WTT CONTENDER · 2026
WTT Contender Muscat 2026 prize money
A $100,000 week in Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex, 2026-01-19 to 2026-01-24. 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 97
FEDERATIONS 24
The 2026 WTT Contender Muscat at a glance
What the week is, and where it sits on the tour
- Tier
- WTT Contender
- Venue
- Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex
- Played
- 2026-01-19 to 2026-01-24
- Prize pot
- $100,000
- Champion's cheque
- $5,000
- Editions of this event
- 5
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 |
| Champion | Doubles | 400 | $2,500 |
| Finalist | Singles | 280 | $2,500 |
| Finalist | Doubles | 280 | $1,500 |
| Semifinals | Singles | 180 | $1,275 |
| Quarterfinals | Singles | 120 | $1,025 |
| Semifinals | Doubles | 180 | $950 |
| Round of 16 | Singles | 30 | $825 |
| Round of 32 | Singles | 4 | $650 |
| Quarterfinals | Doubles | 45 | $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
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
| Place | Player | Federation | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | Ruibo Wen | China | $5,000 |
| Finalist | Patrick Franziska | Germany | $2,500 |
| Semifinals | Yuanyu Chen | China | $1,275 |
| Semifinals | Darko Jorgic | Slovenia | $1,275 |
| Quarterfinals | Anton Kallberg | Sweden | $1,025 |
| Quarterfinals | Junsong Chen | China | $1,025 |
| Quarterfinals | Chun Ting Wong | Hong Kong | $1,025 |
| Quarterfinals | Shidong Lin | China | $1,025 |
| Round of 16 | Andrej Gacina | Croatia | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Navid Shams | Iran | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Manush Shah | India | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Kirill Gerassimenko | Kazakhstan | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Youzheng Huang | China | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Peng Xiang | China | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Benedikt Duda | Germany | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Vladimir Sidorenko | Neutral Athletes | $825 |
| Round of 32 | Kwan To Yiu | Hong Kong | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Lilian Bardet | France | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Jingkun Liang | China | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Yingbin Xu | China | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Omar Assar | Egypt | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Thibault Poret | France | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Fei Xue | China | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Koen Pang | Singapore | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Milosz Redzimski | Poland | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Alvaro Robles | Spain | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Tomislav Pucar | Croatia | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Sathiyan Gnanasekaran | India | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Guan-Hong Kuo | Chinese Taipei | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Yu-An Chang | Chinese Taipei | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Manav Thakkar | India | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Ricardo Walther | Germany | $650 |
Women's Singles32 paid places
| Place | Player | Federation | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | Xunyao Shi | China | $5,000 |
| Finalist | Zhuojia He | China | $2,500 |
| Semifinals | Hoi Kem Doo | Hong Kong | $1,275 |
| Semifinals | Geman Zong | China | $1,275 |
| Quarterfinals | I-Ching Cheng | Chinese Taipei | $1,025 |
| Quarterfinals | Anna Hursey | Wales | $1,025 |
| Quarterfinals | Yuxuan Qin | China | $1,025 |
| Quarterfinals | Jian Zeng | Singapore | $1,025 |
| Round of 16 | Elizabet Abraamian | Neutral Athletes | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Nina Mittelham | Germany | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Xiaotong Wang | China | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Manika Batra | India | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Yi-Tian Yeh | Chinese Taipei | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Yiyun Yang | China | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Sibel Altinkaya | Turkey | $825 |
| Round of 16 | Xiaona Shan | Germany | $825 |
| Round of 32 | Linda Bergstrom | Sweden | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Yi Xu | China | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Ming Ying Loy | Singapore | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Charlotte Lutz | France | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Ayhika Mukherjee | India | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Chi-Shiuan Chen | Chinese Taipei | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Yuan Wan | Germany | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Tsz Tung Su | Hong Kong | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Yu-Jie Huang | Chinese Taipei | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Feier Han | China | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Fu Yu | Portugal | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Dina Meshref | Egypt | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Shuhan Fan | China | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Jieni Shao | Portugal | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Tin-Tin Ho | England | $650 |
| Round of 32 | Maria Panfilova | Neutral Athletes | $650 |
Men's Doubles16 paid places
| Place | Player | Federation | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | Shidong Lin & Youzheng Huang | China | $2,500 |
| Finalist | Benedikt Duda & Patrick Franziska | Germany | $1,500 |
| Semifinals | Manush Shah & Manav Thakkar | India | $950 |
| Semifinals | Izaac Quek & Koen Pang | Singapore | $950 |
| Quarterfinals | Chun Ting Wong & Baldwin Chan | Hong Kong | $550 |
| Quarterfinals | Vincent Picard & Borgar Haug | France | $550 |
| Quarterfinals | Juan Perez & Daniel Berzosa | Spain | $550 |
| Quarterfinals | Noshad Alamiyan & Navid Shams | Iran | $550 |
| Round of 16 | Siu Hang Lam & Kwan To Yiu | Hong Kong | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Akash Pal & Sathiyan Gnanasekaran | India | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Ali Alkhadrawi & Abdulaziz Shulaybi Bu | Saudi Arabia | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Kwan Kit Ho & Man Ho Kwan | Hong Kong | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Jingkun Liang & Ruibo Wen | China | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Mohammed Al Mutawa & Bilal Al Rashdi | Oman | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Thibault Poret & Esteban Dorr | France | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Ankur Bhattacharjee & Payas Jain | India | $350 |
Women's Doubles16 paid places
| Place | Player | Federation | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | Yuxuan Qin & Geman Zong | China | $2,500 |
| Finalist | Hoi Kem Doo & Wing Lam Ng | Hong Kong | $1,500 |
| Semifinals | Yashaswini Ghorpade & Ayhika Mukherjee | India | $950 |
| Semifinals | Xunyao Shi & Xiaotong Wang | China | $950 |
| Quarterfinals | Nina Mittelham & Anna Hursey | Germany | $550 |
| Quarterfinals | Yun-En Tsai & Yu-Jie Huang | Chinese Taipei | $550 |
| Quarterfinals | Swastika Ghosh & Taneesha Kotecha | India | $550 |
| Quarterfinals | Camille Lutz & Audrey Zarif | France | $550 |
| Round of 16 | Feier Han & Ruixuan Yao | China | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Manika Batra & Diya Chitale | India | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Fu Yu & Jieni Shao | Portugal | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Ming Ying Loy & Lin Qian Ser | Singapore | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Ece Harac & Sibel Altinkaya | Turkey | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Elizabet Abraamian & Vlada Voronina | Neutral Athletes | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Tatiana Kukulkova & Tin-Tin Ho | Slovakia | $350 |
| Round of 16 | Franziska Schreiner & Sophia Klee | Germany | $350 |
The 2026 WTT Contender Muscat money list
Every player the week paid, richest first
| # | Player | Federation | How far they got | Won here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Xunyao Shi | China | Women's Singles champion, Women's Doubles semifinals | $5,475 |
| 02 | Ruibo Wen | China | Men's Singles champion, Men's Doubles round of 16 | $5,175 |
| 03 | Patrick Franziska | Germany | Men's Singles finalist, Men's Doubles finalist | $3,250 |
| 04 | Geman Zong | China | Women's Doubles champion, Women's Singles semifinals | $2,525 |
| 05 | Zhuojia He | China | Women's Singles finalist | $2,500 |
| 06 | Shidong Lin | China | Men's Doubles champion, Men's Singles quarterfinals | $2,275 |
| 07 | Yuxuan Qin | China | Women's Doubles champion, Women's Singles quarterfinals | $2,275 |
| 08 | Youzheng Huang | China | Men's Doubles champion, Men's Singles round of 16 | $2,075 |
| 09 | Hoi Kem Doo | Hong Kong | Women's Doubles finalist, Women's Singles semifinals | $2,025 |
| 10 | Benedikt Duda | Germany | Men's Doubles finalist, Men's Singles round of 16 | $1,575 |
| 11 | Chun Ting Wong | Hong Kong | Men's Singles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $1,300 |
| 12 | Anna Hursey | Wales | Women's Singles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $1,300 |
| 13 | Manush Shah | India | Men's Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 16 | $1,300 |
| 14 | Xiaotong Wang | China | Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 16 | $1,300 |
| 15 | Yuanyu Chen | China | Men's Singles semifinals | $1,275 |
| 16 | Darko Jorgic | Slovenia | Men's Singles semifinals | $1,275 |
| 17 | Manav Thakkar | India | Men's Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 32 | $1,125 |
| 18 | Koen Pang | Singapore | Men's Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 32 | $1,125 |
| 19 | Ayhika Mukherjee | India | Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 32 | $1,125 |
| 20 | Navid Shams | Iran | Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $1,100 |
| 21 | Nina Mittelham | Germany | Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $1,100 |
| 22 | Anton Kallberg | Sweden | Men's Singles quarterfinals | $1,025 |
| 23 | Junsong Chen | China | Men's Singles quarterfinals | $1,025 |
| 24 | I-Ching Cheng | Chinese Taipei | Women's Singles quarterfinals | $1,025 |
| 25 | Jian Zeng | Singapore | Women's Singles quarterfinals | $1,025 |
| 26 | Elizabet Abraamian | Neutral Athletes | Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $1,000 |
| 27 | Manika Batra | India | Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $1,000 |
| 28 | Sibel Altinkaya | Turkey | Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $1,000 |
| 29 | Yu-Jie Huang | Chinese Taipei | Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $925 |
| 30 | Andrej Gacina | Croatia | Men's Singles round of 16 | $825 |
| 31 | Kirill Gerassimenko | Kazakhstan | Men's Singles round of 16 | $825 |
| 32 | Peng Xiang | China | Men's Singles round of 16 | $825 |
| 33 | Vladimir Sidorenko | Neutral Athletes | Men's Singles round of 16 | $825 |
| 34 | Yi-Tian Yeh | Chinese Taipei | Women's Singles round of 16 | $825 |
| 35 | Yiyun Yang | China | Women's Singles round of 16 | $825 |
| 36 | Xiaona Shan | Germany | Women's Singles round of 16 | $825 |
| 37 | Kwan To Yiu | Hong Kong | Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 | $825 |
| 38 | Jingkun Liang | China | Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 | $825 |
| 39 | Thibault Poret | France | Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 | $825 |
| 40 | Sathiyan Gnanasekaran | India | Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 | $825 |
| 41 | Ming Ying Loy | Singapore | Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $825 |
| 42 | Feier Han | China | Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $825 |
| 43 | Fu Yu | Portugal | Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $825 |
| 44 | Jieni Shao | Portugal | Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $825 |
| 45 | Tin-Tin Ho | England | Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 | $825 |
| 46 | Wing Lam Ng | Hong Kong | Women's Doubles finalist | $750 |
| 47 | Lilian Bardet | France | Men's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 48 | Yingbin Xu | China | Men's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 49 | Omar Assar | Egypt | Men's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 50 | Fei Xue | China | Men's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 51 | Milosz Redzimski | Poland | Men's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 52 | Alvaro Robles | Spain | Men's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 53 | Tomislav Pucar | Croatia | Men's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 54 | Guan-Hong Kuo | Chinese Taipei | Men's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 55 | Yu-An Chang | Chinese Taipei | Men's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 56 | Ricardo Walther | Germany | Men's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 57 | Linda Bergstrom | Sweden | Women's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 58 | Yi Xu | China | Women's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 59 | Charlotte Lutz | France | Women's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 60 | Chi-Shiuan Chen | Chinese Taipei | Women's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 61 | Yuan Wan | Germany | Women's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 62 | Tsz Tung Su | Hong Kong | Women's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 63 | Dina Meshref | Egypt | Women's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 64 | Shuhan Fan | China | Women's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 65 | Maria Panfilova | Neutral Athletes | Women's Singles round of 32 | $650 |
| 66 | Izaac Quek | Singapore | Men's Doubles semifinals | $475 |
| 67 | Yashaswini Ghorpade | India | Women's Doubles semifinals | $475 |
| 68 | Baldwin Chan | Hong Kong | Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $275 |
| 69 | Vincent Picard | France | Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $275 |
| 70 | Borgar Haug | Norway | Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $275 |
| 71 | Juan Perez | Spain | Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $275 |
| 72 | Daniel Berzosa | Spain | Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $275 |
| 73 | Noshad Alamiyan | Iran | Men's Doubles quarterfinals | $275 |
| 74 | Yun-En Tsai | Chinese Taipei | Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $275 |
| 75 | Swastika Ghosh | India | Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $275 |
| 76 | Taneesha Kotecha | India | Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $275 |
| 77 | Camille Lutz | France | Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $275 |
| 78 | Audrey Zarif | France | Women's Doubles quarterfinals | $275 |
| 79 | Siu Hang Lam | Hong Kong | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 80 | Akash Pal | India | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 81 | Ali Alkhadrawi | Saudi Arabia | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 82 | Abdulaziz Shulaybi Bu | Saudi Arabia | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 83 | Kwan Kit Ho | Hong Kong | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 84 | Man Ho Kwan | Hong Kong | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 85 | Mohammed Al Mutawa | Oman | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 86 | Bilal Al Rashdi | Oman | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 87 | Esteban Dorr | France | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 88 | Ankur Bhattacharjee | India | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 89 | Payas Jain | India | Men's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 90 | Ruixuan Yao | China | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 91 | Diya Chitale | India | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 92 | Lin Qian Ser | Singapore | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 93 | Ece Harac | Turkey | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 94 | Vlada Voronina | Neutral Athletes | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 95 | Tatiana Kukulkova | Slovakia | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 96 | Franziska Schreiner | Germany | Women's Doubles round of 16 | $175 |
| 97 | Sophia Klee | Germany | 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
Every other WTT Contender Muscat
The same event in the years either side
| Year | Edition | Venue | Players paid | Prize pot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | WTT Contender Muscat 2025 | Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex | 90 | $85,000 |
| 2024 | WTT Contender Muscat 2024 | Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex | 84 | $80,000 |
| 2023 | WTT Contender Muscat 2023 | Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex | 103 | $75,000 |
| 2022 | WTT Contender Muscat 2022 | Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex | 85 | $75,000 |
$75k 22
$75k 23
$80k 24
$85k 25
$100k 26
The weeks around this one on the calendar
What the tour was paying immediately before and after
| Year | Event | Tier | Players paid | Prize pot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2025 | WTT Star Contender Muscat | WTT Star Contender | 110 | $300,000 |
| 2025 | WTT Finals Hong Kong | WTT Finals | 33 | $1,300,000 |
| 2026 | WTT Champions Doha | WTT Champions | 64 | $500,000 |
| 2026 | WTT Feeder Vadodara | WTT Feeder | 64 | $30,000 |
| 2026 | WTT Star Contender Doha | WTT Star Contender | 113 | $300,000 |
| 2026 | WTT Feeder Doha | WTT Feeder | 64 | $30,000 |
| 2026 | WTT Feeder Lille | WTT Feeder | 64 | $30,000 |
| 2026 | WTT Feeder Cappadocia | WTT Feeder | 64 | $30,000 |
| 2026 | WTT Star Contender Chennai | WTT Star Contender | 109 | $300,000 |
| 2026 | Singapore Smash | Grand Smash | 182 | $1,550,000$1.5m |
| 2026 | WTT Feeder Düsseldorf | WTT Feeder | 97 | $30,000 |
| 2026 | WTT Feeder Otocec | WTT Feeder | 94 | $30,000 |
| 2026 | WTT Champions Chongqing | WTT Champions | 64 | $800,000 |
| 2026 | WTT Feeder Varazdin | WTT Feeder | 96 | $30,000 |
| 2026 | WTT Contender Tunis | WTT Contender | 87 | $100,000 |
Frequently asked questions
How much does the WTT Contender Muscat 2026 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 Muscat 2026?
$100,000 across 4 draws, played in Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex between 2026-01-19 to 2026-01-24.
Who won the WTT Contender Muscat 2026?
Ruibo Wen took the men's singles and $5,000. Xunyao Shi took the women's singles and $5,000. Shidong Lin and Youzheng Huang took the men's doubles and $2,500. Yuxuan Qin and Geman Zong took the women's doubles and $2,500.
How far down the draw does the money go at the WTT Contender Muscat?
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 Muscat 2026?
97, from 24 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 Muscat?
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 2026 WTT Contender Muscat
- Xunyao Shi
- Ruibo Wen
- Patrick Franziska
- Geman Zong
- Zhuojia He
- Shidong Lin
- Yuxuan Qin
- Youzheng Huang
- Hoi Kem Doo
- Benedikt Duda
- Chun Ting Wong
- Anna Hursey
- Manush Shah
- Xiaotong Wang
- Yuanyu Chen
- Darko Jorgic
- Manav Thakkar
- Koen Pang
- Ayhika Mukherjee
- Navid Shams
- Nina Mittelham
- Anton Kallberg
- Junsong Chen
- I-Ching Cheng
- Jian Zeng
- Elizabet Abraamian
- Manika Batra
- Sibel Altinkaya
- Yu-Jie Huang
- Andrej Gacina
- Kirill Gerassimenko
- Peng Xiang
- Vladimir Sidorenko
- Yi-Tian Yeh
- Yiyun Yang
- Xiaona Shan
- Kwan To Yiu
- Jingkun Liang
- Thibault Poret
- Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
- Ming Ying Loy
- Feier Han
- Fu Yu
- Jieni Shao
- Tin-Tin Ho
- Wing Lam Ng
- Lilian Bardet
- Yingbin Xu