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WTT CONTENDER · 2023

WTT Contender Doha 2023 prize money

A $75,000 week in Lusail Sports Arena, 2023-01-15 to 2023-01-21. 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 103
FEDERATIONS 30

The 2023 WTT Contender Doha at a glance

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

Tier
WTT Contender
Venue
Lusail Sports Arena
Played
2023-01-15 to 2023-01-21
Prize pot
$75,000
Champion's cheque
$5,000
Editions of this event
2

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 (42) $17k
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 Singles32 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Hugo Calderano Brazil $5,000
Finalist Woojin Jang South Korea $2,500
Semifinals Peng Xiang China $1,500
Semifinals Shidong Lin China $1,500
Quarterfinals Sangsu Lee South Korea $1,025
Quarterfinals Licen Yuan China $1,025
Quarterfinals Jonghoon Lim South Korea $1,025
Quarterfinals Marcos Freitas Portugal $1,025
Round of 16 Sharath Kamal Achanta India $700
Round of 16 Lubomir Jancarik Czechia $700
Round of 16 Robert Gardos Austria $700
Round of 16 Tomislav Pucar Croatia $700
Round of 16 Lubomir Pistej Slovakia $700
Round of 16 Ricardo Walther Germany $700
Round of 16 Seungmin Cho South Korea $700
Round of 16 Qihao Zhou China $700
Round of 32 Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei $450
Round of 32 Vitor Ishiy Brazil $450
Round of 32 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India $450
Round of 32 Angel Naranjo Puerto Rico $450
Round of 32 Yanning Liang China $450
Round of 32 Quadri Aruna Nigeria $450
Round of 32 Mattias Falck Sweden $450
Round of 32 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan $450
Round of 32 Anton Kallberg Sweden $450
Round of 32 Benedikt Duda Germany $450
Round of 32 Emmanuel Lebesson France $450
Round of 32 Milosz Redzimski Poland $450
Round of 32 Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong $450
Round of 32 Andrej Gacina Croatia $450
Round of 32 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei $450
Round of 32 Ahmad Khalil Al-Mohannadi Qatar $450

Women's Singles32 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Siqi Fan China $5,000
Finalist Rui Zhang China $2,500
Semifinals Manika Batra India $1,500
Semifinals Weishan Liu China $1,500
Quarterfinals Hyojoo Choi South Korea $1,025
Quarterfinals I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei $1,025
Quarterfinals Tianyi Qian China $1,025
Round of 16 Elizabeta Samara Romania $700
Round of 16 Cheonhui Joo South Korea $700
Round of 16 Jihee Jeon South Korea $700
Round of 16 Yi Chen China $700
Round of 16 Dora Madarasz Hungary $700
Round of 16 Jia Nan Yuan France $700
Round of 16 Man Kuai China $700
Round of 16 Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei $700
Round of 16 Annett Kaufmann Germany $700
Round of 32 Adina Diaconu Romania $450
Round of 32 Bernadette Szocs Romania $450
Round of 32 Barbora Balazova Slovakia $450
Round of 32 Sabine Winter Germany $450
Round of 32 Zhuojia He China $450
Round of 32 Bruna Takahashi Brazil $450
Round of 32 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei $450
Round of 32 Hana Goda Egypt $450
Round of 32 Maria Xiao Spain $450
Round of 32 Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand $450
Round of 32 Yubin Shin South Korea $450
Round of 32 Hyowon Suh South Korea $450
Round of 32 Maryam Ali Qatar $450
Round of 32 Xia Lian Ni Luxembourg $450
Round of 32 Nina Mittelham Germany $450
Round of 32 Georgina Pota Hungary $450

Men's Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Ziyang Yu & Kai Zhou China $1,000
Finalist Jaehyun An & Seungmin Cho South Korea $725
Semifinals Jonghoon Lim & Woojin Jang South Korea $450
Semifinals Peng Xiang & Licen Yuan China $450
Quarterfinals Adam Szudi & Nandor Ecseki Hungary $300
Quarterfinals Chun Ting Wong & Kwan Kit Ho Hong Kong $300
Quarterfinals Nima Alamian & Noshad Alamiyan Iran $300
Round of 16 Shidong Lin & Yuanyu Chen China $200
Round of 16 Alvaro Robles & Ovidiu Ionescu Spain $200
Round of 16 Cedric Nuytinck & Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium $200
Round of 16 Sajad Hosseini & Navid Shams Iran $200
Round of 16 Emmanuel Lebesson & Lubomir Pistej France $200
Round of 16 Fei Xue & Yanning Liang China $200
Round of 16 Hsin-Yu Li & Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei $200
Round of 16 Chih-Yuan Chuang & Wang-Wei Peng Chinese Taipei $200
Round of 16 Ahmad Khalil Al-Mohannadi & Mohammed Abdulwahhab Qatar $200

Women's Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Rui Zhang & Man Kuai China $1,000
Finalist Yubin Shin & Jihee Jeon South Korea $725
Semifinals Hyojoo Choi & Zion Lee South Korea $450
Semifinals Sofia Polcanova & Bernadette Szocs Austria $450
Quarterfinals Orawan Paranang & Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand $300
Quarterfinals Adina Diaconu & Maria Xiao Romania $300
Quarterfinals Hoi Kem Doo & Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong $300
Quarterfinals Debora Vivarelli & Giorgia Piccolin Italy $300
Round of 16 I-Ching Cheng & Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei $200
Round of 16 Elizabeta Samara & Andreea Dragoman Romania $200
Round of 16 Anna Wegrzyn & Katarzyna Wegrzyn Poland $200
Round of 16 Tin-Tin Ho & Karoline Mischek England $200
Round of 16 Georgina Pota & Dora Madarasz Hungary $200
Round of 16 Tianyi Qian & Xunyao Shi China $200
Round of 16 Annett Kaufmann & Sabine Winter Germany $200
Round of 16 Franziska Schreiner & Chantal Mantz Germany $200

Mixed Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Shidong Lin & Man Kuai China $1,000
Finalist Jonghoon Lim & Yubin Shin South Korea $800
Semifinals Chun Ting Wong & Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong $500
Semifinals Sathiyan Gnanasekaran & Manika Batra India $500
Quarterfinals Robert Gardos & Sofia Polcanova Austria $300
Quarterfinals Woojin Jang & Jihee Jeon South Korea $300
Quarterfinals Nandor Ecseki & Dora Madarasz Hungary $300
Quarterfinals Alvaro Robles & Maria Xiao Spain $300
Round of 16 Cristian Pletea & Adina Diaconu Romania $200
Round of 16 Vitor Ishiy & Bruna Takahashi Brazil $200
Round of 16 Yi-Hsin Feng & Hsing-Yin Liu Chinese Taipei $200
Round of 16 Ovidiu Ionescu & Bernadette Szocs Romania $200
Round of 16 Samuel Walker & Tin-Tin Ho England $200
Round of 16 Lubomir Pistej & Barbora Balazova Slovakia $200
Round of 16 Borgar Haug & Tatiana Kukulkova Norway $200
Round of 16 Emmanuel Lebesson & Jia Nan Yuan France $200

The 2023 WTT Contender Doha money list

Every player the week paid, richest first

103 players

# Player Federation How far they got Won here
01 Hugo Calderano Brazil Men's Singles champion $5,000
02 Siqi Fan China Women's Singles champion $5,000
03 Rui Zhang China Women's Singles finalist, Women's Doubles champion $3,000
04 Woojin Jang South Korea Men's Singles finalist, Men's Doubles semifinals, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $2,875
05 Shidong Lin China Men's Singles semifinals, Mixed Doubles champion, Men's Doubles round of 16 $2,100
06 Manika Batra India Women's Singles semifinals, Mixed Doubles semifinals $1,750
07 Peng Xiang China Men's Singles semifinals, Men's Doubles semifinals $1,725
08 Man Kuai China Mixed Doubles champion, Women's Doubles champion, Women's Singles round of 16 $1,700
09 Jonghoon Lim South Korea Men's Singles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles finalist, Men's Doubles semifinals $1,650
10 Weishan Liu China Women's Singles semifinals $1,500
11 Licen Yuan China Men's Singles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles semifinals $1,250
12 Hyojoo Choi South Korea Women's Singles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles semifinals $1,250
13 Yubin Shin South Korea Mixed Doubles finalist, Women's Doubles finalist, Women's Singles round of 32 $1,212
14 Jihee Jeon South Korea Women's Doubles finalist, Women's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $1,212
15 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei Women's Singles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,125
16 Tianyi Qian China Women's Singles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,125
17 Seungmin Cho South Korea Men's Doubles finalist, Men's Singles round of 16 $1,062
18 Sangsu Lee South Korea Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
19 Marcos Freitas Portugal Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
20 Dora Madarasz Hungary Women's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $950
21 Lubomir Pistej Slovakia Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $900
22 Robert Gardos Austria Men's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $850
23 Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong Mixed Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $850
24 Elizabeta Samara Romania Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $800
25 Jia Nan Yuan France Women's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $800
26 Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $800
27 Annett Kaufmann Germany Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $800
28 Bernadette Szocs Romania Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $775
29 Maria Xiao Spain Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $750
30 Sharath Kamal Achanta India Men's Singles round of 16 $700
31 Lubomir Jancarik Czechia Men's Singles round of 16 $700
32 Tomislav Pucar Croatia Men's Singles round of 16 $700
33 Ricardo Walther Germany Men's Singles round of 16 $700
34 Qihao Zhou China Men's Singles round of 16 $700
35 Cheonhui Joo South Korea Women's Singles round of 16 $700
36 Yi Chen China Women's Singles round of 16 $700
37 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India Mixed Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 32 $700
38 Adina Diaconu Romania Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $700
39 Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $650
40 Emmanuel Lebesson France Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $650
41 Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $600
42 Vitor Ishiy Brazil Men's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $550
43 Yanning Liang China Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $550
44 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $550
45 Ahmad Khalil Al-Mohannadi Qatar Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $550
46 Barbora Balazova Slovakia Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $550
47 Sabine Winter Germany Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $550
48 Bruna Takahashi Brazil Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $550
49 Georgina Pota Hungary Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $550
50 Ziyang Yu China Men's Doubles champion $500
51 Kai Zhou China Men's Doubles champion $500
52 Angel Naranjo Puerto Rico Men's Singles round of 32 $450
53 Quadri Aruna Nigeria Men's Singles round of 32 $450
54 Mattias Falck Sweden Men's Singles round of 32 $450
55 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan Men's Singles round of 32 $450
56 Anton Kallberg Sweden Men's Singles round of 32 $450
57 Benedikt Duda Germany Men's Singles round of 32 $450
58 Milosz Redzimski Poland Men's Singles round of 32 $450
59 Andrej Gacina Croatia Men's Singles round of 32 $450
60 Zhuojia He China Women's Singles round of 32 $450
61 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei Women's Singles round of 32 $450
62 Hana Goda Egypt Women's Singles round of 32 $450
63 Hyowon Suh South Korea Women's Singles round of 32 $450
64 Maryam Ali Qatar Women's Singles round of 32 $450
65 Xia Lian Ni Luxembourg Women's Singles round of 32 $450
66 Nina Mittelham Germany Women's Singles round of 32 $450
67 Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong Mixed Doubles semifinals, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $400
68 Sofia Polcanova Austria Women's Doubles semifinals, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $375
69 Jaehyun An South Korea Men's Doubles finalist $363
70 Nandor Ecseki Hungary Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $300
71 Alvaro Robles Spain Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles round of 16 $250
72 Zion Lee South Korea Women's Doubles semifinals $225
73 Ovidiu Ionescu Romania Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $200
74 Tin-Tin Ho England Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $200
75 Adam Szudi Hungary Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
76 Kwan Kit Ho Hong Kong Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
77 Nima Alamian Iran Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
78 Noshad Alamiyan Iran Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
79 Orawan Paranang Thailand Women's Doubles quarterfinals $150
80 Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong Women's Doubles quarterfinals $150
81 Debora Vivarelli Italy Women's Doubles quarterfinals $150
82 Giorgia Piccolin Italy Women's Doubles quarterfinals $150
83 Yuanyu Chen China Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
84 Cedric Nuytinck Belgium Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
85 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
86 Sajad Hosseini Iran Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
87 Navid Shams Iran Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
88 Fei Xue China Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
89 Hsin-Yu Li Chinese Taipei Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
90 Wang-Wei Peng Chinese Taipei Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
91 Mohammed Abdulwahhab Qatar Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
92 Cristian Pletea Romania Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
93 Hsing-Yin Liu Chinese Taipei Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
94 Samuel Walker England Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
95 Borgar Haug Norway Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
96 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
97 Andreea Dragoman Romania Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
98 Anna Wegrzyn Poland Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
99 Katarzyna Wegrzyn Poland Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
100 Karoline Mischek Austria Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
101 Xunyao Shi China Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
102 Franziska Schreiner Germany Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
103 Chantal Mantz Germany 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

30 federations paid

China $21k South Korea $12k Brazil $6,100 Chinese Taipei $3,875 India $3,150 Germany $3,150 Romania $2,675 Hungary $1,950 Slovakia $1,550 Hong Kong $1,550 France $1,450 Austria $1,325 Croatia $1,150 Qatar $1,100 Portugal $1,025

Every other WTT Contender Doha

The same event in the years either side

1 other edition

Year Edition Venue Players paid Prize pot
2024 WTT Contender Doha 2024 Lusail Sports Arena 105 $80,000

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
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
2023 WTT Contender Durban WTT Contender 75 $75,000
2023 WTT Contender Amman WTT Contender 104 $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

Frequently asked questions

How much does the WTT Contender Doha 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 Doha 2023?

$75,000 across 5 draws, played in Lusail Sports Arena between 2023-01-15 to 2023-01-21.

Who won the WTT Contender Doha 2023?

Hugo Calderano took the men's singles and $5,000. Siqi Fan took the women's singles and $5,000. Ziyang Yu and Kai Zhou took the men's doubles and $1,000. Rui Zhang and Man Kuai 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 Doha?

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 Doha 2023?

103, from 30 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 Doha?

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 Doha

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