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WTT STAR CONTENDER · LJUBLJANA

WTT Star Contender Ljubljana prize money

4 editions between 2023 to 2026 , with $17,000 to the champion at the richest of them. 267 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 4
PLAYERS PAID 267
FIRST AND LAST 2023 to 2026

The WTT Star Contender Ljubljana money list

Everyone the event has paid, across every edition

267 players

# Player Federation Editions Titles Won here
01 Hugo Calderano Brazil 5 2 $41,808
02 Hina Hayata Japan 6 4 $35,500
03 Shunsuke Togami Japan 7 2 $26,475
04 Felix Lebrun France 7 $23,384
05 Miyu Nagasaki Japan 5 1 $22,750
06 Miyuu Kihara Japan 6 $18,125
07 Yubin Shin South Korea 10 1 $18,108
08 Miwa Harimoto Japan 7 2 $18,100
09 Yuling Zhu Macao 2 $13,275
10 Alexis Lebrun France 9 $12,409
11 Yingsha Sun China 2 2 $11,750
12 Jonghoon Lim South Korea 8 2 $11,313
13 Prithika Pavade France 6 $11,100
14 Zhendong Fan China 1 1 $10,000
15 Darko Jorgic Slovenia 7 $9,900
16 Cheonhui Joo South Korea 9 $9,637
17 Tomokazu Harimoto Japan 7 1 $9,625
18 Simon Gauzy France 8 $9,525
19 Hiroto Shinozuka Japan 7 1 $9,325
20 Jaehyun An South Korea 7 1 $9,300
21 Chuqin Wang China 2 1 $9,250
22 Satsuki Odo Japan 4 1 $8,284
23 Peng Xiang China 6 1 $8,137
24 Meng Chen China 2 $7,900
25 Chun Ting Wong Hong Kong 10 $7,887
26 Adriana Diaz Puerto Rico 4 $7,500
27 Dang Qiu Germany 4 $7,450
28 Yi Chen China 5 $7,338
29 Man Kuai China 5 1 $7,212
30 Daeseong Cho South Korea 6 $6,962
31 Maria Xiao Spain 9 $6,350
32 Qihao Zhou China 2 $6,250
33 Bruna Takahashi Brazil 5 $6,233
34 Jonathan Groth Denmark 4 $6,150
35 Tomislav Pucar Croatia 5 $6,050
36 Bernadette Szocs Romania 5 $6,025
37 Xunyao Shi China 4 $5,887
38 Zhuojia He China 5 $5,575
39 Jihee Jeon South Korea 5 $5,500
40 Mima Ito Japan 2 $5,500
41 Junsung Oh South Korea 6 $5,462
42 Ana Tofant Slovenia 10 $5,375
43 Sora Matsushima Japan 4 $5,275
44 Deni Kozul Slovenia 8 $5,250
45 Kristian Karlsson Sweden 5 1 $5,150
46 Jia Nan Yuan France 6 $5,025
47 Andrej Gacina Croatia 4 $4,800
48 Alvaro Robles Spain 6 $4,800
49 Elizabeta Samara Romania 7 $4,775
50 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany 2 $4,750
51 Sakura Yokoi Japan 4 $4,646
52 Sabine Winter Germany 4 $4,562
53 Quadri Aruna Nigeria 3 $4,500
54 Manyu Wang China 2 $4,400
55 Hoi Kem Doo Hong Kong 6 $4,325
56 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei 3 $4,250
57 Licen Yuan China 5 $4,250
58 Manika Batra India 5 $4,225
59 Sara Tokic Slovenia 8 $4,150
60 Tianyi Qian China 4 $4,088
61 Anders Lind Denmark 3 $4,000
62 Nayeong Kim South Korea 5 $3,975
63 Peter Hribar Slovenia 8 $3,950
64 Truls Moregard Sweden 3 $3,950
65 Anton Kallberg Sweden 3 1 $3,900
66 Hitomi Sato Japan 4 $3,863
67 Omar Assar Egypt 3 $3,850
68 Christina Kallberg Sweden 6 $3,750
69 Suthasini Sawettabut Thailand 4 $3,700
70 Adina Diaconu Romania 6 $3,675
71 Gyuhyeon Park South Korea 3 $3,663
72 Miu Hirano Japan 2 $3,600
73 Shidong Lin China 4 1 $3,575
74 Jian Zeng Singapore 5 $3,575
75 Barbora Balazova Slovakia 5 $3,500
76 Xia Lian Ni Luxembourg 3 $3,400
77 Eunhye Lee South Korea 4 $3,375
78 Shuhan Fan China 2 $3,350
79 Youzheng Huang China 4 $3,333
80 Ruibo Wen China 2 $3,284
81 Chengzhu Zhu Hong Kong 4 $3,225
82 Ganghyeon Park South Korea 4 $3,200
83 Thibault Poret France 4 $3,125
84 Natalia Bajor Poland 4 $3,100
85 Sang Su Lee South Korea 4 $3,100
86 Hyojoo Choi South Korea 2 $3,034
87 Patrick Franziska Germany 2 $3,000
88 Baldwin Chan Hong Kong 4 $2,962
89 Yuanyu Chen China 3 $2,925
90 Annett Kaufmann Germany 3 $2,863
91 Jules Rolland France 3 $2,825
92 Cheng-Jui Kao Chinese Taipei 3 $2,800
93 Kirill Gerassimenko Kazakhstan 2 $2,750
94 Lily Zhang United States 2 $2,750
95 Long Ma China 2 $2,750
96 Manav Thakkar India 4 $2,725
97 Samuel Kulczycki Poland 5 $2,725
98 Wing Lam Ng Hong Kong 5 $2,688
99 Benedikt Duda Germany 3 $2,600
100 Xiaoxin Yang Monaco 2 $2,600
101 Jinbao Ma United States 2 $2,600
102 Xiaona Shan Germany 3 $2,550
103 Andreea Dragoman Romania 4 $2,525
104 Mattias Falck Sweden 1 $2,500
105 Hyo Won Suh South Korea 2 $2,500
106 Yidi Wang China 2 1 $2,500
107 Manush Shah India 3 $2,425
108 Feier Han China 3 $2,425
109 Guan-Hong Kuo Chinese Taipei 1 $2,250
110 Tom Jarvis England 3 $2,200
111 Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei 2 $2,200
112 Yerin Yoo South Korea 2 $2,200
113 Orawan Paranang Thailand 3 $2,200
114 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia 3 $2,200
115 Fei Xue China 3 $2,150
116 Seungmin Cho South Korea 2 $2,150
117 Joao Geraldo Portugal 2 $2,150
118 Lubomir Jancarik Czechia 2 $2,000
119 Yiyun Yang China 2 $2,000
120 Yuta Tanaka Japan 2 $2,000
121 Hana Goda Egypt 2 $2,000
122 Liam Pitchford England 3 $2,000
123 Yuan Wan Germany 3 $2,000
124 Junsong Chen China 2 $1,962
125 Charlotte Lutz France 4 $1,950
126 Linda Bergstrom Sweden 2 $1,900
127 Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei 2 $1,900
128 Izaac Quek Singapore 5 $1,825
129 Yingbin Xu China 2 $1,825
130 Lilian Bardet France 2 $1,800
131 Margaryta Pesotska Ukraine 2 $1,800
132 Lara Opeka Slovenia 2 $1,800
133 Kwan To Yiu Hong Kong 4 $1,787
134 Chih-Yuan Chuang Chinese Taipei 2 $1,650
135 Woojin Jang South Korea 2 $1,650
136 Hana Matelova Czechia 2 $1,650
137 Cheng-Ting Liao Chinese Taipei 2 $1,650
138 Weishan Liu China 3 $1,625
139 Jingkun Liang China 2 $1,600
140 Yukiya Uda Japan 1 $1,500
141 Sachi Aoki Japan 1 $1,500
142 Ryoichi Yoshiyama Japan 2 $1,500
143 Yuxuan Qin China 2 $1,500
144 Timo Boll Germany 1 $1,500
145 Sakura Mori Japan 1 $1,500
146 Szu-Yu Chen Chinese Taipei 3 $1,500
147 Sibel Altinkaya Turkey 2 $1,450
148 Yee Lok Lam Hong Kong 2 $1,450
149 Nina Mittelham Germany 2 $1,450
150 Sofia Polcanova Austria 2 $1,425
151 Flavien Coton France 2 $1,425
152 Lea Paulin Slovenia 3 $1,425
153 Audrey Zarif France 3 $1,425
154 Sreeja Akula India 2 $1,300
155 Eduard Ionescu Romania 2 $1,300
156 Yan-Cheng Huang Chinese Taipei 2 $1,300
157 Maciej Kubik Poland 2 $1,300
158 Noshad Alamiyan Iran 2 $1,300
159 Cedric Nuytinck Belgium 1 $1,250
160 Joao Monteiro Portugal 1 $1,250
161 Hsien-Tzu Cheng Chinese Taipei 1 $1,250
162 Yu-Jhun Li Chinese Taipei 1 $1,250
163 Georgina Pota Hungary 1 $1,250
164 Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg 1 $1,250
165 Ruwen Filus Germany 1 $1,250
166 Yanning Liang China 1 $1,250
167 Yang Wang Slovakia 1 $1,250
168 Haruna Ojio Japan 1 $1,250
169 Ha Eun Yang South Korea 1 $1,250
170 Zion Lee South Korea 1 $1,250
171 Hsing-Yin Liu Chinese Taipei 1 $1,250
172 Leo De Nodrest France 2 $1,225
173 Yashaswini Ghorpade India 2 $1,225
174 Lea Rakovac Croatia 2 $1,225
175 Bojan Tokic Slovenia 2 $1,225
176 Gaoyuan Lin China 2 $1,150
177 Jing-Kai Hung Chinese Taipei 1 $1,100
178 Joe Seyfried France 1 $1,100
179 Vladimir Sidorenko Neutral Athletes 1 $1,100
180 Kanak Jha United States 1 $1,100
181 Mizuki Oikawa Japan 1 $1,100
182 Mo Zhang Canada 1 $1,100
183 Dina Meshref Egypt 1 $1,100
184 Sibing Zhu China 1 $1,100
185 Yi Xu China 1 $1,100
186 Kaho Akae Japan 1 $1,100
187 Xiangyu Zhang China 1 $1,100
188 Yangzi Liu Australia 1 $1,100
189 Anna Hursey Wales 1 $1,100
190 Xiaotong Wang China 1 $1,100
191 Seongjin Kim South Korea 1 $1,100
192 Daniel Habesohn Austria 2 $1,100
193 Hana Arapovic Croatia 2 $1,100
194 Robert Gardos Austria 2 $1,100
195 Yi-Hua Huang Chinese Taipei 2 $1,100
196 Hyeonggyu Woo South Korea 1 $1,062
197 Kwan Kit Ho Hong Kong 3 $925
198 Satoshi Aida Japan 1 $900
199 Andreas Levenko Austria 1 $900
200 Kay Stumper Germany 1 $900
201 Ricardo Walther Germany 1 $900
202 Haidong Xu China 1 $900
203 Leonardo Iizuka Brazil 1 $900
204 Seoyun Kim South Korea 1 $900
205 Ying Han Germany 1 $900
206 Jieni Shao Portugal 1 $900
207 Minhyung Jee Australia 1 $900
208 Fu Yu Portugal 1 $900
209 Ziyu Zhu China 1 $900
210 Tiago Apolonia Portugal 1 $900
211 Benedek Olah Finland 1 $900
212 Frane Kojic Croatia 1 $900
213 Ovidiu Ionescu Romania 1 $900
214 Ioana Singeorzan Romania 1 $900
215 Takuya Jin Japan 1 $900
216 Mehdi Bouloussa Algeria 1 $900
217 Yaroslav Zhmudenko Ukraine 1 $900
218 Asuka Sasao Japan 1 $900
219 Katarina Strazar Slovenia 3 $850
220 Sabina Surjan Serbia 2 $800
221 Izabela Lupulesku Serbia 2 $800
222 Lubomir Pistej Slovakia 3 $800
223 Koen Pang Singapore 3 $725
224 Hiromu Kobayashi Japan 1 $600
225 Geman Zong China 1 $600
226 Saki Shibata Japan 1 $600
227 Minhyeok Kim South Korea 1 $600
228 Martin Allegro Belgium 1 $600
229 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium 1 $600
230 Wim Verdonschot Germany 1 $600
231 Franziska Schreiner Germany 1 $600
232 Hanna Ryu South Korea 1 $600
233 Siu Hang Lam Hong Kong 2 $600
234 Camille Lutz France 2 $600
235 Miha Podobnik Slovenia 2 $525
236 Josh Chua Singapore 2 $525
237 Diya Chitale India 2 $525
238 Mateja Jeger Croatia 2 $525
239 Ho Ching Lee Hong Kong 1 $400
240 Zhe Yu Clarence Chew Singapore 2 $400
241 Nandor Ecseki Hungary 2 $400
242 Ivana Malobabic Croatia 2 $400
243 Nima Alamian Iran 1 $400
244 Jingyi Zhou Singapore 2 $400
245 Man Ho Kwan Hong Kong 1 $325
246 Lin Qian Ser Singapore 1 $325
247 Zuzanna Wielgos Poland 1 $325
248 Payas Jain India 1 $325
249 Hoi Man Lee Hong Kong 1 $325
250 Tsz Lam Kong Hong Kong 1 $325
251 Daniel Gonzalez Puerto Rico 1 $200
252 Angel Naranjo Puerto Rico 1 $200
253 Jakub Dyjas Poland 1 $200
254 Vitor Ishiy Brazil 1 $200
255 Dora Madarasz Hungary 1 $200
256 Sid Naresh United States 1 $200
257 Tiffany Ke United States 1 $200
258 Aljaz Godec Slovenia 1 $200
259 Wanwisa Aueawiriyayothin Thailand 1 $200
260 Jinnipa Sawettabut Thailand 1 $200
261 Andrea Todorovic Serbia 1 $200
262 Bence Majoros Hungary 1 $200
263 Brin Vovk Petrovski Slovenia 1 $200
264 Cedric Meissner Germany 1 $200
265 Emmanuel Lebesson France 1 $200
266 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran India 1 $200
267 Xin Ru Wong Singapore 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 Ljubljana

176 paid at more than one edition

Hugo Calderano $42k Hina Hayata $36k Shunsuke Togami $26k Felix Lebrun $23k Miyu Nagasaki $23k Miyuu Kihara $18k Yubin Shin $18k Miwa Harimoto $18k Yuling Zhu $13k Alexis Lebrun $12k Yingsha Sun $12k Jonghoon Lim $11k Prithika Pavade $11k Zhendong Fan $10k Darko Jorgic $9,900

Every WTT Star Contender Ljubljana

Newest first, with what each week put up

4 editions

Year Edition Venue Draws Players paid Prize pot
2026 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2026 Presented by I Feel Slovenia Hala Tivoli 4 115 $300,000
2025 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2025 Presented by I Feel Slovenia Hala Tivoli 5 126 $300,000
2024 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2024 Presented by I Feel Slovenia Hala Tivoli 4 126 $250,000
2023 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2023 Presented by I Feel Slovenia Hala Tivoli 5 133 $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 Ljubljana champions

Every draw of every edition, and what winning it paid

18 titles

Year Draw Champion Federation Prize
2026 Men's Singles Shunsuke Togami Japan $17,000
2026 Women's Singles Hina Hayata Japan $17,000
2026 Men's Doubles Shunsuke Togami & Hiroto Shinozuka Japan $5,500
2026 Women's Doubles Miwa Harimoto & Hina Hayata Japan $5,500
2025 Men's Singles Hugo Calderano Brazil $17,000
2025 Women's Singles Miyu Nagasaki Japan $17,000
2025 Men's Doubles Jaehyun An & Jonghoon Lim South Korea $5,500
2025 Women's Doubles Miwa Harimoto & Satsuki Odo Japan $5,500
2025 Mixed Doubles Jonghoon Lim & Yubin Shin South Korea $5,500
2024 Men's Singles Hugo Calderano Brazil $10,000
2024 Women's Singles Hina Hayata Japan $10,000
2024 Men's Doubles Anton Kallberg & Kristian Karlsson Sweden $3,500
2024 Mixed Doubles Tomokazu Harimoto & Hina Hayata Japan $3,500
2023 Men's Singles Zhendong Fan China $10,000
2023 Women's Singles Yingsha Sun China $10,000
2023 Men's Doubles Shidong Lin & Peng Xiang China $3,500
2023 Women's Doubles Yidi Wang & Man Kuai China $3,500
2023 Mixed Doubles Chuqin Wang & Yingsha Sun China $3,500

Where the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana money ends up

Every cheque the event has written, by federation

43 federations

Japan $186k China $138k South Korea $102k France $77k Brazil $49k Germany $38k Slovenia $35k Hong Kong $27k Chinese Taipei $25k Sweden $21k Romania $20k Croatia $15k Macao $13k India $13k Spain $11k

Where the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana sits on the tour

Ranked 12 of 99 on prize money paid

# Event Tier Editions Span Paid out
02 WTT Champions Macao WTT Champions 5 2022 to 2026 $3,800,000$3.8m
03 China Smash Grand Smash 3 2024 to 2026 $3,344,266$3.3m
04 United States Smash Grand Smash 2 2025 to 2026 $2,953,225$3.0m
05 Europe Smash - Sweden Grand Smash 2 2025 to 2026 $2,578,215$2.6m
06 WTT Champions Chongqing WTT Champions 3 2024 to 2026 $2,271,500$2.3m
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
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
22 WTT Star Contender Goa WTT Star Contender 2 2023 to 2024 $402,500

Frequently asked questions

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

4 editions on this site, 2023 to 2026, in Ljubljana.

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

Hugo Calderano of Brazil, $41,808 across 5 editions and 2 titles.

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

176 of the 267 players the event has paid have been paid at more than one edition of it.

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

Japan takes the most of it, $186,417 across 4 editions, out of 43 federations paid here.

What is the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana worth in total?

$1,100,000 across 4 editions that publish a pot.

Where to next

The editions, the players and the events around this one

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