Sun Yingsha won three consecutive championships in the finals, why did her prize money shrink?

On the evening of December 17, the WTT Nagoya Annual Women's Finals came to an end, and Sun Yingsha and Xiao Sasha became the biggest winners, not only partnering Wang Manyu to win the women's doubles championship, but also defeating Wang Yidi 4-2 in the women's singles final to win the women's singles championship. Many fans may ask, how much prize money will Sun Yingsha get? This time, the national table tennis is still the biggest winner, not only winning the top four women's singles, but also winning the women's doubles championship. The national table tennis players shared more than half of the prize money in the finals. Among them, the double champion Sun Yingsha won a prize of 44,000 US dollars. Below is the list of bonuses for several national table tennis players.

1. Sun Yingsha 44,000 US dollars, including 40,000 US dollars for singles champion and 4,000 yuan for doubles champion.

2. Wang Yidi is $35,000, including $33,000 for the singles champion and $2,000 for the women's doubles semifinals.

3. Chen Meng is $27,000, including $25,000 in the women's singles semifinals and $2,000 in the women's doubles semifinals.

4, Chen Xingtong 25,000 US dollars, women's singles semifinals 25,000 US dollars.

5, Wang Manyu 21,500 US dollars, women's singles quarterfinals 17,500 US dollars, women's doubles champion 4,000 US dollars.

6. Zhang Rui is $17,500, and the women's singles quarterfinals are $17,500.

7, Qian Tianyi $12,000, top 16 women's singles prize 12,000 US dollars.

From the above, it is not difficult to see that the seven national table tennis players received a total of 182,000 US dollars, which is converted into 1295548 yuan, which seems to be a lot, but if it is compared with the prize money issued by the previous ITTF finals, it is still seriously reduced. Because before 2020, whether it was Chen Meng or Liu Shiwen, one of them was the ITTF women's singles champion for four consecutive years (Chen Meng 2017-2020), and the other was a three-time champion (Liu Shiwen 2011-2013), and the women's singles champion had a prize of $100,000 at that time. In 2012, Liu Shiwen won the championship and there were 104,000 US dollars, and Chen Meng's 2017 championship was 100,000 US dollars.

Xiaobian Xinxi thinks that this may be related to the International Table Tennis Federation's handing over the hosting rights of the competition to WTT. After all, in addition to the finals, the WTT World Table Tennis Federation also has Grand Slam events, World Table Tennis Championships, World Cup, Star Match, regular season, as well as regional events and youth events. WTT is an organization, and it also needs to ensure that its team operations cannot lose money. This is obviously more troublesome than the ITTF directly holding the event, so the prize money will also drop a lot!

In such a comparison, it turns out that our little cute Sun Yingsha invisibly took half of the generals, who were originally the winners of the three consecutive championships in the finals, Liu Shiwen received more than 300,000 US dollars, equivalent to more than 2 million yuan, and Sasha is only half of the others, not to mention much less than Chen Meng's four consecutive champions.

And this is also a comparison between the current prize money of table tennis and the previous bonus, if you take table tennis and tennis and other events than the prize money is even less pitiful. Let's not talk about comparing it with tennis, but with the badminton next door, the total prize money of the Hangzhou finals is 2.5 million US dollars, and the prize money of the table tennis competition is not as much as a fraction of others. So let's call for a proper increase in the prize money for table tennis players, at least not less?