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WTT STAR CONTENDER · DOHA

WTT Star Contender Doha prize money

3 editions between 2024 to 2026 , with $17,000 to the champion at the richest of them. 224 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 3
PLAYERS PAID 224
FIRST AND LAST 2024 to 2026

The WTT Star Contender Doha money list

Everyone the event has paid, across every edition

224 players

# Player Federation Editions Titles Won here
01 Yuling Zhu Macao 2 1 $18,600
02 Qihao Zhou China 2 1 $18,250
03 Tomokazu Harimoto Japan 5 1 $14,750
04 Man Kuai China 6 1 $14,413
05 Chuqin Wang China 2 1 $11,250
06 Ruibo Wen China 2 $10,808
07 Hitomi Sato Japan 2 $10,808
08 Satsuki Odo Japan 4 2 $10,100
09 Yingsha Sun China 1 1 $10,000
10 Shidong Lin China 4 $9,725
11 Miyuu Kihara Japan 3 $9,025
12 Tianyi Qian China 4 1 $9,000
13 Jonathan Groth Denmark 2 $8,425
14 Meng Chen China 2 $8,250
15 Yi Chen China 4 $7,513
16 Hiroto Shinozuka Japan 4 $7,500
17 Sakura Yokoi Japan 4 2 $7,350
18 Woojin Jang South Korea 4 1 $7,250
19 Daeseong Cho South Korea 5 1 $7,200
20 Jingkun Liang China 4 1 $7,175
21 Yubin Shin South Korea 5 $6,775
22 Hugo Calderano Brazil 2 $5,750
23 Sora Matsushima Japan 4 $5,650
24 Youzheng Huang China 3 $5,633
25 Miyu Nagasaki Japan 3 $5,450
26 Xunyao Shi China 4 $5,413
27 Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong 4 $5,250
28 Quadri Aruna Nigeria 2 $5,250
29 Maria Xiao Spain 5 $5,050
30 Dang Qiu Germany 2 $5,000
31 Peng Xiang China 3 1 $4,850
32 Nayeong Kim South Korea 5 $4,800
33 Manyu Wang China 2 $4,750
34 Zhuojia He China 3 $4,650
35 Prithika Pavade France 5 $4,625
36 Gaoyuan Lin China 2 $4,400
37 Geman Zong China 4 $4,300
38 Cheonhui Joo South Korea 4 $4,275
39 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany 1 $4,250
40 Adriana Diaz Puerto Rico 1 $4,250
41 Xingtong Chen China 2 1 $4,250
42 Tomislav Pucar Croatia 3 $4,100
43 Hina Hayata Japan 2 $4,100
44 Manika Batra India 4 $4,075
45 Saki Shibata Japan 2 $4,034
46 Adina Diaconu Romania 4 $4,000
47 Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong 5 $3,900
48 Sofia Polcanova Austria 4 $3,825
49 Dina Meshref Egypt 4 $3,825
50 Ganghyeon Park South Korea 3 $3,800
51 Alvaro Robles Spain 3 $3,750
52 Long Ma China 2 $3,750
53 Manav Thakkar India 5 $3,725
54 Mohammed Abdulwahhab Qatar 6 $3,625
55 Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei 2 $3,600
56 Bernadette Szocs Romania 3 $3,600
57 Junsung Oh South Korea 4 $3,525
58 Darko Jorgic Slovenia 3 $3,500
59 Miwa Harimoto Japan 4 $3,450
60 Jaehyun An South Korea 4 $3,425
61 Aia Mohamed Qatar 5 $3,425
62 Jonghoon Lim South Korea 4 $3,375
63 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei 3 $3,200
64 Thibault Poret France 3 $3,100
65 Orawan Paranang Thailand 3 $3,050
66 Shunsuke Togami Japan 3 $3,000
67 Rui Zhang China 2 $2,900
68 Simon Gauzy France 2 $2,850
69 Miu Hirano Japan 2 $2,850
70 Yukiya Uda Japan 2 $2,850
71 Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong 4 $2,850
72 Linda Bergstrom Sweden 3 $2,800
73 Anders Lind Denmark 2 $2,750
74 Elizabeta Samara Romania 3 $2,750
75 Jia Nan Yuan France 3 $2,725
76 Natalia Bajor Poland 5 $2,725
77 Kristian Karlsson Sweden 3 $2,650
78 Sharath Achanta India 3 $2,650
79 Guan-Hong Kuo Chinese Taipei 2 $2,600
80 Patrick Franziska Germany 2 $2,600
81 Yangzi Liu Australia 2 $2,600
82 Jieni Shao Portugal 2 $2,600
83 Maharu Yoshimura Japan 2 $2,500
84 Yi-Tian Yeh Chinese Taipei 2 $2,500
85 Zhendong Fan China 1 $2,500
86 Yidi Wang China 1 $2,500
87 Yuanyu Chen China 2 $2,450
88 Liam Pitchford England 3 $2,450
89 Manush Shah India 4 $2,375
90 Yingbin Xu China 2 1 $2,350
91 Benedikt Duda Germany 2 $2,350
92 Marcos Freitas Portugal 2 $2,350
93 Fei Xue China 1 $2,250
94 Bruna Takahashi Brazil 2 $2,250
95 Hyo Won Suh South Korea 2 $2,250
96 Eunhye Lee South Korea 2 $2,200
97 Jian Zeng Singapore 2 $2,200
98 Mattias Falck Sweden 3 $2,200
99 Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand 3 $2,200
100 Xiaona Shan Germany 3 $2,200
101 Lilian Bardet France 3 $2,163
102 Xiaotong Wang China 2 $2,163
103 Leo De Nodrest France 2 $2,100
104 Wing Lam Ng Hong Kong 4 $2,100
105 Hanna Ryu South Korea 3 $2,100
106 Omar Assar Egypt 2 $2,000
107 Joao Geraldo Portugal 2 $2,000
108 Flavien Coton France 2 $2,000
109 Anna Hursey Wales 2 $2,000
110 Ha Eun Yang South Korea 2 $2,000
111 Ovidiu Ionescu Romania 2 $2,000
112 Seungmin Cho South Korea 2 $2,000
113 Youssef Abdelaziz Egypt 2 $1,962
114 Sreeja Akula India 2 $1,800
115 Licen Yuan China 1 1 $1,750
116 Junsong Chen China 2 $1,700
117 Elizabet Abraamian Neutral Athletes 2 $1,700
118 Jihee Jeon South Korea 2 $1,700
119 Andreea Dragoman Romania 2 $1,650
120 Milosz Redzimski Poland 1 $1,600
121 Britt Eerland Netherlands 1 $1,600
122 Nina Mittelham Germany 2 $1,550
123 Baldwin Chan Hong Kong 2 $1,500
124 Yuxuan Qin China 2 $1,500
125 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia 3 $1,500
126 Truls Moregard Sweden 1 $1,500
127 Xia Lian Ni Luxembourg 1 $1,500
128 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco 1 $1,500
129 Zion Lee South Korea 2 $1,450
130 Christina Kallberg Sweden 2 $1,450
131 Gyuhyeon Park South Korea 2 $1,425
132 Sultan Al-Kuwari Qatar 3 $1,425
133 Ayhika Mukherjee India 3 $1,425
134 Jing-Kai Hung Chinese Taipei 2 $1,425
135 Diya Chitale India 2 $1,425
136 Yashaswini Ghorpade India 3 $1,425
137 Filippa Bergand Sweden 2 $1,425
138 Kay Stumper Germany 1 $1,350
139 Noshad Alamiyan Iran 1 $1,350
140 Hwan Bae Australia 1 $1,350
141 Yuta Tanaka Japan 1 $1,350
142 Tomas Polansky Czechia 1 $1,350
143 Finn Luu Australia 1 $1,350
144 Ricardo Walther Germany 1 $1,350
145 Barbora Balazova Slovakia 2 $1,300
146 Florian Bourrassaud France 2 $1,263
147 Cheng-Jui Kao Chinese Taipei 1 $1,250
148 Alexandre Cassin France 1 $1,250
149 Anton Kallberg Sweden 1 $1,250
150 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei 1 $1,250
151 Ying Han Germany 1 $1,250
152 Rokaia Elbaz Qatar 2 $1,225
153 Ryoichi Yoshiyama Japan 1 $1,100
154 Vladimir Sidorenko Neutral Athletes 1 $1,100
155 Ziyu Zhu China 1 $1,100
156 Seongjin Kim South Korea 1 $1,100
157 Yerin Yoo South Korea 1 $1,100
158 Annett Kaufmann Germany 1 $1,100
159 Yun-En Tsai Chinese Taipei 1 $1,100
160 Tsz Tung Su Hong Kong 2 $1,100
161 Yan-Cheng Huang Chinese Taipei 1 $1,100
162 Iulian Chirita Romania 1 $1,100
163 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan 1 $1,100
164 Andrej Gacina Croatia 1 $1,100
165 Fanbo Meng Germany 1 $1,100
166 Kanak Jha United States 1 $1,100
167 Eduard Ionescu Romania 1 $1,100
168 Minhyung Jee Australia 1 $1,100
169 Yi-Hua Huang Chinese Taipei 1 $1,100
170 Kwan Kit Ho Hong Kong 2 $1,100
171 Alexis Lebrun France 2 $1,100
172 Sang Su Lee South Korea 2 $1,100
173 Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei 2 $1,100
174 Mohamed Elbeiali Egypt 1 $1,062
175 Jules Rolland France 3 $1,000
176 Tiago Apolonia Portugal 1 $900
177 Kazuhiro Yoshimura Japan 1 $900
178 Rares Sipos Romania 1 $900
179 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India 1 $900
180 Swastika Ghosh India 1 $900
181 Taneesha Kotecha India 1 $900
182 Mariam Alhodaby Egypt 1 $900
183 Timo Boll Germany 1 $900
184 Jakub Dyjas Poland 1 $900
185 Harmeet Desai India 1 $900
186 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei 1 $900
187 Hsing-Yin Liu Chinese Taipei 1 $900
188 Sabine Winter Germany 1 $900
189 Yu-Chiao Huang Chinese Taipei 1 $900
190 Hyobin Yoon South Korea 1 $750
191 Seoyun Kim South Korea 1 $750
192 Abdullah Abdulwahhab Qatar 3 $725
193 Ahmed Korani Qatar 3 $725
194 Vlada Voronina Neutral Athletes 1 $600
195 Martin Allegro Belgium 2 $600
196 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium 2 $600
197 Deni Kozul Slovenia 1 $400
198 Snehit Suravajjula India 1 $400
199 Man Ho Kwan Hong Kong 1 $400
200 Siu Hang Lam Hong Kong 1 $400
201 Sarvinoz Mirkadirova Kazakhstan 1 $400
202 Andrea Todorovic Serbia 1 $400
203 Yew En Koen Pang Singapore 1 $400
204 Izaac Quek Singapore 1 $400
205 Hana Matelova Czechia 1 $400
206 Yu-An Chang Chinese Taipei 1 $325
207 Ankur Bhattacharjee India 1 $325
208 Payas Jain India 1 $325
209 Mariia Tailakova Neutral Athletes 1 $325
210 Arina Slautina Neutral Athletes 1 $325
211 John Oyebode Italy 1 $200
212 Carlo Rossi Italy 1 $200
213 Alexis Kouraichi France 1 $200
214 Seongil Jang South Korea 1 $200
215 Kwan To Yiu Hong Kong 1 $200
216 Lubomir Pistej Slovakia 1 $200
217 Taehyun Kim Malta 1 $200
218 Rawad Alnaser Qatar 1 $200
219 Maryam Ali Qatar 1 $200
220 Sutirtha Mukherjee India 1 $200
221 Vitor Ishiy Brazil 1 $200
222 Nandor Ecseki Hungary 1 $200
223 Paul Drinkhall England 1 $200
224 Camille Lutz France 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 Doha

138 paid at more than one edition

Yuling Zhu $19k Qihao Zhou $18k Tomokazu Harimoto $15k Man Kuai $14k Chuqin Wang $11k Ruibo Wen $11k Hitomi Sato $11k Satsuki Odo $10k Yingsha Sun $10k Shidong Lin $9,725 Miyuu Kihara $9,025 Tianyi Qian $9,000 Jonathan Groth $8,425 Meng Chen $8,250 Yi Chen $7,513

Every WTT Star Contender Doha

Newest first, with what each week put up

3 editions

Year Edition Venue Draws Players paid Prize pot
2026 WTT Star Contender Doha 2026 Lusail Sports Arena 4 113 $300,000
2025 WTT Star Contender Doha 2025 Lusail Sports Arena 4 129 $275,000
2024 WTT Star Contender Doha 2024 Lusail Sports Arena 4 118 $250,000

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 Doha champions

Every draw of every edition, and what winning it paid

12 titles

Year Draw Champion Federation Prize
2026 Men's Singles Qihao Zhou China $17,000
2026 Women's Singles Yuling Zhu Macao $17,000
2026 Men's Doubles Woojin Jang & Daeseong Cho South Korea $5,500
2026 Women's Doubles Sakura Yokoi & Satsuki Odo Japan $5,500
2025 Men's Singles Tomokazu Harimoto Japan $10,000
2025 Women's Singles Man Kuai China $10,000
2025 Men's Doubles Yingbin Xu & Peng Xiang China $3,500
2025 Women's Doubles Satsuki Odo & Sakura Yokoi Japan $3,500
2024 Men's Singles Chuqin Wang China $10,000
2024 Women's Singles Yingsha Sun China $10,000
2024 Men's Doubles Jingkun Liang & Licen Yuan China $3,500
2024 Women's Doubles Tianyi Qian & Xingtong Chen China $3,500

Where the WTT Star Contender Doha money ends up

Every cheque the event has written, by federation

42 federations

China $172k Japan $97k South Korea $65k Germany $26k France $25k India $24k Chinese Taipei $23k Hong Kong $19k Macao $19k Romania $17k Sweden $13k Qatar $12k Denmark $11k Egypt $9,750 Spain $8,800

Where the WTT Star Contender Doha sits on the tour

Ranked 17 of 99 on prize money paid

# Event Tier Editions Span Paid out
07 Saudi Smash Grand Smash 1 2024 $1,655,700$1.7m
08 WTT Champions Frankfurt WTT Champions 4 2023 to 2026 $1,425,000$1.4m
09 WTT Champions Montpellier WTT Champions 3 2024 to 2026 $950,000
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
18 WTT Champions Doha WTT Champions 1 2026 $475,000
19 WTT Champions European Summer Series WTT Champions 1 2022 $475,000
20 WTT Star Contender Chennai WTT Star Contender 2 2025 to 2026 $427,534
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

Frequently asked questions

How much does the WTT Star Contender Doha 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 Doha been played?

3 editions on this site, 2024 to 2026, in Doha.

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

Yuling Zhu of Macao, $18,600 across 2 editions and 1 title.

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

138 of the 224 players the event has paid have been paid at more than one edition of it.

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

China takes the most of it, $171,542 across 3 editions, out of 42 federations paid here.

What is the WTT Star Contender Doha worth in total?

$825,000 across 3 editions that publish a pot.

Where to next

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