WTT CONTENDER · 2024
WTT Contender Mendoza 2024 prize money
A $80,000 week in Aconcagua Arena, 2024-05-27 to 2024-06-02. The champion takes $5,000, 6.3% 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 $80k
TO THE CHAMPION $5k
DRAWS 5
PLAYERS PAID 95
FEDERATIONS 25
The 2024 WTT Contender Mendoza at a glance
What the week is, and where it sits on the tour
- Tier
- WTT Contender
- Venue
- Aconcagua Arena
- Played
- 2024-05-27 to 2024-06-02
- Prize pot
- $80,000
- Champion's cheque
- $5,000
- Editions of this event
- 1
The prize ladder
What each place is worth, as published
| Place | Draws it applies to | Ranking points | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champion the cheque every draw is played for | Singles | 400 | $5,000 |
| Finalist | Singles | 280 | $2,500 |
| Semifinals | Singles | 140 | $1,500 |
| Quarterfinals | Singles | 70 | $1,050 |
| Champion | Doubles | Mixed | 400 | $1,000 |
| Round of 16 | Singles | 35 | $775 |
| Finalist | Doubles | Mixed | 280 | $750 |
| Round of 32 | Singles | 4 | $525 |
| Semifinals | Doubles | Mixed | 140 | $450 |
| Quarterfinals | Doubles | Mixed | 70 | $325 |
| Round of 16 | Doubles | Mixed | 4 | $225 |
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
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
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
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
Women's Singles32 paid places
Men's Doubles12 paid places
| Place | Player | Federation | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | Horacio Cifuentes & Santiago Lorenzo | Argentina | $1,000 |
| Finalist | Vitor Ishiy & Guilherme Teodoro | Brazil | $750 |
| Semifinals | Manush Utpalbhai Shah & Manav Vikash Thakkar | India | $450 |
| Semifinals | Jaehyun An & Junsung Oh | South Korea | $450 |
| Quarterfinals | Kijeong Cho & Dongsoo Kang | South Korea | $325 |
| Quarterfinals | Yi-Hsin Feng & Tzu-Yi Yang | Chinese Taipei | $325 |
| Quarterfinals | Nicolas Callaba & Alexis Orencel | Argentina | $325 |
| Quarterfinals | Martin Bentancor & Francisco Sanchi | Argentina | $325 |
| Round of 16 | Gaston Alto & Luciano Alto | Argentina | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Carlos Ishida & Leonardo Iizuka | Brazil | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Oscar Enrique Gonzales & Tomas Saavedra | Argentina | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Andrea Puppo & Matteo Mutti | Italy | $225 |
Women's Doubles15 paid places
| Place | Player | Federation | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | Miyu Nagasaki & Sakura Mori | Japan | $1,000 |
| Finalist | Hsien-Tzu Cheng & Tung-Chuan Chien | Chinese Taipei | $750 |
| Semifinals | Barbora Balazova & Hana Matelova | Slovakia | $450 |
| Semifinals | Mo Zhang & Ivy Liao | Canada | $450 |
| Quarterfinals | Ivana Malobabic & Paulina Vega | Croatia | $325 |
| Quarterfinals | Ema Labosova & Tatiana Kukulkova | Slovakia | $325 |
| Quarterfinals | Giulia Takahashi & Laura Watanabe | Brazil | $325 |
| Quarterfinals | Camille Lutz & Audrey Zarif | France | $325 |
| Round of 16 | Lucia Cordero & Valentina Rios | Guatemala | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Jessica Prates & Lhays Stolarski | Brazil | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Ana Codina & Arantxa Cossio Aceves | Argentina | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Camila Arguelles & Candela Molero | Argentina | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Franziska Schreiner & Sofia-Xuan Zhang | Germany | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Victoria Strassburger & Sofia Kano | Brazil | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Abril Iwasa & Alma Marcial | Argentina | $225 |
Mixed Doubles16 paid places
| Place | Player | Federation | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | Yuta Tanaka & Miyu Nagasaki | Japan | $1,000 |
| Finalist | Kristian Karlsson & Christina Kallberg | Sweden | $750 |
| Semifinals | Guilherme Teodoro & Giulia Takahashi | Brazil | $450 |
| Semifinals | Lubomir Pistej & Barbora Balazova | Slovakia | $450 |
| Quarterfinals | Lautaro Sato & Valentina Rios | Argentina | $325 |
| Quarterfinals | Alvaro Robles & Maria Xiao | Spain | $325 |
| Quarterfinals | Horacio Cifuentes & Camila Arguelles | Argentina | $325 |
| Quarterfinals | Carlos Ishida & Victoria Strassburger | Brazil | $325 |
| Round of 16 | Tzu-Yi Yang & Tung-Chuan Chien | Chinese Taipei | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Martin Bentancor & Ana Codina | Argentina | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Manush Utpalbhai Shah & Diya Parag Chitale | India | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Nicolas Callaba & Alma Marcial | Argentina | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Leonardo Iizuka & Laura Watanabe | Brazil | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Santiago Lorenzo & Candela Molero | Argentina | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Francisco Sanchi & Candela Sanchi | Argentina | $225 |
| Round of 16 | Hugo Deschamps & Tatiana Kukulkova | France | $225 |
The 2024 WTT Contender Mendoza money list
Every player the week paid, richest first
| # | Player | Federation | How far they got | Won here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Sakura Mori | Japan | Women's Singles champion, Women's Doubles champion | $5,500 |
| 02 | Benedikt Duda | Germany | Men's Singles champion | $5,000 |
| 03 | Alvaro Robles | Spain | Men's Singles finalist, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals | $2,663 |
| 04 | Yi-Hua Huang | Chinese Taipei | Women's Singles finalist | $2,500 |
| 05 | Hsien-Tzu Cheng | Chinese Taipei | Women's Singles semifinals, Women's Doubles finalist | $1,875 |
| 06 | Miyu Nagasaki | Japan | Mixed Doubles champion, Women's Doubles champion, Women's Singles round of 16 | $1,775 |
| 07 | Jaehyun An | South Korea | Men's Singles semifinals, Men's Doubles semifinals | $1,725 |
| 08 | Yuta Tanaka | Japan | Men's Singles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles champion | $1,550 |
| 09 | Tung-Chuan Chien | Chinese Taipei | Women's Singles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles finalist, Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $1,538 |
| 10 | Tomislav Pucar | Croatia | Men's Singles semifinals | $1,500 |
| 11 | Hsing-Yin Liu | Chinese Taipei | Women's Singles semifinals | $1,500 |
| 12 | Santiago Lorenzo | Argentina | Men's Doubles champion, Men's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $1,387 |
| 13 | Martin Bentancor | Argentina | Men's Singles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $1,325 |
| 14 | Manav Vikash Thakkar | India | Men's Singles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles semifinals | $1,275 |
| 15 | Hana Matelova | Czechia | Women's Singles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles semifinals | $1,275 |
| 16 | Ivana Malobabic | Croatia | Women's Singles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $1,212 |
| 17 | Horacio Cifuentes | Argentina | Men's Doubles champion, Men's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals | $1,188 |
| 18 | Vitor Ishiy | Brazil | Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles finalist | $1,150 |
| 19 | Christina Kallberg | Sweden | Women's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles finalist | $1,150 |
| 20 | Guilherme Teodoro | Brazil | Men's Doubles finalist, Men's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles semifinals | $1,125 |
| 21 | Lilian Bardet | France | Men's Singles quarterfinals | $1,050 |
| 22 | Eunhye Lee | South Korea | Women's Singles quarterfinals | $1,050 |
| 23 | Lubomir Pistej | Slovakia | Men's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles semifinals | $1,000 |
| 24 | Mo Zhang | Canada | Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles semifinals | $1,000 |
| 25 | Barbora Balazova | Slovakia | Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles semifinals, Women's Doubles semifinals | $975 |
| 26 | Maria Xiao | Spain | Women's Singles round of 16, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals | $938 |
| 27 | Audrey Zarif | France | Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $938 |
| 28 | Giulia Takahashi | Brazil | Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles semifinals, Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $912 |
| 29 | Kristian Karlsson | Sweden | Mixed Doubles finalist, Men's Singles round of 32 | $900 |
| 30 | Franziska Schreiner | Germany | Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $887 |
| 31 | Francisco Sanchi | Argentina | Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $800 |
| 32 | Tatiana Kukulkova | Slovakia | Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $800 |
| 33 | Camila Arguelles | Argentina | Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $800 |
| 34 | Harmeet Desai | India | Men's Singles round of 16 | $775 |
| 35 | Joao Geraldo | Portugal | Men's Singles round of 16 | $775 |
| 36 | Steffen Mengel | Germany | Men's Singles round of 16 | $775 |
| 37 | Tiago Apolonia | Portugal | Men's Singles round of 16 | $775 |
| 38 | Martin Allegro | Belgium | Men's Singles round of 16 | $775 |
| 39 | Fu Yu | Portugal | Women's Singles round of 16 | $775 |
| 40 | Nayeong Kim | South Korea | Women's Singles round of 16 | $775 |
| 41 | Junsung Oh | South Korea | Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles semifinals | $750 |
| 42 | Alma Marcial | Argentina | Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $750 |
| 43 | Candela Molero | Argentina | Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $750 |
| 44 | Ana Codina | Argentina | Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $750 |
| 45 | Yi-Hsin Feng | Chinese Taipei | Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $688 |
| 46 | Camille Lutz | France | Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $688 |
| 47 | Cedric Nuytinck | Belgium | Men's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 48 | Niagol Stoyanov | Italy | Men's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 49 | Daniel Gonzalez | Puerto Rico | Men's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 50 | Benedek Olah | Finland | Men's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 51 | Can Akkuzu | France | Men's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 52 | Brian Afanador | Puerto Rico | Men's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 53 | Alberto Mino | Ecuador | Men's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 54 | Ruwen Filus | Germany | Men's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 55 | Jules Rolland | France | Men's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 56 | Chih-Yuan Chuang | Chinese Taipei | Men's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 57 | Debora Vivarelli | Italy | Women's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 58 | Zion Lee | South Korea | Women's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 59 | Izabela Lupulesku | Serbia | Women's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 60 | Jieni Shao | Portugal | Women's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 61 | Hana Arapovic | Croatia | Women's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 62 | Sabine Winter | Germany | Women's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 63 | Sibel Altinkaya | Turkey | Women's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 64 | Giorgia Piccolin | Italy | Women's Singles round of 32 | $525 |
| 65 | Manush Utpalbhai Shah | India | Men's Doubles semifinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $338 |
| 66 | Tzu-Yi Yang | Chinese Taipei | Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $275 |
| 67 | Nicolas Callaba | Argentina | Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $275 |
| 68 | Valentina Rios | Chile | Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $275 |
| 69 | Carlos Ishida | Brazil | Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles round of 16 | $275 |
| 70 | Victoria Strassburger | Brazil | Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $275 |
| 71 | Laura Watanabe | Brazil | Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $275 |
| 72 | Ivy Liao | Canada | Women's Doubles semifinals | $225 |
| 73 | Leonardo Iizuka | Brazil | Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $225 |
| 74 | Kijeong Cho | South Korea | Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $162 |
| 75 | Dongsoo Kang | South Korea | Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $162 |
| 76 | Alexis Orencel | Argentina | Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $162 |
| 77 | Lautaro Sato | Argentina | Mixed Doubles quarterfinals | $162 |
| 78 | Paulina Vega | Chile | Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $162 |
| 79 | Ema Labosova | Slovakia | Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $162 |
| 80 | Gaston Alto | Argentina | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 81 | Luciano Alto | Argentina | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 82 | Oscar Enrique Gonzales | Argentina | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 83 | Tomas Saavedra | Argentina | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 84 | Andrea Puppo | Italy | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 85 | Matteo Mutti | Italy | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 86 | Diya Parag Chitale | India | Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 87 | Candela Sanchi | Italy | Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 88 | Hugo Deschamps | France | Mixed Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 89 | Lucia Cordero | Guatemala | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 90 | Jessica Prates | Brazil | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 91 | Lhays Stolarski | Brazil | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 92 | Arantxa Cossio Aceves | Mexico | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 93 | Sofia-Xuan Zhang | Spain | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 94 | Sofia Kano | Brazil | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
| 95 | Abril Iwasa | Argentina | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $113 |
Which federations took the money home
The week's cheques added up by the flag on the entry
The weeks around this one on the calendar
What the tour was paying immediately before and after
| Year | Event | Tier | Players paid | Prize pot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | WTT Feeder Beirut II | WTT Feeder | 105 | $22,500 |
| 2024 | WTT Feeder Otocec | WTT Feeder | 142 | $22,500 |
| 2024 | WTT Champions Incheon | WTT Champions | 64 | $300,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Feeder Varazdin | WTT Feeder | 147 | $22,500 |
| 2024 | WTT Feeder Düsseldorf | WTT Feeder | 119 | $22,500 |
| 2024 | WTT Feeder Havirov | WTT Feeder | 115 | $22,500 |
| 2024 | Saudi Smash | Grand Smash | 159 | $2,000,000$2.0m |
| 2024 | WTT Feeder Cappadocia | WTT Feeder | 101 | $22,500 |
| 2024 | WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro | WTT Contender | 103 | $80,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Contender Taiyuan | WTT Contender | 82 | $80,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Champions Chongqing | WTT Champions | 63 | $800,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Contender Zagreb | WTT Contender | 106 | $80,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Star Contender Ljubljana | WTT Star Contender | 126 | $250,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Contender Lagos | WTT Contender | 80 | $80,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Contender Tunis | WTT Contender | 86 | $80,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Star Contender Bangkok | WTT Star Contender | 112 | $250,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Contender Lima | WTT Contender | 66 | $80,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Feeder Olomouc | WTT Feeder | 107 | $40,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Feeder Muscat | WTT Feeder | 70 | $22,500 |
| 2024 | WTT Contender Almaty | WTT Contender | 94 | $80,000 |
Frequently asked questions
How much does the WTT Contender Mendoza 2024 winner get?
$5,000, out of a $80,000 pot. That is 6.3% of the week's prize money on one cheque.
What is the total prize money at the WTT Contender Mendoza 2024?
$80,000 across 5 draws, played in Aconcagua Arena between 2024-05-27 to 2024-06-02.
Who won the WTT Contender Mendoza 2024?
Benedikt Duda took the men's singles and $5,000. Sakura Mori took the women's singles and $5,000. Horacio Cifuentes and Santiago Lorenzo took the men's doubles and $1,000. Miyu Nagasaki and Sakura Mori took the women's doubles and $1,000. Yuta Tanaka and Miyu Nagasaki took the mixed doubles and $1,000.
How far down the draw does the money go at the WTT Contender Mendoza?
To round of 16, which pays $225. The ladder has 11 rungs on it, and $5,000 at the top is 22 times the bottom one.
How many players got paid at the WTT Contender Mendoza 2024?
95, from 25 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 Mendoza?
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 2024 WTT Contender Mendoza
- Sakura Mori
- Benedikt Duda
- Alvaro Robles
- Yi-Hua Huang
- Hsien-Tzu Cheng
- Miyu Nagasaki
- Jaehyun An
- Yuta Tanaka
- Tung-Chuan Chien
- Tomislav Pucar
- Hsing-Yin Liu
- Santiago Lorenzo
- Martin Bentancor
- Manav Vikash Thakkar
- Hana Matelova
- Ivana Malobabic
- Horacio Cifuentes
- Vitor Ishiy
- Christina Kallberg
- Guilherme Teodoro
- Lilian Bardet
- Eunhye Lee
- Lubomir Pistej
- Mo Zhang
- Barbora Balazova
- Maria Xiao
- Audrey Zarif
- Giulia Takahashi
- Kristian Karlsson
- Franziska Schreiner
- Francisco Sanchi
- Tatiana Kukulkova
- Camila Arguelles
- Harmeet Desai
- Joao Geraldo
- Steffen Mengel
- Tiago Apolonia
- Martin Allegro
- Fu Yu
- Nayeong Kim
- Junsung Oh
- Candela Molero
- Ana Codina
- Yi-Hsin Feng
- Camille Lutz
- Cedric Nuytinck
- Niagol Stoyanov
- Daniel Gonzalez