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WTT CONTENDER · 2023

WTT Contender Amman 2023 prize money

A $75,000 week in Sport Palace Hall, 2023-02-06 to 2023-02-12. 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 104
FEDERATIONS 31

The 2023 WTT Contender Amman at a glance

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

Tier
WTT Contender
Venue
Sport Palace Hall
Played
2023-02-06 to 2023-02-12
Prize pot
$75,000
Champion's cheque
$5,000
Editions of this event
1

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
Finalist Singles 280 $2,500
Semi-Finalist Singles 140 $1,500
Quarter-Finalist Singles 70 $1,025
Winner Doubles, Mixed Doubles 400 $1,000
Finalist Mixed Doubles 280 $800
Finalist Doubles 280 $725
Round of 16 Singles 35 $700
Semi-Finalist Mixed Doubles 140 $500
Semi-Finalist Doubles 140 $450
Round of 32 Singles 4 $450
Quarter-Finalist 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
Finalist $2,500
Semi-Finalist $1,500
Quarter-Finalist $1,025
Winner $1,000
Finalist $800
Finalist $725
Round of 16 $700
Semi-Finalist $500
Semi-Finalist $450
Round of 32 $450
Quarter-Finalist $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 (41) $16k
Round of 32 (32) $14k
Champion (5) $13k
Quarterfinals (18) $10k
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 Singles31 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Shidong Lin China $5,000
Finalist Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany $2,500
Semifinals Alvaro Robles Spain $1,500
Semifinals Yingbin Xu China $1,500
Quarterfinals Haidong Xu China $1,025
Quarterfinals Joao Geraldo Portugal $1,025
Quarterfinals Kristian Karlsson Sweden $1,025
Quarterfinals Jonathan Groth Denmark $1,025
Round of 16 Darko Jorgic Slovenia $700
Round of 16 Cheng-Jui Kao Chinese Taipei $700
Round of 16 Felix Lebrun France $700
Round of 16 Benedikt Duda Germany $700
Round of 16 Shunsuke Togami Japan $700
Round of 16 Omar Assar Egypt $700
Round of 16 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India $700
Round of 32 Tomislav Pucar Croatia $450
Round of 32 Bence Majoros Hungary $450
Round of 32 Sheng Yan China $450
Round of 32 Liam Pitchford England $450
Round of 32 Marcos Madrid Mexico $450
Round of 32 Jules Rolland France $450
Round of 32 Jon Persson Sweden $450
Round of 32 Andrej Gacina Croatia $450
Round of 32 Simon Gauzy France $450
Round of 32 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei $450
Round of 32 Yukiya Uda Japan $450
Round of 32 Marcos Freitas Portugal $450
Round of 32 Zaid Abo Yaman Jordan $450
Round of 32 Youzheng Huang China $450
Round of 32 Tiago Apolonia Portugal $450
Round of 32 Daniel Habesohn Austria $450

Women's Singles32 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Mima Ito Japan $5,000
Finalist Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong $2,500
Semifinals Xiaoxin Yang Monaco $1,500
Semifinals Sofia Polcanova Austria $1,500
Quarterfinals Bruna Takahashi Brazil $1,025
Quarterfinals Jia Nan Yuan France $1,025
Quarterfinals Jieni Shao Portugal $1,025
Round of 16 Feier Han China $700
Round of 16 Ho Ching Lee Hong Kong $700
Round of 16 Xia Lian Ni Luxembourg $700
Round of 16 Christina Kallberg Sweden $700
Round of 16 Bernadette Szocs Romania $700
Round of 16 Adina Diaconu Romania $700
Round of 16 Elizabeta Samara Romania $700
Round of 16 Prithika Pavade France $700
Round of 16 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei $700
Round of 32 Camille Lutz France $450
Round of 32 Maria Xiao Spain $450
Round of 32 Geman Zong China $450
Round of 32 Minhyung Jee Australia $450
Round of 32 Natalia Bajor Poland $450
Round of 32 Giorgia Piccolin Italy $450
Round of 32 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei $450
Round of 32 Linda Bergstrom Sweden $450
Round of 32 Dina Meshref Egypt $450
Round of 32 Yuxuan Qin China $450
Round of 32 Barbora Balazova Slovakia $450
Round of 32 Hana Matelova Czechia $450
Round of 32 Man Kuai China $450
Round of 32 Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong $450
Round of 32 Mo Zhang Canada $450
Round of 32 Sreeja Akula India $450

Men's Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Yebo Liu & Yingbin Xu China $1,000
Finalist Shunsuke Togami & Yukiya Uda Japan $725
Semifinals Emmanuel Lebesson & Felix Lebrun France $450
Semifinals Bence Majoros & Nandor Ecseki Hungary $450
Quarterfinals Khaled Khader & Hasan Alhourani Jordan $300
Quarterfinals Nima Alamian & Noshad Alamiyan Iran $300
Quarterfinals Yuanyu Chen & Shidong Lin China $300
Quarterfinals Bastien Rembert & Jules Rolland France $300
Round of 16 Kwan Kit Ho & Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong $200
Round of 16 Chih-Yuan Chuang & Cheng-Jui Kao Chinese Taipei $200
Round of 16 Harmeet Desai & Manav Vikash Thakkar India $200
Round of 16 Amin Ahmadian & Amir Hossein Hodaei Iran $200
Round of 16 Man Ho Kwan & Hon Ming Li Hong Kong $200
Round of 16 Zaid Abo Yaman & Zeyad Aldmaisy Jordan $200
Round of 16 Siu Hang Lam & Chun Kit Choy Hong Kong $200
Round of 16 Ali Alkhadrawi & Abdulaziz Shulaybi Bu Saudi Arabia $200

Women's Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion I-Ching Cheng & Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei $1,000
Finalist Camille Lutz & Prithika Pavade France $725
Semifinals Linda Bergstrom & Christina Kallberg Sweden $450
Semifinals Hoi Kem Doo & Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong $450
Quarterfinals Yuxuan Qin & Feier Han China $300
Quarterfinals Xia Lian Ni & Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg $300
Quarterfinals Sofia Polcanova & Bernadette Szocs Austria $300
Round of 16 Xiangyu Zhang & Shuhan Fan China $200
Round of 16 Man Kuai & Geman Zong China $200
Round of 16 Pauline Chasselin & Stephanie Loeuillette France $200
Round of 16 Batool Khader & Zeina Sadaqa Jordan $200
Round of 16 Taimmaa Abo-Yaman & Sewar Abuyaman Jordan $200
Round of 16 Adina Diaconu & Maria Xiao Romania $200
Round of 16 Leonie Hartbrich & Helga Dari Hungary $200
Round of 16 Barbora Balazova & Hana Matelova Slovakia $200
Round of 16 Natalia Bajor & Yuan Wan Poland $200

Mixed Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Shidong Lin & Man Kuai China $1,000
Finalist Ovidiu Ionescu & Bernadette Szocs Romania $800
Semifinals Benedikt Duda & Yuan Wan Germany $500
Semifinals Manav Vikash Thakkar & Tatiana Kukulkova India $500
Quarterfinals Kwan Kit Ho & Ho Ching Lee Hong Kong $300
Quarterfinals Nandor Ecseki & Dora Madarasz Hungary $300
Quarterfinals Omar Assar & Dina Meshref Egypt $300
Quarterfinals Vitor Ishiy & Bruna Takahashi Brazil $300
Round of 16 Chun Ting Wong & Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong $200
Round of 16 Lubomir Pistej & Barbora Balazova Slovakia $200
Round of 16 Simon Gauzy & Prithika Pavade France $200
Round of 16 Zeyad Aldmaisy & Taimmaa Abo-Yaman Jordan $200
Round of 16 Emmanuel Lebesson & Jia Nan Yuan France $200
Round of 16 Alvaro Robles & Maria Xiao Spain $200
Round of 16 Zaid Abo Yaman & Sewar Abuyaman Jordan $200
Round of 16 Liam Pitchford & Tin-Tin Ho England $200

The 2023 WTT Contender Amman money list

Every player the week paid, richest first

104 players

# Player Federation How far they got Won here
01 Shidong Lin China Men's Singles champion, Mixed Doubles champion, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $5,650
02 Mima Ito Japan Women's Singles champion $5,000
03 Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong Women's Singles finalist, Women's Doubles semifinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $2,825
04 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany Men's Singles finalist $2,500
05 Yingbin Xu China Men's Singles semifinals, Men's Doubles champion $2,000
06 Sofia Polcanova Austria Women's Singles semifinals, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $1,650
07 Alvaro Robles Spain Men's Singles semifinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $1,600
08 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco Women's Singles semifinals $1,500
09 Bernadette Szocs Romania Mixed Doubles finalist, Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $1,250
10 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei Women's Doubles champion, Women's Singles round of 16 $1,200
11 Bruna Takahashi Brazil Women's Singles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $1,175
12 Prithika Pavade France Women's Doubles finalist, Women's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $1,162
13 Jia Nan Yuan France Women's Singles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $1,125
14 Shunsuke Togami Japan Men's Doubles finalist, Men's Singles round of 16 $1,062
15 Man Kuai China Mixed Doubles champion, Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,050
16 Haidong Xu China Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
17 Joao Geraldo Portugal Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
18 Kristian Karlsson Sweden Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
19 Jonathan Groth Denmark Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
20 Jieni Shao Portugal Women's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
21 Benedikt Duda Germany Men's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles semifinals $950
22 Felix Lebrun France Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles semifinals $925
23 Christina Kallberg Sweden Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles semifinals $925
24 Omar Assar Egypt Men's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $850
25 Feier Han China Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $850
26 Ho Ching Lee Hong Kong Women's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $850
27 Xia Lian Ni Luxembourg Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $850
28 Yukiya Uda Japan Men's Doubles finalist, Men's Singles round of 32 $812
29 Camille Lutz France Women's Doubles finalist, Women's Singles round of 32 $812
30 Cheng-Jui Kao Chinese Taipei Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles round of 16 $800
31 Adina Diaconu Romania Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $800
32 Darko Jorgic Slovenia Men's Singles round of 16 $700
33 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India Men's Singles round of 16 $700
34 Elizabeta Samara Romania Women's Singles round of 16 $700
35 Bence Majoros Hungary Men's Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 32 $675
36 Linda Bergstrom Sweden Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $675
37 Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $675
38 Zaid Abo Yaman Jordan Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $650
39 Maria Xiao Spain Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $650
40 Barbora Balazova Slovakia Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $650
41 Jules Rolland France Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $600
42 Dina Meshref Egypt Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $600
43 Yuxuan Qin China Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $600
44 Liam Pitchford England Men's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $550
45 Simon Gauzy France Men's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $550
46 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $550
47 Geman Zong China Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $550
48 Natalia Bajor Poland Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $550
49 Hana Matelova Czechia Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $550
50 Yebo Liu China Men's Doubles champion $500
51 Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei Women's Doubles champion $500
52 Tomislav Pucar Croatia Men's Singles round of 32 $450
53 Sheng Yan China Men's Singles round of 32 $450
54 Marcos Madrid Mexico Men's Singles round of 32 $450
55 Jon Persson Sweden Men's Singles round of 32 $450
56 Andrej Gacina Croatia Men's Singles round of 32 $450
57 Marcos Freitas Portugal Men's Singles round of 32 $450
58 Youzheng Huang China Men's Singles round of 32 $450
59 Tiago Apolonia Portugal Men's Singles round of 32 $450
60 Daniel Habesohn Austria Men's Singles round of 32 $450
61 Minhyung Jee Australia Women's Singles round of 32 $450
62 Giorgia Piccolin Italy Women's Singles round of 32 $450
63 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei Women's Singles round of 32 $450
64 Mo Zhang Canada Women's Singles round of 32 $450
65 Sreeja Akula India Women's Singles round of 32 $450
66 Ovidiu Ionescu Romania Mixed Doubles finalist $400
67 Nandor Ecseki Hungary Men's Doubles semifinals, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $375
68 Yuan Wan Germany Mixed Doubles semifinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $350
69 Manav Vikash Thakkar India Mixed Doubles semifinals, Men's Doubles round of 16 $350
70 Emmanuel Lebesson France Men's Doubles semifinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $325
71 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia Mixed Doubles semifinals $250
72 Kwan Kit Ho Hong Kong Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles round of 16 $250
73 Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $200
74 Zeyad Aldmaisy Jordan Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $200
75 Taimmaa Abo-Yaman Jordan Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $200
76 Sewar Abuyaman Jordan Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $200
77 Khaled Khader Jordan Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
78 Hasan Alhourani Jordan Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
79 Nima Alamian Iran Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
80 Noshad Alamiyan Iran Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
81 Yuanyu Chen China Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
82 Bastien Rembert France Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
83 Dora Madarasz Hungary Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $150
84 Vitor Ishiy Brazil Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $150
85 Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg Women's Doubles quarterfinals $150
86 Harmeet Desai India Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
87 Amin Ahmadian Iran Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
88 Amir Hossein Hodaei Iran Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
89 Man Ho Kwan Hong Kong Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
90 Hon Ming Li Hong Kong Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
91 Siu Hang Lam Hong Kong Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
92 Chun Kit Choy Hong Kong Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
93 Ali Alkhadrawi Saudi Arabia Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
94 Abdulaziz Shulaybi Bu Saudi Arabia Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
95 Lubomir Pistej Slovakia Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
96 Tin-Tin Ho England Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
97 Xiangyu Zhang China Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
98 Shuhan Fan China Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
99 Pauline Chasselin France Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
100 Stephanie Loeuillette France Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
101 Batool Khader Jordan Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
102 Zeina Sadaqa Jordan Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
103 Leonie Hartbrich Hungary Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
104 Helga Dari Hungary 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

31 federations paid

China $13k Japan $6,875 France $5,850 Hong Kong $5,200 Germany $3,800 Chinese Taipei $3,500 Romania $3,150 Sweden $3,075 Portugal $2,950 Spain $2,250 Austria $2,100 Jordan $1,750 India $1,600
Monaco $1,500
Egypt $1,450

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 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
2023 WTT Contender Durban WTT Contender 75 $75,000
2023 WTT Contender Doha WTT Contender 103 $75,000
2023 WTT Feeder Düsseldorf WTT Feeder 127 $20,000
2023 WTT Feeder Düsseldorf II WTT Feeder 124 $20,000
2023 WTT Star Contender Goa WTT Star Contender 124 $250,000
2023 Singapore Smash Grand Smash 242 $2,000,000$2.0m
2023 WTT Feeder Antalya WTT Feeder 135 $20,000
2023 WTT Champions Xinxiang WTT Champions 64 $800,000
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

Frequently asked questions

How much does the WTT Contender Amman 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 Amman 2023?

$75,000 across 5 draws, played in Sport Palace Hall between 2023-02-06 to 2023-02-12.

Who won the WTT Contender Amman 2023?

Shidong Lin took the men's singles and $5,000. Mima Ito took the women's singles and $5,000. Yebo Liu and Yingbin Xu took the men's doubles and $1,000. I-Ching Cheng and Yu-Jhun Li took the women's doubles and $1,000. Shidong Lin and Man Kuai took the mixed doubles and $1,000.

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

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 Amman 2023?

104, from 31 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 Amman?

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 2023 WTT Contender Amman

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