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WTT STAR CONTENDER · CHENNAI

WTT Star Contender Chennai prize money

2 editions between 2025 to 2026 , with $17,000 to the champion at the richest of them. 168 players have been paid here.

Every edition of this event, what it put up, and the money list underneath it: who has collected the most at this one week of the calendar, across however many times they have played it.

BIGGEST POT $300k
TO THE CHAMPION $17k
EDITIONS 2
PLAYERS PAID 168
FIRST AND LAST 2025 to 2026

The WTT Star Contender Chennai money list

Everyone the event has paid, across every edition

168 players

# Player Federation Editions Titles Won here
01 Thibault Poret France 4 1 $19,700
02 Satsuki Odo Japan 3 1 $19,350
03 Lubomir Jancarik Czechia 1 1 $17,000
04 Junsung Oh South Korea 3 1 $14,033
05 Miwa Harimoto Japan 2 2 $11,750
06 Flavien Coton France 4 1 $11,400
07 Sakura Yokoi Japan 4 1 $9,350
08 Miu Hirano Japan 1 $9,025
09 Honoka Hashimoto Japan 1 $7,525
10 Nayeong Kim South Korea 4 $7,483
11 Jonghoon Lim South Korea 4 1 $7,133
12 Manav Thakkar India 4 $5,825
13 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei 2 $5,600
14 Ganghyeon Park South Korea 2 $5,350
15 Yubin Shin South Korea 2 $5,250
16 Snehit Suravajjula India 4 $5,075
17 Cheonhui Joo South Korea 4 $5,075
18 Miyu Nagasaki Japan 3 $4,750
19 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India 4 $4,613
20 Miyuu Kihara Japan 3 1 $4,450
21 Hanna Ryu South Korea 3 $4,133
22 Eunhye Lee South Korea 3 $4,050
23 Sachi Aoki Japan 2 1 $3,850
24 Harmeet Desai India 4 $3,712
25 Swastika Ghosh India 4 $3,663
26 Yuan Wan Germany 2 $3,600
27 Manush Shah India 4 $3,575
28 Payas Jain India 4 $3,513
29 Ankur Bhattacharjee India 4 $3,462
30 Diya Chitale India 4 $3,450
31 Yu-Jie Huang Chinese Taipei 3 $3,300
32 John Oyebode Italy 3 $3,200
33 Esteban Dorr France 4 $3,200
34 Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei 2 $3,100
35 Jaehyun An South Korea 2 1 $3,100
36 Yashaswini Ghorpade India 4 $3,000
37 Ayhika Mukherjee India 4 $2,975
38 Elias Ranefur Sweden 2 $2,850
39 Hitomi Sato Japan 2 $2,850
40 Andreea Dragoman Romania 2 $2,850
41 Minhyung Jee Australia 3 $2,850
42 Tomokazu Harimoto Japan 2 $2,850
43 Sora Matsushima Japan 2 $2,850
44 Suhana Saini India 4 $2,800
45 Divyanshi Bhowmick India 4 $2,775
46 Taneesha Kotecha India 4 $2,725
47 Kavya Bhatt India 3 $2,575
48 Anirban Ghosh India 4 $2,525
49 Sutirtha Mukherjee India 4 $2,525
50 Jonathan Groth Denmark 1 $2,500
51 Tomislav Pucar Croatia 1 $2,500
52 Adriana Diaz Puerto Rico 1 $2,500
53 Debora Vivarelli Italy 2 $2,450
54 Sharath Achanta India 2 $2,350
55 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany 1 $2,250
56 Yu-Han Peng Chinese Taipei 1 $2,250
57 Gyuhyeon Park South Korea 2 $2,200
58 Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg 2 $2,163
59 Joe Seyfried France 2 $2,100
60 Saki Shibata Japan 2 $2,100
61 Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong 2 $2,100
62 Baldwin Chan Hong Kong 2 $2,100
63 Nithya Mani India 3 $2,025
64 Divyansh Srivastava India 2 $2,000
65 Syndrela Das India 3 $1,875
66 Eduard Ionescu Romania 2 $1,825
67 Yi-Hua Huang Chinese Taipei 2 $1,800
68 Kwan Kit Ho Hong Kong 2 $1,750
69 Hwan Bae Australia 2 $1,750
70 Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong 2 $1,750
71 Sreeja Akula India 2 $1,750
72 Kristian Karlsson Sweden 2 $1,700
73 Lilian Bardet France 2 $1,700
74 Abhinandh Pradhivadhi India 3 $1,625
75 Cheng-Ting Liao Chinese Taipei 1 $1,600
76 Hugo Calderano Brazil 1 $1,600
77 Omar Assar Egypt 1 $1,600
78 Andre Bertelsmeier Germany 1 $1,600
79 Hina Hayata Japan 1 $1,600
80 Krittwika Roy India 1 $1,600
81 Man Ho Kwan Hong Kong 2 $1,550
82 Nicholas Lum Australia 2 $1,550
83 Finn Luu Australia 2 $1,550
84 Wim Verdonschot Germany 1 $1,500
85 Kazuhiro Yoshimura Japan 1 $1,500
86 Anna Hursey Wales 1 $1,500
87 Elizabeta Samara Romania 1 $1,500
88 Florian Bourrassaud France 2 $1,500
89 Carlo Rossi Italy 2 $1,500
90 Adina Diaconu Romania 2 $1,500
91 Kwan To Yiu Hong Kong 2 $1,500
92 Wing Lam Ng Hong Kong 2 $1,500
93 Barbora Balazova Slovakia 2 $1,500
94 Darius Movileanu Romania 2 $1,425
95 Akash Pal India 2 $1,425
96 Seongjin Kim South Korea 2 $1,425
97 Yashini Sivasankar India 2 $1,425
98 Mudit Dani India 3 $1,425
99 Sayali Wani India 3 $1,425
100 Avani Tripathi India 2 $1,425
101 Maharu Yoshimura Japan 1 $1,350
102 Yukiya Uda Japan 1 $1,350
103 Quadri Aruna Nigeria 1 $1,350
104 Yuta Tanaka Japan 1 $1,350
105 Alvaro Robles Spain 1 $1,350
106 Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei 1 $1,350
107 Jieni Shao Portugal 1 $1,350
108 Yi-Tian Yeh Chinese Taipei 1 $1,350
109 Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong 1 $1,350
110 Jian Zeng Singapore 1 $1,350
111 Manika Batra India 1 $1,350
112 Siu Hang Lam Hong Kong 2 $1,300
113 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium 2 $1,300
114 Taehyun Kim Malta 2 $1,300
115 Martin Allegro Belgium 2 $1,300
116 Priyanuj Bhattacharyya India 2 $1,225
117 Jash Modi India 2 $1,225
118 Anusha Kutumbale India 2 $1,225
119 Andrei Istrate Romania 1 $1,100
120 Joao Geraldo Portugal 1 $1,100
121 Daeseong Cho South Korea 1 $1,100
122 Luka Mladenovic Luxembourg 1 $1,100
123 Mizuki Oikawa Japan 1 $1,100
124 Bernadette Szocs Romania 1 $1,100
125 Kotomi Omoda Japan 1 $1,100
126 Franziska Schreiner Germany 1 $1,100
127 Preyesh Suresh India 2 $1,100
128 Gaon Kim South Korea 1 $1,100
129 Robert Gardos Austria 1 $1,100
130 Niagol Stoyanov Italy 1 $1,100
131 Gahyeon Park South Korea 1 $1,100
132 Giorgia Piccolin Italy 1 $1,100
133 Ananya Chande India 1 $1,100
134 Poymantee Baisya India 1 $1,100
135 Anjali Rohilla India 1 $1,100
136 Hoi Tung Wong Hong Kong 1 $1,100
137 Yerin Yoo South Korea 1 $1,100
138 Garima Goyal India 1 $1,100
139 Lakshita Narang India 1 $1,062
140 Hardee Patel India 1 $1,062
141 Dongsoo Kang South Korea 1 $900
142 Iulian Chirita Romania 1 $900
143 Iskender Kharki Kazakhstan 1 $900
144 Yashansh Malik India 1 $900
145 Punit Biswas India 1 $900
146 Sanil Shetty India 1 $900
147 Remi Betelu France 1 $900
148 Tanishka Kalbhairav India 1 $900
149 Ha Eun Yang South Korea 1 $900
150 Shruti Amrute India 1 $900
151 Sarvinoz Mirkadirova Kazakhstan 1 $900
152 Evana Thapa Nepal 1 $900
153 Neha Kumari India 1 $900
154 Amrutha Pushpak India 1 $900
155 Satya Aspathi United States 1 $900
156 Jennifer Varghese India 2 $800
157 Harkunwar Singh India 1 $325
158 Abhilash Raval India 1 $325
159 Sriram Sivam India 1 $325
160 Kushal Chopda India 1 $325
161 Arjav Gupta India 1 $325
162 Moumita Pal India 1 $325
163 Selena Selvakumar India 1 $325
164 Ananya Muralidharan India 1 $325
165 Sarth Mishra India 1 $200
166 Radhapriya Goel India 1 $200
167 Tsz Lam Kong Hong Kong 1 $200
168 Hoi Man Lee Hong Kong 1 $200

A doubles rung pays a pair and the two players share it here, so a doubles specialist's figure is half of what the ladder prices the round at. It is the only way a money list adds up to the same total the event paid out.

Who owns this week

The biggest career hauls at the WTT Star Contender Chennai

91 paid at more than one edition

Thibault Poret $20k Satsuki Odo $19k Lubomir Jancarik $17k Junsung Oh $14k Miwa Harimoto $12k Flavien Coton $11k Sakura Yokoi $9,350 Miu Hirano $9,025 Honoka Hashimoto $7,525 Nayeong Kim $7,483 Jonghoon Lim $7,133 Manav Thakkar $5,825 I-Ching Cheng $5,600 Ganghyeon Park $5,350 Yubin Shin $5,250

Every WTT Star Contender Chennai

Newest first, with what each week put up

2 editions

Year Edition Venue Draws Players paid Prize pot
2026 WTT Star Contender Chennai 2026 Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University 4 109 $300,000
2025 WTT Star Contender Chennai 2025 Presented by IndianOil Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium 4 107 $275,000

A pot is what the week puts up in total, shared down every draw it runs. It is not the champion's cheque, and on an event with five draws it is not far off five champions' cheques plus everything underneath them.

WTT Star Contender Chennai champions

Every draw of every edition, and what winning it paid

8 titles

Year Draw Champion Federation Prize
2026 Men's Singles Lubomir Jancarik Czechia $17,000
2026 Women's Singles Satsuki Odo Japan $17,000
2026 Men's Doubles Flavien Coton & Thibault Poret France $5,500
2026 Women's Doubles Sakura Yokoi & Sachi Aoki Japan $5,500
2025 Men's Singles Junsung Oh South Korea $10,000
2025 Women's Singles Miwa Harimoto Japan $10,000
2025 Men's Doubles Jonghoon Lim & Jaehyun An South Korea $3,500
2025 Women's Doubles Miwa Harimoto & Miyuu Kihara Japan $3,500

Where the WTT Star Contender Chennai money ends up

Every cheque the event has written, by federation

30 federations

India $102k Japan $90k South Korea $65k France $41k Chinese Taipei $20k Czechia $17k Hong Kong $16k Romania $12k Germany $10k Italy $9,350 Australia $7,700 Sweden $4,550 Luxembourg $3,263 Belgium $2,600 Denmark $2,500

Where the WTT Star Contender Chennai sits on the tour

Ranked 20 of 99 on prize money paid

# Event Tier Editions Span Paid out
10 WTT Champions Yokohama WTT Champions 2 2025 to 2026 $950,000
11 WTT Cup Finals Xinxiang WTT Cup Finals 1 2022 $927,500
12 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana WTT Star Contender 4 2023 to 2026 $885,585
13 WTT Champions Incheon WTT Champions 2 2024 to 2025 $775,000
14 WTT Finals Hong Kong WTT Finals 1 2025 $761,000
15 WTT Champions Xinxiang WTT Champions 1 2023 $760,000
16 WTT Finals Fukuoka WTT Finals 1 2024 $665,000
17 WTT Star Contender Doha WTT Star Contender 3 2024 to 2026 $622,134
18 WTT Champions Doha WTT Champions 1 2026 $475,000
19 WTT Champions European Summer Series WTT Champions 1 2022 $475,000
21 WTT Star Contender Bangkok WTT Star Contender 2 2023 to 2024 $419,900
22 WTT Star Contender Goa WTT Star Contender 2 2023 to 2024 $402,500
23 WTT Contender Almaty WTT Contender 5 2022 to 2026 $386,025
24 WTT Contender Tunis WTT Contender 5 2022 to 2026 $382,900
25 WTT Contender Muscat WTT Contender 5 2022 to 2026 $373,800
26 WTT Contender Lagos WTT Contender 4 2023 to 2026 $326,200
27 WTT Contender Zagreb WTT Contender 4 2023 to 2026 $326,075
28 WTT Finals Men Doha WTT Finals 1 2024 $323,000
29 WTT Finals Women Nagoya WTT Finals 1 2023 $323,000
30 WTT Contender Taiyuan WTT Contender 4 2023 to 2026 $303,550

Frequently asked questions

How much does the WTT Star Contender Chennai winner get?

$17,000 at the richest edition on this site, out of a $300,000 pot. WTT Star Contender: the tier where the world top ten start appearing in numbers, and where the doubles draws pay properly.

How many times has the WTT Star Contender Chennai been played?

2 editions on this site, 2025 to 2026, in Chennai.

Who has won the most money at the WTT Star Contender Chennai?

Thibault Poret of France, $19,700 across 4 editions and 1 title.

Do the same players keep coming back to the WTT Star Contender Chennai?

91 of the 168 players the event has paid have been paid at more than one edition of it.

Which country does the WTT Star Contender Chennai money go to?

India takes the most of it, $101,887 across 2 editions, out of 30 federations paid here.

What is the WTT Star Contender Chennai worth in total?

$575,000 across 2 editions that publish a pot.

Where to next

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