan 4 $3,225
20 Yingbin Xu China 5 3 $3,225
21 Lev Katsman Russia 4 1 $3,200
22 Yuxuan Qin China 3 $3,075
23 Mattias Karlsson Sweden 5 $3,062
24 Siqi Fan China 3 $3,025
25 Tianyi Qian China 5 $2,962
26 Fu Yu Portugal 2 $2,950
27 Miyuu Kihara Japan 4 1 $2,900
28 Iskender Kharki Kazakhstan 10 $2,850
29 Eduard Ionescu Romania 7 $2,838
30 Junsung Oh South Korea 3 $2,825
31 Adina Diaconu Romania 8 $2,812
32 Florian Bourrassaud France 5 $2,775
33 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan 7 $2,775
34 Licen Yuan China 5 1 $2,763
35 Yuta Tanaka Japan 4 $2,750
36 Aidos Kenzhigulov Kazakhstan 11 $2,700
37 Sakura Yokoi Japan 3 $2,700
38 Simon Gauzy France 1 $2,500
39 Nayeong Kim South Korea 4 $2,475
40 Siwoo Yoo South Korea 5 $2,425
41 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei 6 1 $2,425
42 Kristian Karlsson Sweden 3 $2,275
43 Hitomi Sato Japan 2 1 $2,275
44 Andreea Dragoman Romania 6 $2,225
45 Fanbo Meng Germany 4 $2,175
46 Yang Wang Slovakia 4 $2,150
47 Annett Kaufmann Germany 3 $2,125
48 Weishan Liu China 5 1 $2,088
49 Hyojoo Choi South Korea 5 $2,088
50 Darko Jorgic Slovenia 2 $2,050
51 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco 2 $1,950
52 Ha Eun Yang South Korea 3 $1,925
53 Yi Xu China 3 $1,875
54 Zhanerke Koshkumbayeva Kazakhstan 5 $1,863
55 Alvaro Robles Spain 2 $1,850
56 Kaho Akae Japan 2 $1,850
57 Esteban Dorr France 4 $1,825
58 Xiaotong Wang China 3 $1,825
59 Elizabeta Samara Romania 5 $1,800
60 Yi-Hua Huang Chinese Taipei 5 $1,800
61 Christina Kallberg Sweden 4 $1,775
62 Sora Matsushima Japan 2 $1,775
63 Kazuki Hamada Japan 2 $1,750
64 Swastika Ghosh India 4 $1,750
65 Maksim Grebnev Russia 2 1 $1,725
66 Evgeny Tikhonov Russia 3 $1,725
67 Yake Li China 3 $1,712
68 Xiaona Shan Germany 4 $1,700
69 Geman Zong China 4 $1,675
70 Andrej Gacina Croatia 3 $1,675
71 Nina Mittelham Germany 2 $1,650
72 Sang Su Lee South Korea 5 $1,637
73 Tung-Chuan Chien Chinese Taipei 3 $1,625
74 Izabela Lupulesku Serbia 3 $1,625
75 Bernadette Szocs Romania 3 $1,625
76 Syndrela Das India 2 $1,575
77 Zion Lee South Korea 3 $1,575
78 Angelina Romanovskaya Kazakhstan 8 $1,575
79 Yangchen Wu China 3 $1,575
80 Mizuki Oikawa Japan 3 $1,500
81 Yukiya Uda Japan 1 $1,500
82 Asuka Sasao Japan 1 $1,500
83 Marcos Freitas Portugal 1 $1,500
84 Truls Moregard Sweden 1 $1,500
85 Hiroto Shinozuka Japan 1 $1,500
86 Anton Kallberg Sweden 3 $1,487
87 Yuna Ojio Japan 3 $1,475
88 Gahyeon Park South Korea 3 $1,462
89 Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei 3 $1,450
90 Junsong Chen China 2 $1,450
91 Joe Seyfried France 2 $1,425
92 Anne Uesawa Japan 2 $1,425
93 Sutirtha Mukherjee India 2 $1,400
94 Tiago Apolonia Portugal 2 $1,400
95 Jia Nan Yuan France 3 $1,375
96 Ricardo Walther Germany 3 $1,350
97 Irisbek Artukmetov Kazakhstan 5 $1,312
98 Yashaswini Ghorpade India 2 $1,300
99 Flavien Coton France 2 $1,300
100 Ganghyeon Park South Korea 2 $1,300
101 Gyuhyeon Park South Korea 2 $1,300
102 Anastassiya Lavrova Kazakhstan 5 $1,300
103 Cheonhui Joo South Korea 3 1 $1,300
104 Adriana Diaz Puerto Rico 1 $1,275
105 Cheng-Jui Kao Chinese Taipei 2 $1,275
106 Lily Zhang United States 3 $1,275
107 Yuanyu Chen China 3 $1,225
108 Ruibo Wen China 2 $1,212
109 Bo Fang Kazakhstan 2 $1,200
110 Denis Ivonin Russia 2 $1,200
111 Alexis Kouraichi France 2 $1,200
112 Elizabet Abraamian Russia 2 $1,200
113 Vlada Voronina Russia 2 $1,200
114 Sibing Zhu China 2 $1,175
115 Woojin Jang South Korea 2 $1,175
116 Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong 3 $1,162
117 Kazuki Yoshiyama Japan 2 $1,125
118 Diya Chitale India 2 $1,125
119 Mariia Tailakova Russia 2 $1,125
120 Can Akkuzu France 3 $1,125
121 Yubin Shin South Korea 3 $1,062
122 Britt Eerland Netherlands 1 $1,050
123 Andrei Istrate Romania 3 $1,050
124 Seongjin Kim South Korea 3 $1,050
125 Cheng-Ting Liao Chinese Taipei 3 1 $1,050
126 Sanzhar Zhubanov Kazakhstan 3 $1,038
127 Jules Rolland France 3 $1,025
128 Tomislav Pucar Croatia 1 $1,025
129 Jian Zeng Singapore 3 $1,025
130 Vincent Picard France 2 $1,000
131 Maria Panfilova Russia 2 $1,000
132 Wing Lam Ng Hong Kong 3 $975
133 Denis Zholudev Kazakhstan 4 $962
134 Yuan Wan Germany 3 $950
135 Linda Bergstrom Sweden 3 $950
136 Qi Shen Wong Malaysia 2 $925
137 Yuhi Sakai Japan 2 $925
138 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia 4 $925
139 Jaehyun An South Korea 2 $925
140 Ai Xin Tee Malaysia 3 $912
141 Satsuki Odo Japan 2 $900
142 Iulian Chirita Romania 2 $887
143 Jonghoon Lim South Korea 3 $850
144 Manush Shah India 1 $825
145 Debora Vivarelli Italy 1 $825
146 Nikita Artemenko Russia 2 $825
147 Valeriia Shcherbatykh Russia 2 $825
148 Vladislav Zakharov Kazakhstan 6 $825
149 Youzheng Huang China 1 $825
150 Benyamin Faraji Iran 1 $825
151 Eunhye Lee South Korea 1 $825
152 Kyoka Idesawa Japan 2 $825
153 Seungmin Cho South Korea 2 $812
154 Baldwin Chan Hong Kong 3 $800
155 Linwei Sai China 2 $800
156 Yuqi Li China 2 $800
157 Feier Han China 2 $800
158 Cristian Pletea Romania 3 $800
159 Lubomir Jancarik Czechia 1 $775
160 Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei 1 $775
161 Miwa Harimoto Japan 1 $775
162 Haidong Xu China 3 $775
163 Payas Jain India 2 $763
164 Patrick Franziska Germany 1 $700
165 Liam Pitchford England 1 $700
166 Benedikt Duda Germany 1 $700
167 Mohamed El-Beiali Egypt 1 $700
168 Hsing-Yin Liu Chinese Taipei 1 $700
169 Alexis Lebrun France 2 $700
170 Yousra Helmy Egypt 3 $700
171 Dongsoo Kang South Korea 3 $700
172 Kanak Jha United States 1 $700
173 Koki Niwa Japan 1 $700
174 Barbora Balazova Slovakia 3 $700
175 Yan Jun Li Chinese Taipei 2 $688
176 Gaon Kim South Korea 2 $688
177 Yu-An Chang Chinese Taipei 2 $688
178 Cedric Meissner Germany 2 $675
179 Jingyi Zhou Singapore 2 $675
180 Kirill Skachkov Russia 1 $650
181 Angel Naranjo Puerto Rico 1 $650
182 Lev Volin Russia 1 $650
183 Alberto Mino Ecuador 1 $650
184 Xia Lian Ni Luxembourg 1 $650
185 Valeriia Kotsiur Russia 1 $650
186 Yu-Jie Huang Chinese Taipei 1 $650
187 Olga Vorobeva Russia 1 $650
188 Olga Vishniakova Russia 1 $650
189 Hwan Bae Australia 1 $650
190 Fei Xue China 1 $650
191 Juan Perez Spain 1 $650
192 Satoshi Aida Japan 1 $650
193 Kay Stumper Germany 1 $650
194 Woojin Kim South Korea 1 $650
195 Misuzu Takeya Japan 1 $650
196 Xiangyu Zhang China 1 $650
197 Ayhika Mukherjee India 1 $650
198 Prithika Pavade France 3 $650
199 Pauline Chasselin France 3 $650
200 Ioana Singeorzan Romania 2 $637
201 Yan-Cheng Huang Chinese Taipei 2 $625
202 Anel Bakhyt Kazakhstan 5 $600
203 Ovidiu Ionescu Romania 2 $600
204 Shuhan Fan China 2 $600
205 Sagantay Kurmambayev Kazakhstan 3 $575
206 Dastan Kenzhigulov Kazakhstan 4 $562
207 Natalia Bajor Poland 2 $550
208 Jo Yokotani Japan 1 $525
209 Bakdaulet Akimali Kazakhstan 3 $513
210 Seoyun Kim South Korea 2 $500
211 Daeseong Cho South Korea 1 1 $500
212 Hayate Suzuki Japan 1 $475
213 Ekaterina Zironova Russia 1 $475
214 Guzel Torshayeva Kazakhstan 2 $450
215 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany 1 $450
216 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei 1 $450
217 Jonathan Groth Denmark 1 $450
218 Lilian Bardet France 1 $450
219 Omar Assar Egypt 1 $450
220 Quadri Aruna Nigeria 1 $450
221 Mihai Bobocica Italy 1 $450
222 Jieni Shao Portugal 1 $450
223 Brian Afanador Puerto Rico 1 $450
224 Sheng Yan China 1 $450
225 Beixun Zeng China 1 $450
226 Alexandre Cassin France 1 $450
227 Marcelo Aguirre Paraguay 1 $450
228 Joao Geraldo Portugal 1 $450
229 Yiduo Wang China 1 $450
230 Archana Girish Kamath India 1 $450
231 Javen Choong Malaysia 2 $387
232 Karen Lyne Malaysia 2 $387
233 Kwan To Yiu Hong Kong 2 $338
234 Ali Alkhadrawi Saudi Arabia 2 $325
235 Abdulaziz Shulaybi Bu Saudi Arabia 2 $325
236 Felix Lebrun France 2 $325
237 Khalid Assar Egypt 2 $300
238 Chan-Hyeok Park South Korea 2 $300
239 Hyobin Yoon South Korea 2 $300
240 Dmitrii Vinogradov Russia 1 $275
241 Arina Slautina Russia 1 $275
242 Alina Zavarykina Russia 1 $275
243 Darya Fu Kazakhstan 1 $275
244 Mariya Lukyanova Kazakhstan 1 $275
245 Aray Ashkeyeva Kazakhstan 2 $275
246 Hyunju Sim South Korea 2 $250
247 Tzu-Yu Tseng Chinese Taipei 1 $225
248 Wen Sun China 1 $225
249 Hayeong Kim South Korea 1 $225
250 Darius Movileanu Romania 2 $212
251 Yew En Koen Pang Singapore 2 $200
252 Vivien Scholz Luxembourg 2 $200
253 Temirlan Jiyenbayev Kazakhstan 1 $175
254 Nursaya Nurman Kazakhstan 1 $175
255 Darya Gamova Kazakhstan 1 $175
256 Noila Khaniyazova Kazakhstan 1 $175
257 Yekaterina Okhmak Kazakhstan 1 $175
258 Akniyet Amangeldi Kazakhstan 1 $175
259 Albina Zhaxylykova Kazakhstan 1 $175
260 Shakhzoda Akhmadaliyeva Kazakhstan 1 $175
261 Nazym Serikbay Kazakhstan 1 $175
262 Anh Tu Nguyen Vietnam 1 $175
263 Layan Neumann Mexico 1 $175
264 Vladimir Sidorenko Neutral Athletes 1 $175
265 Tey Hong Yu Malaysia 1 $175
266 Jin Zhen Im Malaysia 1 $175
267 Heorhi Kunats Neutral Athletes 1 $175
268 Li Sian Chang Malaysia 1 $175
269 Im Li Ying Malaysia 1 $175
270 Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg 1 $175
271 Ulyana Miashchanskaya Neutral Athletes 1 $175
272 Lizaveta Tsimashkova Neutral Athletes 1 $175
273 Eunchae Ji South Korea 1 $162
274 Ece Harac Turkey 1 $162
275 Ozge Yilmaz Turkey 1 $162
276 Kazuhiro Yoshimura Japan 1 $150
277 Florent Lambiet Belgium 1 $150
278 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium 1 $150
279 Youssef Abdel-Aziz Egypt 1 $150
280 Lubomir Pistej Slovakia 1 $150
281 Jishan Liang United States 1 $150
282 Xiaotong Zang China 1 $150
283 Sanil Shetty India 1 $113
284 Wann Sing Danny Ng Malaysia 1 $113
285 Jeongmun Ho South Korea 1 $113
286 Shokhrukh Iskandarov Uzbekistan 1 $113
287 Markhabo Magdieva Uzbekistan 1 $113
288 Jay Shern Fong Malaysia 1 $113
289 Ying Ho Malaysia 1 $113
290 Elena Zaharia Romania 1 $113
291 Franziska Schreiner Germany 1 $113
292 Sophia Klee Germany 1 $113
293 Hugo Deschamps France 1 $100
294 Khalid Alshareif Saudi Arabia 1 $100
295 Turki Almutairi Saudi Arabia 1 $100
296 Anirban Ghosh India 1 $100
297 Mariam Alhodaby Egypt 1 $100
298 Marina Donner Finland 1 $100
299 Snehit Suravajjula India 1 $100
300 Jeet Chandra India 1 $100
301 Rares Sipos Romania 1 $100
302 Erik Raiter Kazakhstan 1 $100
303 Guankai Niu China 1 $100
304 Xinyuan Han China 1 $100
305 Felix Wetzel Malta 1 $100
306 Yutong Leng China 1 $100

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 WTT Contender Almaty

182 paid at more than one edition

Shunsuke Togami $11k Yun-Ju Lin $8,900 Xunyao Shi $8,700 Miu Hirano $8,250 Hina Hayata $8,000 Man Kuai $6,988 Shidong Lin $6,600 Honoka Hashimoto $6,250 Ruwen Filus $5,700 Yi Chen $5,037 Qihao Zhou $4,338 Sarvinoz Mirkadirova $4,000 Peng Xiang $3,850 Zauresh Akasheva $3,700 Ryoichi Yoshiyama $3,625

Every WTT Contender Almaty

Newest first, with what each week put up

5 editions

Year Edition Venue Draws Players paid Prize pot
2026 WTT Contender Almaty 2026 Table Tennis Centre ADD 4 91 $100,000
2025 WTT Contender Almaty 2025 Table Tennis Centre ADD 4 92 $100,000
2024 WTT Contender Almaty 2024 Table Tennis Centre ADD 5 94 $80,000
2023 WTT Contender Almaty 2023 Table Tennis Centre ADD 5 97 $75,000
2022 WTT Contender Almaty 2022 Table Tennis Centre ADD 5 91 $75,000

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.

WTT Contender Almaty champions

Every draw of every edition, and what winning it paid

23 titles

Year Draw Champion Federation Prize
2026 Men's Singles Shunsuke Togami Japan $5,000
2026 Women's Singles Miu Hirano Japan $5,000
2026 Men's Doubles Lev Katsman & Maksim Grebnev Russia $2,500
2026 Women's Doubles Miu Hirano & Miyuu Kihara Japan $2,500
2025 Men's Singles Shunsuke Togami Japan $5,000
2025 Women's Singles Honoka Hashimoto Japan $5,000
2025 Men's Doubles Licen Yuan & Yingbin Xu China $2,500
2025 Women's Doubles Honoka Hashimoto & Hitomi Sato Japan $2,500
2024 Men's Singles Shidong Lin China $5,000
2024 Women's Singles Xunyao Shi China $5,000
2024 Men's Doubles Shidong Lin & Yingbin Xu China $1,000
2024 Women's Doubles Zhuojia He & Weishan Liu China $1,000
2024 Mixed Doubles Shidong Lin & Man Kuai China $1,000
2023 Men's Singles Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei $5,000
2023 Women's Singles Man Kuai China $5,000
2023 Men's Doubles Shidong Lin & Yingbin Xu China $1,000
2023 Women's Doubles Yi Chen & Man Kuai China $1,000
2023 Mixed Doubles Daeseong Cho & Cheonhui Joo South Korea $1,000
2022 Men's Singles Ruwen Filus Germany $5,000
2022 Women's Singles Hina Hayata Japan $5,000
2022 Men's Doubles Yun-Ju Lin & Cheng-Ting Liao Chinese Taipei $1,000
2022 Women's Doubles Hina Hayata & Miu Hirano Japan $1,000
2022 Mixed Doubles Yun-Ju Lin & Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei $1,000

Where the WTT Contender Almaty money ends up

Every cheque the event has written, by federation

45 federations

China $81k Japan $73k Kazakhstan $35k South Korea $31k Chinese Taipei $23k Germany $19k France $19k Russia $19k Romania $16k Sweden $11k India $10k Portugal $6,750 Slovakia $3,925 Malaysia $3,650 Hong Kong $3,275

Where the WTT Contender Almaty sits on the tour

Ranked 23 of 99 on prize money paid

# Event Tier Editions Span Paid out
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
18 WTT Champions Doha WTT Champions 1 2026 $475,000
19 WTT Champions European Summer Series WTT Champions 1 2022 $475,000
20 WTT Star Contender Chennai WTT Star Contender 2 2025 to 2026 $427,534
21 WTT Star Contender Bangkok WTT Star Contender 2 2023 to 2024 $419,900
22 WTT Star Contender Goa WTT Star Contender 2 2023 to 2024 $402,500
24 WTT Contender Tunis WTT Contender 5 2022 to 2026 $382,900
25 WTT Contender Muscat WTT Contender 5 2022 to 2026 $373,800
26 WTT Contender Lagos WTT Contender 4 2023 to 2026 $326,200
27 WTT Contender Zagreb WTT Contender 4 2023 to 2026 $326,075
28 WTT Finals Men Doha WTT Finals 1 2024 $323,000
29 WTT Finals Women Nagoya WTT Finals 1 2023 $323,000
30 WTT Contender Taiyuan WTT Contender 4 2023 to 2026 $303,550
31 WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos WTT Star Contender 1 2026 $245,001
32 WTT Star Contender London WTT Star Contender 1 2025 $221,684
33 WTT Star Contender Muscat WTT Star Contender 1 2025 $219,084

Frequently asked questions

How much does the WTT Contender Almaty winner get?

$5,000 at the richest edition on this site, out of a $100,000 pot. 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.

How many times has the WTT Contender Almaty been played?

5 editions on this site, 2022 to 2026, in Almaty.

Who has won the most money at the WTT Contender Almaty?

Shunsuke Togami of Japan, $10,750 across 3 editions and 2 titles.

Do the same players keep coming back to the WTT Contender Almaty?

182 of the 306 players the event has paid have been paid at more than one edition of it.

Which country does the WTT Contender Almaty money go to?

China takes the most of it, $81,150 across 5 editions, out of 45 federations paid here.

What is the WTT Contender Almaty worth in total?

$430,000 across 5 editions that publish a pot.

Where to next

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