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WTT STAR CONTENDER · GOA

WTT Star Contender Goa prize money

2 editions between 2023 to 2024 , with $10,000 to the champion at the richest of them. 170 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 $250k
TO THE CHAMPION $10k
EDITIONS 2
PLAYERS PAID 170
FIRST AND LAST 2023 to 2024

The WTT Star Contender Goa money list

Everyone the event has paid, across every edition

170 players

# Player Federation Editions Titles Won here
01 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei 4 1 $19,500
02 Felix Lebrun France 2 1 $14,000
03 Jingkun Liang China 1 1 $10,000
04 Yidi Wang China 1 1 $10,000
05 Hugo Calderano Brazil 1 $7,500
06 Nina Mittelham Germany 1 $7,500
07 Shidong Lin China 1 $7,500
08 Jihee Jeon South Korea 5 2 $7,450
09 Yubin Shin South Korea 5 1 $7,400
10 Jaehyun An South Korea 4 2 $7,250
11 Miwa Harimoto Japan 3 1 $6,950
12 Patrick Franziska Germany 4 $6,700
13 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco 2 $6,500
14 Woojin Jang South Korea 4 1 $6,500
15 Dang Qiu Germany 3 $5,250
16 Hyojoo Choi South Korea 5 $5,150
17 Tomokazu Harimoto Japan 2 $4,750
18 Jonghoon Lim South Korea 4 1 $4,200
19 Cheonhui Joo South Korea 3 $4,150
20 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany 1 $4,000
21 Sreeja Akula India 4 $4,000
22 Miu Hirano Japan 1 $4,000
23 Seungmin Cho South Korea 3 1 $3,900
24 Sang Su Lee South Korea 5 $3,850
25 Truls Moregard Sweden 5 $3,800
26 Manika Batra India 4 $3,800
27 Fu Yu Portugal 2 $3,750
28 Daeseong Cho South Korea 5 $3,550
29 Shunsuke Togami Japan 3 $3,350
30 Nayeong Kim South Korea 4 $3,300
31 Jia Nan Yuan France 3 $3,250
32 Zion Lee South Korea 3 $3,250
33 Miyu Nagasaki Japan 3 1 $3,200
34 Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong 3 $3,150
35 Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong 4 $3,100
36 Kristian Karlsson Sweden 4 $3,000
37 Liam Pitchford England 3 $2,950
38 Dongsoo Kang South Korea 4 $2,950
39 Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand 3 $2,950
40 Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei 3 $2,900
41 Simon Gauzy France 3 $2,800
42 Darko Jorgic Slovenia 2 $2,750
43 Ha Eun Yang South Korea 2 $2,750
44 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei 2 $2,750
45 Yukiya Uda Japan 2 $2,750
46 Junsung Oh South Korea 2 $2,700
47 Orawan Paranang Thailand 3 $2,700
48 Christina Kallberg Sweden 4 $2,650
49 Yashaswini Ghorpade India 4 $2,550
50 Anton Kallberg Sweden 1 $2,500
51 Quadri Aruna Nigeria 1 $2,500
52 Andrej Gacina Croatia 2 $2,500
53 Hana Goda Egypt 2 $2,500
54 Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei 1 $2,500
55 Gaoyuan Lin China 1 $2,500
56 Tianyi Qian China 1 $2,500
57 Ying Han Germany 1 $2,500
58 Harmeet Desai India 4 $2,400
59 Suhana Saini India 5 $2,400
60 Adina Diaconu Romania 2 $2,250
61 Sibel Altinkaya Turkey 3 $2,200
62 Tomislav Pucar Croatia 2 $2,150
63 Hyo Won Suh South Korea 2 $2,150
64 Jieni Shao Portugal 2 $2,150
65 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan 2 $2,150
66 Joao Geraldo Portugal 2 $2,150
67 Archana Girish Kamath India 3 $2,100
68 Sutirtha Mukherjee India 3 $2,100
69 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India 4 $2,050
70 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei 2 $2,000
71 Cheng-Jui Kao Chinese Taipei 2 $2,000
72 Payas Jain India 3 $2,000
73 Natalia Bajor Poland 3 $2,000
74 Hina Hayata Japan 2 $2,000
75 Emmanuel Lebesson France 2 $2,000
76 Linda Bergstrom Sweden 2 $2,000
77 Alexis Lebrun France 2 $1,900
78 Prithika Pavade France 3 $1,900
79 Eunhye Lee South Korea 2 $1,900
80 Mizuki Oikawa Japan 3 $1,850
81 Ibrahima Diaw Senegal 2 $1,800
82 Jon Persson Sweden 2 $1,700
83 Maria Xiao Spain 2 $1,650
84 Snehit Suravajjula India 3 $1,650
85 Hayeong Kim South Korea 2 $1,650
86 Tiago Apolonia Portugal 1 $1,500
87 Marcos Freitas Portugal 1 $1,500
88 Jules Rolland France 3 $1,500
89 Manush Utpalbhai Shah India 3 $1,500
90 Bence Majoros Hungary 1 $1,500
91 Elizabeta Samara Romania 1 $1,500
92 Man Kuai China 1 $1,500
93 Weishan Liu China 1 $1,500
94 Izaac Quek Singapore 2 $1,450
95 Vincent Picard France 2 $1,450
96 Gyuhyeon Park South Korea 2 $1,450
97 Jingyi Zhou Singapore 2 $1,450
98 Hanna Ryu South Korea 2 $1,450
99 Ho Ching Lee Hong Kong 2 $1,450
100 Jeet Chandra India 3 $1,300
101 Camille Lutz France 3 $1,300
102 Anna Hursey Wales 2 $1,300
103 Hyobin Yoon South Korea 2 $1,300
104 Tin-Tin Ho England 2 $1,300
105 Sharath Kamal Achanta India 3 $1,300
106 Ruwen Filus Germany 1 $1,250
107 Alvaro Robles Spain 1 $1,250
108 Omar Assar Egypt 1 $1,250
109 Hsien-Tzu Cheng Chinese Taipei 1 $1,250
110 Dora Madarasz Hungary 1 $1,250
111 Jian Zeng Singapore 1 $1,250
112 Yanning Liang China 1 $1,250
113 Benedek Olah Finland 1 $1,250
114 Ricardo Walther Germany 1 $1,250
115 Zhendong Fan China 1 $1,250
116 Benedikt Duda Germany 1 $1,250
117 Adriana Diaz Puerto Rico 1 $1,250
118 Kasumi Ishikawa Japan 1 $1,250
119 Ganghyeon Park South Korea 3 $1,200
120 Barbora Balazova Slovakia 2 $1,100
121 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia 2 $1,100
122 Wesley Do Rosario India 2 $1,100
123 Mattias Falck Sweden 2 $1,100
124 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium 2 $1,100
125 Yangzi Liu Australia 2 $1,100
126 Minhyung Jee Australia 2 $1,100
127 Xiaona Shan Germany 2 $1,100
128 Yousra Helmy Egypt 2 $1,100
129 Manav Vikash Thakkar India 3 $1,000
130 Lubomir Pistej Slovakia 1 $900
131 Lilian Bardet France 1 $900
132 Kay Stumper Germany 1 $900
133 Yang Wang Slovakia 1 $900
134 Anirban Ghosh India 1 $900
135 Sofia-Xuan Zhang Spain 1 $900
136 Audrey Zarif France 1 $900
137 Daeun Lee South Korea 1 $900
138 Nithya Mani India 1 $900
139 Tung-Chuan Chien Chinese Taipei 1 $900
140 Anjali Rohilla India 1 $900
141 Qihao Zhou China 1 $900
142 Hiroto Shinozuka Japan 1 $900
143 Siu Hang Lam Hong Kong 1 $900
144 Yaroslav Zhmudenko Ukraine 1 $900
145 Yuta Tanaka Japan 1 $900
146 Lily Zhang United States 1 $900
147 Yee Lok Lam Hong Kong 1 $900
148 Bernadette Szocs Romania 1 $900
149 Hsing-Yin Liu Chinese Taipei 1 $900
150 Yuto Kizukuri Japan 1 $750
151 Diya Parag Chitale India 2 $600
152 Ayhika Mukherjee India 2 $600
153 Taneesha Kotecha India 1 $400
154 Sayali Wani India 1 $400
155 Andrea Todorovic Serbia 1 $400
156 Samuel Walker England 2 $400
157 Bastien Rembert France 1 $400
158 Kwan Kit Ho Hong Kong 2 $400
159 Zhe Yu Clarence Chew Singapore 1 $200
160 Josh Shao Han Chua Singapore 1 $200
161 Yew En Koen Pang Singapore 1 $200
162 Filippa Bergand Sweden 1 $200
163 Xin Ru Wong Singapore 1 $200
164 Cedric Nuytinck Belgium 1 $200
165 Tom Jarvis England 1 $200
166 Ronit Bhanja India 1 $200
167 Ching Wan Li Hong Kong 1 $200
168 Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong 1 $200
169 Poymantee Baisya India 1 $200
170 Anannya Basak India 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 Goa

101 paid at more than one edition

I-Ching Cheng $19k Felix Lebrun $14k Jingkun Liang $10k Yidi Wang $10k Hugo Calderano $7,500 Nina Mittelham $7,500 Shidong Lin $7,500 Jihee Jeon $7,450 Yubin Shin $7,400 Jaehyun An $7,250 Miwa Harimoto $6,950 Patrick Franziska $6,700 Xiaoxin Yang $6,500 Woojin Jang $6,500 Dang Qiu $5,250

Every WTT Star Contender Goa

Newest first, with what each week put up

2 editions

Year Edition Venue Draws Players paid Prize pot
2024 WTT Star Contender Goa 2024 Peddem Indoor Stadium 4 113 $250,000
2023 WTT Star Contender Goa 2023 Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium 5 124 $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 Goa champions

Every draw of every edition, and what winning it paid

9 titles

Year Draw Champion Federation Prize
2024 Men's Singles Felix Lebrun France $10,000
2024 Women's Singles I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei $10,000
2024 Men's Doubles Jaehyun An & Jonghoon Lim South Korea $3,500
2024 Women's Doubles Jihee Jeon & Yubin Shin South Korea $3,500
2023 Men's Singles Jingkun Liang China $10,000
2023 Women's Singles Yidi Wang China $10,000
2023 Men's Doubles Jaehyun An & Seungmin Cho South Korea $3,500
2023 Women's Doubles Miyu Nagasaki & Miwa Harimoto Japan $3,500
2023 Mixed Doubles Woojin Jang & Jihee Jeon South Korea $3,500

Where the WTT Star Contender Goa money ends up

Every cheque the event has written, by federation

35 federations

South Korea $80k China $39k India $37k Chinese Taipei $35k Japan $33k France $32k Germany $32k Sweden $17k Portugal $11k Hong Kong $10k Brazil $7,500
Monaco $6,500
Thailand $5,650 Singapore $4,950 England $4,850

Where the WTT Star Contender Goa sits on the tour

Ranked 22 of 99 on prize money paid

# Event Tier Editions Span Paid out
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
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
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
31 WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos WTT Star Contender 1 2026 $245,001
32 WTT Star Contender London WTT Star Contender 1 2025 $221,684

Frequently asked questions

How much does the WTT Star Contender Goa winner get?

$10,000 at the richest edition on this site, out of a $250,000 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 Goa been played?

2 editions on this site, 2023 to 2024, in Goa.

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

I-Ching Cheng of Chinese Taipei, $19,500 across 4 editions and 1 title.

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

101 of the 170 players the event has paid have been paid at more than one edition of it.

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

South Korea takes the most of it, $80,350 across 2 editions, out of 35 federations paid here.

What is the WTT Star Contender Goa worth in total?

$500,000 across 2 editions that publish a pot.

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