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WTT CONTENDER · 2022

WTT Contender Nova Gorica 2022 prize money

A $75,000 week in Primary School Milojka Strukelj, 2022-10-31 to 2022-11-06. 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 107
FEDERATIONS 32

The 2022 WTT Contender Nova Gorica at a glance

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

Tier
WTT Contender
Venue
Primary School Milojka Strukelj
Played
2022-10-31 to 2022-11-06
Prize pot
$75,000
Champion's cheque
$5,000
Editions of this event
1

The prize ladder

What each place is worth, as published

14 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
Qualifying* Singles, Doubles 15 $0

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 5000x 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 (40) $16k
Round of 32 (32) $14k
Champion (5) $13k
Quarterfinals (20) $12k
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 Hiroto Shinozuka Japan $5,000
Finalist Darko Jorgic Slovenia $2,500
Semifinals Benedikt Duda Germany $1,500
Semifinals Mizuki Oikawa Japan $1,500
Quarterfinals Can Akkuzu France $1,025
Quarterfinals Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei $1,025
Quarterfinals Sangsu Lee South Korea $1,025
Quarterfinals Ruwen Filus Germany $1,025
Round of 16 Yuta Tanaka Japan $700
Round of 16 Iulian Chirita Romania $700
Round of 16 Tomislav Pucar Croatia $700
Round of 16 Andrej Gacina Croatia $700
Round of 16 Jonghoon Lim South Korea $700
Round of 16 Cedric Nuytinck Belgium $700
Round of 16 Liam Pitchford England $700
Round of 16 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan $700
Round of 32 Kristian Karlsson Sweden $450
Round of 32 Benedek Olah Finland $450
Round of 32 Deni Kozul Slovenia $450
Round of 32 Yaroslav Zhmudenko Ukraine $450
Round of 32 Tiago Apolonia Portugal $450
Round of 32 Kazuki Hamada Japan $450
Round of 32 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India $450
Round of 32 Simon Gauzy France $450
Round of 32 Jaehyun An South Korea $450
Round of 32 Marcos Freitas Portugal $450
Round of 32 Shunsuke Togami Japan $450
Round of 32 Paul Drinkhall England $450
Round of 32 Robert Gardos Austria $450
Round of 32 Yang Wang Slovakia $450
Round of 32 Emmanuel Lebesson France $450
Round of 32 Alvaro Robles Spain $450

Women's Singles32 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Yubin Shin South Korea $5,000
Finalist Xiaoxin Yang Monaco $2,500
Semifinals Haruna Ojio Japan $1,500
Semifinals Elizabeta Samara Romania $1,500
Quarterfinals Sibel Altinkaya Turkey $1,025
Quarterfinals Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand $1,025
Quarterfinals Jian Zeng Singapore $1,025
Quarterfinals Miyu Nagasaki Japan $1,025
Round of 16 Minhyung Jee Australia $700
Round of 16 Charlotte Lutz France $700
Round of 16 Margaryta Pesotska Ukraine $700
Round of 16 Manika Batra India $700
Round of 16 Hana Goda Egypt $700
Round of 16 Hana Matelova Czechia $700
Round of 16 Annett Kaufmann Germany $700
Round of 16 Xia Lian Ni Luxembourg $700
Round of 32 Bernadette Szocs Romania $450
Round of 32 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia $450
Round of 32 Camille Lutz France $450
Round of 32 Yangzi Liu Australia $450
Round of 32 Linda Bergstrom Sweden $450
Round of 32 Sreeja Akula India $450
Round of 32 Katarina Strazar Slovenia $450
Round of 32 Orawan Paranang Thailand $450
Round of 32 Yousra Helmy Egypt $450
Round of 32 Sabine Winter Germany $450
Round of 32 Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong $450
Round of 32 Christina Kallberg Sweden $450
Round of 32 Diya Parag Chitale India $450
Round of 32 Chantal Mantz Germany $450
Round of 32 Ana Tofant Slovenia $450
Round of 32 Barbora Balazova Slovakia $450

Men's Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Hiroto Shinozuka & Shunsuke Togami Japan $1,000
Finalist Darko Jorgic & Tomas Polansky Slovenia $725
Semifinals Yuta Tanaka & Mizuki Oikawa Japan $450
Semifinals Sangsu Lee & Daeseong Cho South Korea $450
Quarterfinals Martin Allegro & Florent Lambiet Belgium $300
Quarterfinals Ovidiu Ionescu & Alvaro Robles Romania $300
Quarterfinals Nandor Ecseki & Adam Szudi Hungary $300
Quarterfinals Siu Hang Lam & Pak Nam Ng Hong Kong $300
Round of 16 Jaehyun An & Seungmin Cho South Korea $200
Round of 16 Harmeet Desai & Manav Vikash Thakkar India $200
Round of 16 Benedek Olah & Alex Naumi Finland $200
Round of 16 Robert Gardos & Daniel Habesohn Austria $200
Round of 16 Liam Pitchford & Paul Drinkhall England $200
Round of 16 Felix Lebrun & Emmanuel Lebesson France $200
Round of 16 Cedric Nuytinck & Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium $200
Round of 16 Maciej Kubik & Samuel Kulczycki Poland $200

Women's Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Hoi Kem Doo & Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong $1,000
Finalist Linda Bergstrom & Christina Kallberg Sweden $725
Semifinals Adina Diaconu & Maria Xiao Romania $450
Semifinals Manika Batra & Archana Girish Kamath India $450
Quarterfinals Tatiana Kukulkova & Ema Labosova Slovakia $300
Quarterfinals Andreea Dragoman & Elizabeta Samara Romania $300
Quarterfinals Hayeong Kim & Yubin Shin South Korea $300
Quarterfinals Vivien Scholz & Amelie Solja Luxembourg $300
Round of 16 Barbora Balazova & Hana Matelova Slovakia $200
Round of 16 Tin-Tin Ho & Karoline Mischek England $200
Round of 16 Jian Zeng & Rui Xuan Goi Singapore $200
Round of 16 Minhyung Jee & Yangzi Liu Australia $200
Round of 16 Ana Tofant & Katarina Strazar Slovenia $200
Round of 16 Chantal Mantz & Yuan Wan Germany $200
Round of 16 Sreeja Akula & Diya Parag Chitale India $200
Round of 16 Debora Vivarelli & Giorgia Piccolin Italy $200

Mixed Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Jonghoon Lim & Yubin Shin South Korea $1,000
Finalist Sathiyan Gnanasekaran & Manika Batra India $800
Semifinals Ovidiu Ionescu & Bernadette Szocs Romania $500
Semifinals Nandor Ecseki & Dora Madarasz Hungary $500
Quarterfinals Cristian Pletea & Adina Diaconu Romania $300
Quarterfinals Manav Vikash Thakkar & Archana Girish Kamath India $300
Quarterfinals Borgar Haug & Yangzi Liu Norway $300
Quarterfinals Deni Kozul & Katarina Strazar Slovenia $300
Round of 16 Liam Pitchford & Tin-Tin Ho England $200
Round of 16 Niagol Stoyanov & Giorgia Piccolin Italy $200
Round of 16 Lubomir Pistej & Barbora Balazova Slovakia $200
Round of 16 John Oyebode & Gaia Monfardini Italy $200
Round of 16 Yang Wang & Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia $200
Round of 16 Alvaro Robles & Maria Xiao Spain $200
Round of 16 Eric Glod & Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg $200
Round of 16 Samuel Kulczycki & Katarzyna Wegrzyn Poland $200

The 2022 WTT Contender Nova Gorica money list

Every player the week paid, richest first

107 players

# Player Federation How far they got Won here
01 Yubin Shin South Korea Women's Singles champion, Mixed Doubles champion, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $5,650
02 Hiroto Shinozuka Japan Men's Singles champion, Men's Doubles champion $5,500
03 Darko Jorgic Slovenia Men's Singles finalist, Men's Doubles finalist $2,863
04 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco Women's Singles finalist $2,500
05 Mizuki Oikawa Japan Men's Singles semifinals, Men's Doubles semifinals $1,725
06 Elizabeta Samara Romania Women's Singles semifinals, Women's Doubles quarterfinals $1,650
07 Benedikt Duda Germany Men's Singles semifinals $1,500
08 Haruna Ojio Japan Women's Singles semifinals $1,500
09 Manika Batra India Mixed Doubles finalist, Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles semifinals $1,325
10 Sangsu Lee South Korea Men's Singles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles semifinals $1,250
11 Jonghoon Lim South Korea Mixed Doubles champion, Men's Singles round of 16 $1,200
12 Jian Zeng Singapore Women's Singles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,125
13 Can Akkuzu France Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
14 Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
15 Ruwen Filus Germany Men's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
16 Sibel Altinkaya Turkey Women's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
17 Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand Women's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
18 Miyu Nagasaki Japan Women's Singles quarterfinals $1,025
19 Shunsuke Togami Japan Men's Doubles champion, Men's Singles round of 32 $950
20 Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong Women's Doubles champion, Women's Singles round of 32 $950
21 Yuta Tanaka Japan Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles semifinals $925
22 Liam Pitchford England Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $900
23 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India Mixed Doubles finalist, Men's Singles round of 32 $850
24 Linda Bergstrom Sweden Women's Doubles finalist, Women's Singles round of 32 $812
25 Christina Kallberg Sweden Women's Doubles finalist, Women's Singles round of 32 $812
26 Cedric Nuytinck Belgium Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles round of 16 $800
27 Minhyung Jee Australia Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $800
28 Hana Matelova Czechia Women's Singles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $800
29 Iulian Chirita Romania Men's Singles round of 16 $700
30 Tomislav Pucar Croatia Men's Singles round of 16 $700
31 Andrej Gacina Croatia Men's Singles round of 16 $700
32 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan Men's Singles round of 16 $700
33 Charlotte Lutz France Women's Singles round of 16 $700
34 Margaryta Pesotska Ukraine Women's Singles round of 16 $700
35 Hana Goda Egypt Women's Singles round of 16 $700
36 Annett Kaufmann Germany Women's Singles round of 16 $700
37 Xia Lian Ni Luxembourg Women's Singles round of 16 $700
38 Bernadette Szocs Romania Mixed Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $700
39 Alvaro Robles Spain Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $700
40 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $700
41 Yangzi Liu Australia Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $700
42 Katarina Strazar Slovenia Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $700
43 Barbora Balazova Slovakia Women's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $650
44 Deni Kozul Slovenia Men's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $600
45 Benedek Olah Finland Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $550
46 Jaehyun An South Korea Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $550
47 Paul Drinkhall England Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $550
48 Robert Gardos Austria Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $550
49 Yang Wang Slovakia Men's Singles round of 32, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $550
50 Emmanuel Lebesson France Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $550
51 Sreeja Akula India Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $550
52 Diya Parag Chitale India Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $550
53 Chantal Mantz Germany Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $550
54 Ana Tofant Slovenia Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $550
55 Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong Women's Doubles champion $500
56 Kristian Karlsson Sweden Men's Singles round of 32 $450
57 Yaroslav Zhmudenko Ukraine Men's Singles round of 32 $450
58 Tiago Apolonia Portugal Men's Singles round of 32 $450
59 Kazuki Hamada Japan Men's Singles round of 32 $450
60 Simon Gauzy France Men's Singles round of 32 $450
61 Marcos Freitas Portugal Men's Singles round of 32 $450
62 Camille Lutz France Women's Singles round of 32 $450
63 Orawan Paranang Thailand Women's Singles round of 32 $450
64 Yousra Helmy Egypt Women's Singles round of 32 $450
65 Sabine Winter Germany Women's Singles round of 32 $450
66 Ovidiu Ionescu Romania Mixed Doubles semifinals, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $400
67 Nandor Ecseki Hungary Mixed Doubles semifinals, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $400
68 Adina Diaconu Romania Women's Doubles semifinals, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $375
69 Archana Girish Kamath India Women's Doubles semifinals, Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $375
70 Tomas Polansky Czechia Men's Doubles finalist $363
71 Maria Xiao Spain Women's Doubles semifinals, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $325
72 Dora Madarasz Hungary Mixed Doubles semifinals $250
73 Manav Vikash Thakkar India Mixed Doubles quarterfinals, Men's Doubles round of 16 $250
74 Daeseong Cho South Korea Men's Doubles semifinals $225
75 Samuel Kulczycki Poland Men's Doubles round of 16, Mixed Doubles round of 16 $200
76 Tin-Tin Ho England Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $200
77 Giorgia Piccolin Italy Mixed Doubles round of 16, Women's Doubles round of 16 $200
78 Martin Allegro Belgium Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
79 Florent Lambiet Belgium Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
80 Adam Szudi Hungary Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
81 Siu Hang Lam Hong Kong Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
82 Pak Nam Ng Hong Kong Men's Doubles quarterfinals $150
83 Cristian Pletea Romania Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $150
84 Borgar Haug Norway Mixed Doubles quarterfinals $150
85 Ema Labosova Slovakia Women's Doubles quarterfinals $150
86 Andreea Dragoman Romania Women's Doubles quarterfinals $150
87 Hayeong Kim South Korea Women's Doubles quarterfinals $150
88 Vivien Scholz Luxembourg Women's Doubles quarterfinals $150
89 Amelie Solja Austria Women's Doubles quarterfinals $150
90 Seungmin Cho South Korea Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
91 Harmeet Desai India Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
92 Alex Naumi Finland Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
93 Daniel Habesohn Austria Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
94 Felix Lebrun France Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
95 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
96 Maciej Kubik Poland Men's Doubles round of 16 $100
97 Niagol Stoyanov Italy Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
98 Lubomir Pistej Slovakia Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
99 John Oyebode Italy Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
100 Gaia Monfardini Italy Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
101 Eric Glod Luxembourg Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
102 Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
103 Katarzyna Wegrzyn Poland Mixed Doubles round of 16 $100
104 Karoline Mischek Austria Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
105 Rui Xuan Goi Singapore Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
106 Yuan Wan Germany Women's Doubles round of 16 $100
107 Debora Vivarelli Italy 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

32 federations paid

Japan $12k South Korea $9,125 Slovenia $4,712 Germany $4,325 Romania $4,125 India $4,000 France $3,275
Monaco $2,500
Slovakia $2,150 Sweden $2,075 Hong Kong $1,750 England $1,650 Australia $1,500 Thailand $1,475 Croatia $1,400

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 Star Contender European Summer Series WTT Star Contender 122 $250,000
2022 WTT Champions European Summer Series WTT Champions 64 $500,000
2022 WTT Feeder European Summer Series WTT Feeder 137 -
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 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 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

Frequently asked questions

How much does the WTT Contender Nova Gorica 2022 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 Nova Gorica 2022?

$75,000 across 5 draws, played in Primary School Milojka Strukelj between 2022-10-31 to 2022-11-06.

Who won the WTT Contender Nova Gorica 2022?

Hiroto Shinozuka took the men's singles and $5,000. Yubin Shin took the women's singles and $5,000. Hiroto Shinozuka and Shunsuke Togami took the men's doubles and $1,000. Hoi Kem Doo and Chengzhu Zhu took the women's doubles and $1,000. Jonghoon Lim and Yubin Shin took the mixed doubles and $1,000.

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

To qualifying*, which pays $0. The ladder has 14 rungs on it, and $5,000 at the top is 5000 times the bottom one.

How many players got paid at the WTT Contender Nova Gorica 2022?

107, from 32 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 Nova Gorica?

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 2022 WTT Contender Nova Gorica

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