World Table Tennis (WTT) revealed the main draws for the women’s singles and men’s singles tournaments, including qualifiers, for the WTT Europe Smash 2025 on Sunday.
These star-studded tournaments will pit some of the world’s best table tennis players against one another in Sweden until Aug. 24. Each of the world’s top ten singles players for both genders will participate in the competition, except Wang Chuqin (Men’s No. 2).
Among these stars are China’s Lin Shidong and Sun Yingsha, the world’s two No. 1-ranked singles players and the top seeds of their respective brackets. Lin will face Australian rising star Nicholas Lum (Men’s No. 45) in the Round of 64, and Sun will begin her tournament against Egypt’s Hana Goda (Women’s No. 24).
The Round of 64 is rife with star-studded matchups in both tournaments. China’s Chen Xingtong (Women’s No. 3), winner of the 2025 WTT Champions Yokohama women’s singles tournament, will face Hong Kong’s Doo Hoi Kem (Women’s No. 39). American star and Yokohama finalist Kanak Jha (Men’s No. 31) will first test his skills against Denmark’s Anders Lind (Men’s No. 17), the winner of WTT Contender Lagos 2025.
Eight additional players qualified for each tournament, such as Japan’s Yuta Tanaka (Men’s No. 34) and Portugal’s Fu Yu (Women’s No. 58). Each tournament will also have six wild cards in the first round, including hometown heroes Mattias Falck (Men’s No. 75), Christina Källberg (Women’s No. 92), Elias Ranefur (Men’s No. 119) and Alma Roose (Women’s No. 907).
Sweden, the host country of the event, will have 12 players participate in these tournaments, five women and seven men. That list includes superstar Truls Möregårdh (Men’s No. 7), the reigning men’s singles silver medalist at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
For Roose and Linda Bergström (Women’s No. 59), these hometown heroes will have to face each other before they can advance to the Round of 32. The matchups between India’s Sreeja Akula (Women’s No. 45) and Manika Batra (Women’s No. 52), Korea’s Joo Cheonhui (Women’s No. 29) and Choi Hyo-joo (Women’s No. 80) and Brazil’s Hugo Calderano (Men’s No. 3) and Vitor Ishiy (Men’s No. 53), will also have two players from the same country opposite each other at the table in the first round.
The WTT Europe Smash will begin on Aug. 17, and matches will take place at Malmö Arena in Malmö, Sweden. The prize money amounts to $1.55 million in United States dollars.
*All ITTF rankings are as of Week 33 - Aug. 12 2025
