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WTT STAR CONTENDER · 2025

WTT Star Contender Muscat 2025 prize money

A $300,000 week in Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex, 2025-11-17 to 2025-11-22. The champion takes $17,000, 5.7% 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 $300k
TO THE CHAMPION $17k
DRAWS 4
PLAYERS PAID 110
FEDERATIONS 27

The 2025 WTT Star Contender Muscat at a glance

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

Tier
WTT Star Contender
Venue
Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex
Played
2025-11-17 to 2025-11-22
Prize pot
$300,000
Champion's cheque
$17,000
Editions of this event
1

The prize ladder

What each place is worth, as published

12 rungs

Place Draws it applies to Ranking points Prize
Champion the cheque every draw is played for Singles 600 $17,000
Finalist Singles 420 $9,025
Champion Doubles 600 $5,500
Semifinals Singles 210 $4,250
Finalist Doubles 420 $3,567
Quarterfinals Singles 105 $2,250
Semifinals Doubles 210 $2,125
Round of 16 Singles 55 $1,500
Quarterfinals Doubles 105 $1,200
Round of 32 Singles 25 $1,100
Round of 48 Singles 5 $900
Round of 16 Doubles 5 $650

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 26x the bottom

Champion $17k
Finalist $9,025
Champion $5,500
Semifinals $4,250
Finalist $3,567
Quarterfinals $2,250
Semifinals $2,125
Round of 16 $1,500
Quarterfinals $1,200
Round of 32 $1,100
Round of 48 $900
Round of 16 $650

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

7 rungs paid

Champion (4) $45k
Round of 32 (32) $35k
Round of 16 (28) $32k
Round of 64 (32) $29k
Quarterfinals (16) $28k
Semifinals (8) $25k
Finalist (4) $25k

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

4 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 Singles48 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Felix Lebrun France $17,000
Finalist Alexis Lebrun France $9,025
Semifinals Flavien Coton France $4,250
Semifinals Vladimir Sidorenko Neutral Athletes $4,250
Quarterfinals Eduard Ionescu Romania $2,250
Quarterfinals Junsung Oh South Korea $2,250
Quarterfinals Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei $2,250
Quarterfinals Darko Jorgic Slovenia $2,250
Round of 16 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany $1,500
Round of 16 Omar Assar Egypt $1,500
Round of 16 Woojin Jang South Korea $1,500
Round of 16 Yuta Tanaka Japan $1,500
Round of 16 Kristian Karlsson Sweden $1,500
Round of 16 Hiroto Shinozuka Japan $1,500
Round of 16 Minhyeok Kim South Korea $1,500
Round of 16 Ryoichi Yoshiyama Japan $1,500
Round of 32 Quadri Aruna Nigeria $1,100
Round of 32 Daeseong Cho South Korea $1,100
Round of 32 Ganghyeon Park South Korea $1,100
Round of 32 Gyuhyeon Park South Korea $1,100
Round of 32 Abdullah Yigenler Turkey $1,100
Round of 32 Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei $1,100
Round of 32 Manav Thakkar India $1,100
Round of 32 Joe Seyfried France $1,100
Round of 32 Kazuhiro Yoshimura Japan $1,100
Round of 32 Simon Gauzy France $1,100
Round of 32 Kazuki Hamada Japan $1,100
Round of 32 Manush Shah India $1,100
Round of 32 Vincent Picard France $1,100
Round of 32 Yukiya Uda Japan $1,100
Round of 32 Andre Bertelsmeier Germany $1,100
Round of 32 Milosz Redzimski Poland $1,100
Round of 64 Lilian Bardet France $900
Round of 64 Youssef Abdelaziz Egypt $900
Round of 64 Evgeny Tikhonov Neutral Athletes $900
Round of 64 Alvaro Robles Spain $900
Round of 64 Ahmed Al Riyami Oman $900
Round of 64 Cedric Meissner Germany $900
Round of 64 Amir Hossein Hodaei Iran $900
Round of 64 Lev Katsman Neutral Athletes $900
Round of 64 Izaac Quek Singapore $900
Round of 64 Luka Mladenovic Luxembourg $900
Round of 64 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium $900
Round of 64 Martin Allegro Belgium $900
Round of 64 Leo De Nodrest France $900
Round of 64 Darius Movileanu Romania $900
Round of 64 Navid Shams Iran $900
Round of 64 Jules Rolland France $900

Women's Singles48 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Miyuu Kihara Japan $17,000
Finalist Cheonhui Joo South Korea $9,025
Semifinals Satsuki Odo Japan $4,250
Semifinals Nayeong Kim South Korea $4,250
Quarterfinals Hitomi Sato Japan $2,250
Quarterfinals Sakura Yokoi Japan $2,250
Quarterfinals Eunhye Lee South Korea $2,250
Quarterfinals Jian Zeng Singapore $2,250
Round of 16 Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg $1,500
Round of 16 Anna Hursey Wales $1,500
Round of 16 Hina Hayata Japan $1,500
Round of 16 Miyu Nagasaki Japan $1,500
Round of 16 Jia Nan Yuan France $1,500
Round of 16 Miu Hirano Japan $1,500
Round of 16 Elizabet Abraamian Neutral Athletes $1,500
Round of 16 Gahyeon Park South Korea $1,500
Round of 32 Camille Lutz France $1,100
Round of 32 Ha Eun Yang South Korea $1,100
Round of 32 Lin Qian Ser Singapore $1,100
Round of 32 Vlada Voronina Neutral Athletes $1,100
Round of 32 Andreea Dragoman Romania $1,100
Round of 32 Elizabeta Samara Romania $1,100
Round of 32 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia $1,100
Round of 32 Bernadette Szocs Romania $1,100
Round of 32 Mariam Alhodaby Egypt $1,100
Round of 32 Christina Kallberg Sweden $1,100
Round of 32 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei $1,100
Round of 32 Sutirtha Mukherjee India $1,100
Round of 32 Natalia Bajor Poland $1,100
Round of 32 Yangzi Liu Australia $1,100
Round of 32 Elena Zaharia Romania $1,100
Round of 32 Jieni Shao Portugal $1,100
Round of 64 Filippa Bergand Sweden $900
Round of 64 Daeun Lee South Korea $900
Round of 64 Hana Arapovic Croatia $900
Round of 64 Giorgia Piccolin Italy $900
Round of 64 Rachel Moret Switzerland $900
Round of 64 Barbora Varady Slovakia $900
Round of 64 Swastika Ghosh India $900
Round of 64 Maria Xiao Spain $900
Round of 64 Fu Yu Portugal $900
Round of 64 Adina Diaconu Romania $900
Round of 64 Zion Lee South Korea $900
Round of 64 Diya Chitale India $900
Round of 64 Yi-Tian Yeh Chinese Taipei $900
Round of 64 Sofia-Xuan Zhang Spain $900
Round of 64 Gaia Monfardini Italy $900
Round of 64 Jiamuwa Wu Australia $900

Men's Doubles16 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Jonghoon Lim & Junsung Oh South Korea $5,500
Finalist Koen Pang & Izaac Quek Singapore $3,567
Semifinals Alexis Lebrun & Felix Lebrun France $2,125
Semifinals Manush Shah & Manav Thakkar India $2,125
Quarterfinals Payas Jain & Akash Pal India $1,200
Quarterfinals Kazuki Hamada & Yuhi Sakai Japan $1,200
Quarterfinals Woojin Jang & Gyuhyeon Park South Korea $1,200
Quarterfinals Leo De Nodrest & Jules Rolland France $1,200
Round of 16 Mateusz Zalewski & Hamid Shams Poland $650
Round of 16 Martin Allegro & Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium $650
Round of 16 Snehit Suravajjula & Arjav Gupta India $650
Round of 16 Satoshi Aida & Luka Mladenovic Japan $650
Round of 16 Mohamed Elbeiali & Youssef Abdelaziz Egypt $650
Round of 16 Daeseong Cho & Minhyeok Kim South Korea $650
Round of 16 Maciej Kubik & Milosz Redzimski Poland $650
Round of 16 Ahmed Al Riyami & Muhannad Al Balushi Oman $650

Women's Doubles12 paid places

Place Player Federation Prize
Champion Satsuki Odo & Sakura Yokoi Japan $5,500
Finalist Cheonhui Joo & Nayeong Kim South Korea $3,567
Semifinals Yangzi Liu & Jiamuwa Wu Australia $2,125
Semifinals Elizabet Abraamian & Vlada Voronina Neutral Athletes $2,125
Quarterfinals Sutirtha Mukherjee & Anusha Kutumbale India $1,200
Quarterfinals Bernadette Szocs & Elizabeta Samara Romania $1,200
Quarterfinals Adina Diaconu & Andreea Dragoman Romania $1,200
Quarterfinals Diya Chitale & Swastika Ghosh India $1,200
Round of 16 Fu Yu & Jieni Shao Portugal $650
Round of 16 Jian Zeng & Lin Qian Ser Singapore $650
Round of 16 Giorgia Piccolin & Gaia Monfardini Italy $650
Round of 16 Barbora Varady & Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia $650

The 2025 WTT Star Contender Muscat money list

Every player the week paid, richest first

110 players

# Player Federation How far they got Won here
01 Felix Lebrun France Men's Singles champion, Men's Doubles semifinals $18,063
02 Miyuu Kihara Japan Women's Singles champion $17,000
03 Cheonhui Joo South Korea Women's Singles finalist, Women's Doubles finalist $10,808
04 Alexis Lebrun France Men's Singles finalist, Men's Doubles semifinals $10,088
05 Satsuki Odo Japan Women's Doubles champion, Women's Singles semifinals $7,000
06 Nayeong Kim South Korea Women's Singles semifinals, Women's Doubles finalist $6,034
07 Junsung Oh South Korea Men's Doubles champion, Men's Singles quarterfinals $5,000
08 Sakura Yokoi Japan Women's Doubles champion, Women's Singles quarterfinals $5,000
09 Flavien Coton France Men's Singles semifinals $4,250
10 Vladimir Sidorenko Neutral Athletes Men's Singles semifinals $4,250
11 Jonghoon Lim South Korea Men's Doubles champion $2,750
12 Izaac Quek Singapore Men's Doubles finalist, Men's Singles round of 64 $2,684
13 Jian Zeng Singapore Women's Singles quarterfinals, Women's Doubles round of 16 $2,575
14 Elizabet Abraamian Neutral Athletes Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 16 $2,562
15 Eduard Ionescu Romania Men's Singles quarterfinals $2,250
16 Yun-Ju Lin Chinese Taipei Men's Singles quarterfinals $2,250
17 Darko Jorgic Slovenia Men's Singles quarterfinals $2,250
18 Hitomi Sato Japan Women's Singles quarterfinals $2,250
19 Eunhye Lee South Korea Women's Singles quarterfinals $2,250
20 Manush Shah India Men's Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 32 $2,163
21 Manav Thakkar India Men's Doubles semifinals, Men's Singles round of 32 $2,163
22 Yangzi Liu Australia Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $2,163
23 Vlada Voronina Neutral Athletes Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $2,163
24 Woojin Jang South Korea Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles quarterfinals $2,100
25 Jiamuwa Wu Australia Women's Doubles semifinals, Women's Singles round of 64 $1,962
26 Minhyeok Kim South Korea Men's Singles round of 16, Men's Doubles round of 16 $1,825
27 Koen Pang Singapore Men's Doubles finalist $1,784
28 Kazuki Hamada Japan Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Men's Singles round of 32 $1,700
29 Gyuhyeon Park South Korea Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Men's Singles round of 32 $1,700
30 Sutirtha Mukherjee India Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $1,700
31 Bernadette Szocs Romania Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $1,700
32 Elizabeta Samara Romania Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $1,700
33 Andreea Dragoman Romania Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Singles round of 32 $1,700
34 Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany Men's Singles round of 16 $1,500
35 Omar Assar Egypt Men's Singles round of 16 $1,500
36 Yuta Tanaka Japan Men's Singles round of 16 $1,500
37 Kristian Karlsson Sweden Men's Singles round of 16 $1,500
38 Hiroto Shinozuka Japan Men's Singles round of 16 $1,500
39 Ryoichi Yoshiyama Japan Men's Singles round of 16 $1,500
40 Sarah De Nutte Luxembourg Women's Singles round of 16 $1,500
41 Anna Hursey Wales Women's Singles round of 16 $1,500
42 Hina Hayata Japan Women's Singles round of 16 $1,500
43 Miyu Nagasaki Japan Women's Singles round of 16 $1,500
44 Jia Nan Yuan France Women's Singles round of 16 $1,500
45 Miu Hirano Japan Women's Singles round of 16 $1,500
46 Gahyeon Park South Korea Women's Singles round of 16 $1,500
47 Leo De Nodrest France Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Men's Singles round of 64 $1,500
48 Jules Rolland France Men's Doubles quarterfinals, Men's Singles round of 64 $1,500
49 Adina Diaconu Romania Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Singles round of 64 $1,500
50 Diya Chitale India Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Singles round of 64 $1,500
51 Swastika Ghosh India Women's Doubles quarterfinals, Women's Singles round of 64 $1,500
52 Daeseong Cho South Korea Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $1,425
53 Milosz Redzimski Poland Men's Singles round of 32, Men's Doubles round of 16 $1,425
54 Lin Qian Ser Singapore Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,425
55 Tatiana Kukulkova Slovakia Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,425
56 Jieni Shao Portugal Women's Singles round of 32, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,425
57 Youssef Abdelaziz Egypt Men's Singles round of 64, Men's Doubles round of 16 $1,225
58 Ahmed Al Riyami Oman Men's Singles round of 64, Men's Doubles round of 16 $1,225
59 Luka Mladenovic Luxembourg Men's Singles round of 64, Men's Doubles round of 16 $1,225
60 Adrien Rassenfosse Belgium Men's Singles round of 64, Men's Doubles round of 16 $1,225
61 Martin Allegro Belgium Men's Singles round of 64, Men's Doubles round of 16 $1,225
62 Giorgia Piccolin Italy Women's Singles round of 64, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,225
63 Barbora Varady Slovakia Women's Singles round of 64, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,225
64 Fu Yu Portugal Women's Singles round of 64, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,225
65 Gaia Monfardini Italy Women's Singles round of 64, Women's Doubles round of 16 $1,225
66 Quadri Aruna Nigeria Men's Singles round of 32 $1,100
67 Ganghyeon Park South Korea Men's Singles round of 32 $1,100
68 Abdullah Yigenler Turkey Men's Singles round of 32 $1,100
69 Yi-Hsin Feng Chinese Taipei Men's Singles round of 32 $1,100
70 Joe Seyfried France Men's Singles round of 32 $1,100
71 Kazuhiro Yoshimura Japan Men's Singles round of 32 $1,100
72 Simon Gauzy France Men's Singles round of 32 $1,100
73 Vincent Picard France Men's Singles round of 32 $1,100
74 Yukiya Uda Japan Men's Singles round of 32 $1,100
75 Andre Bertelsmeier Germany Men's Singles round of 32 $1,100
76 Camille Lutz France Women's Singles round of 32 $1,100
77 Ha Eun Yang South Korea Women's Singles round of 32 $1,100
78 Mariam Alhodaby Egypt Women's Singles round of 32 $1,100
79 Christina Kallberg Sweden Women's Singles round of 32 $1,100
80 I-Ching Cheng Chinese Taipei Women's Singles round of 32 $1,100
81 Natalia Bajor Poland Women's Singles round of 32 $1,100
82 Elena Zaharia Romania Women's Singles round of 32 $1,100
83 Lilian Bardet France Men's Singles round of 64 $900
84 Evgeny Tikhonov Neutral Athletes Men's Singles round of 64 $900
85 Alvaro Robles Spain Men's Singles round of 64 $900
86 Cedric Meissner Germany Men's Singles round of 64 $900
87 Amir Hossein Hodaei Iran Men's Singles round of 64 $900
88 Lev Katsman Neutral Athletes Men's Singles round of 64 $900
89 Darius Movileanu Romania Men's Singles round of 64 $900
90 Navid Shams Iran Men's Singles round of 64 $900
91 Filippa Bergand Sweden Women's Singles round of 64 $900
92 Daeun Lee South Korea Women's Singles round of 64 $900
93 Hana Arapovic Croatia Women's Singles round of 64 $900
94 Rachel Moret Switzerland Women's Singles round of 64 $900
95 Maria Xiao Spain Women's Singles round of 64 $900
96 Zion Lee South Korea Women's Singles round of 64 $900
97 Yi-Tian Yeh Chinese Taipei Women's Singles round of 64 $900
98 Sofia-Xuan Zhang Spain Women's Singles round of 64 $900
99 Payas Jain India Men's Doubles quarterfinals $600
100 Akash Pal India Men's Doubles quarterfinals $600
101 Yuhi Sakai Japan Men's Doubles quarterfinals $600
102 Anusha Kutumbale India Women's Doubles quarterfinals $600
103 Mateusz Zalewski Poland Men's Doubles round of 16 $325
104 Hamid Shams Iran Men's Doubles round of 16 $325
105 Snehit Suravajjula India Men's Doubles round of 16 $325
106 Arjav Gupta India Men's Doubles round of 16 $325
107 Satoshi Aida Japan Men's Doubles round of 16 $325
108 Mohamed Elbeiali Egypt Men's Doubles round of 16 $325
109 Maciej Kubik Poland Men's Doubles round of 16 $325
110 Muhannad Al Balushi Oman Men's Doubles round of 16 $325

Which federations took the money home

The week's cheques added up by the flag on the entry

27 federations paid

Japan $45k France $42k South Korea $39k India $11k Romania $11k Neutral Athletes $11k Singapore $8,467 Chinese Taipei $5,350 Egypt $4,150 Australia $4,125 Germany $3,500 Sweden $3,500 Poland $3,175 Luxembourg $2,725 Spain $2,700

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
2025 WTT Champions Macao WTT Champions 64 $800,000
2025 WTT Feeder Istanbul WTT Feeder 96 $30,000
2025 WTT Feeder Cappadocia II WTT Feeder 97 $30,000
2025 China Smash Grand Smash 161 $2,050,000$2.0m
2025 China Youth Smash Youth Smash 59 $20,000
2025 WTT Star Contender London WTT Star Contender 114 $300,000
2025 WTT Champions Montpellier WTT Champions 64 $500,000
2025 WTT Champions Frankfurt WTT Champions 64 $500,000
2025 WTT Feeder Vila Nova de Gaia WTT Feeder 98 $30,000
2025 WTT Feeder Gdansk WTT Feeder 89 $30,000
2025 WTT Finals Hong Kong WTT Finals 33 $1,300,000
2026 WTT Champions Doha WTT Champions 64 $500,000
2026 WTT Feeder Vadodara WTT Feeder 64 $30,000
2026 WTT Star Contender Doha WTT Star Contender 113 $300,000
2026 WTT Contender Muscat WTT Contender 97 $100,000
2026 WTT Feeder Doha WTT Feeder 64 $30,000
2026 WTT Feeder Lille WTT Feeder 64 $30,000
2026 WTT Feeder Cappadocia WTT Feeder 64 $30,000
2026 WTT Star Contender Chennai WTT Star Contender 109 $300,000
2026 Singapore Smash Grand Smash 182 $1,550,000$1.5m

Frequently asked questions

How much does the WTT Star Contender Muscat 2025 winner get?

$17,000, out of a $300,000 pot. That is 5.7% of the week's prize money on one cheque.

What is the total prize money at the WTT Star Contender Muscat 2025?

$300,000 across 4 draws, played in Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex between 2025-11-17 to 2025-11-22.

Who won the WTT Star Contender Muscat 2025?

Felix Lebrun took the men's singles and $17,000. Miyuu Kihara took the women's singles and $17,000. Jonghoon Lim and Junsung Oh took the men's doubles and $5,500. Satsuki Odo and Sakura Yokoi took the women's doubles and $5,500.

How far down the draw does the money go at the WTT Star Contender Muscat?

To round of 16, which pays $650. The ladder has 12 rungs on it, and $17,000 at the top is 26 times the bottom one.

How many players got paid at the WTT Star Contender Muscat 2025?

110, from 27 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 Star Contender Muscat?

WTT Star Contender. The tier where the world top ten start appearing in numbers, and where the doubles draws pay properly.

Where to next

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