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WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2026

16 to 21 June 2026Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Champions

Women's singles champion

Hina Hayata

Beat Zhu Yuling 4-3 in the final8-11, 13-11, 9-11, 11-9, 12-10, 10-12, 11-9

Men's singles champion

Shunsuke Togami

Beat Hugo Calderano 4-3 in the final7-11, 12-10, 11-8, 4-11, 11-5, 7-11, 11-7

Women's doubles champions

Miwa Harimoto / Hina Hayata

Beat Satsuki Odo / Sakura Yokoi 3-0 in the final11-8, 11-5, 12-10

Men's doubles champions

Shunsuke Togami / Hiroto Shinozuka

Beat Wen Ruibo / Huang Youzheng 3-2 in the final11-4, 7-11, 11-3, 9-11, 11-5

Mixed doubles champions

Lim Jonghoon / Shin Yubin

Beat Dang Qiu / Sabine Winter 3-1 in the final11-3, 11-7, 6-11, 11-7

How it was won

Japan won four of the five titles in Ljubljana. Shunsuke Togami, unseeded, won the men's singles and doubles, and Hina Hayata won the women's singles and doubles.

The top two men's seeds went out early: Félix Lebrun lost to Hiroto Shinozuka in the last 16, and Lin Shidong to Yukiya Uda in the first round. Togami beat Germany's Dang Qiu 3-2 in the semi-finals and then Hugo Calderano 4-3 in the final, winning the seventh game 11-7.

Hayata, the eighth seed, beat her doubles partner and the top seed, Miwa Harimoto, 3-0 in the semi-finals. In the final she beat Macao's Zhu Yuling 4-3, 11-9 in the seventh game.

Togami and Shinozuka beat Wen Ruibo and Huang Youzheng 3-2 for the men's doubles, Harimoto and Hayata beat their teammates Satsuki Odo and Sakura Yokoi for the women's, and South Korea's Lim Jonghoon and Shin Yubin beat Germany's Dang Qiu and Sabine Winter in the mixed.

Matches

  1. Women's singles, semi-finalShin YubinZhu Yuling 038111012711
  2. Men's singles, semi-finalDang QiuShunsuke Togami 239118111151210911
  3. Women's singles, semi-finalMiwa HarimotoHina Hayata 039111315911
  4. Men's singles, semi-finalSimon GauzyHugo Calderano 237119111181171012
  5. Mixed doubles, finalLim Jonghoon / Shin YubinDang Qiu / Sabine Winter 31113117611117
  6. Women's singles, finalHina HayataZhu Yuling 43811131191111912101012119
  7. Men's singles, finalHugo CalderanoShunsuke Togami 341171012811114511117711

Times are UK time. Times are approximate: matches can start late or run over, so a match may not have started when its time passes. Tap a played match for point by point. Order of play and results from World Table Tennis.

The draw

Seeds shown in grey. Times are UK time. Times are approximate. Scroll sideways to follow each round.

Last 64

1Miwa HarimotoJPN
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Zeng JianSGP1
Dina MeshrefEGY3
Yashaswini GhorpadeIND2
Andreea DragomanROU3
ByeBYE
Bruna TakahashiBRA
Adriana DiazPUR
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Prithika PavadeFRA1
Xu YiCHN3
Miu HiranoJPN3
Lea RakovacCRO0
ByeBYE
5Sabine WinterGER
4Kuai ManCHN
ByeBYE
Yang YiyunCHN1
Manika BatraIND3
Kim NayeongKOR0
Fan ShuhanCHN3
ByeBYE
Hitomi SatoJPN
Joo CheonhuiKOR
ByeBYE
Kaho AkaeJPN3
Margaryta PesotskaUKR0
Sreeja AkulaIND3
Qin YuxuanCHN0
ByeBYE
8Hina HayataJPN
7Shin YubinKOR
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Yoo YerinKOR3
Jia Nan YuanFRA2
Mo ZhangCAN3
Sakura YokoiJPN0
ByeBYE
Miyu NagasakiJPN
Bernadette SzőcsROU
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Charlotte LutzFRA0
Sachi AokiJPN3
Miyuu KiharaJPN3
Natalia BajorPOL0
ByeBYE
3Chen YiCHN
6Satsuki OdoJPN
ByeBYE
He ZhuojiaCHN3
Lee EunhyeKOR0
Zhu SibingCHN3
Annett KaufmannGER1
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Shi XunyaoCHN
Cheng I-ChingTPE
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Elizabeta SamaraROU1
Sofia PolcanovaAUT3
Ana TofantSLO2
Xiaoxin YangMON3
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2Zhu YulingMAC

Last 32

1Miwa HarimotoJPN3
Dina MeshrefEGY0
Andreea DragomanROU0
Bruna TakahashiBRA3
Adriana DiazPUR3
Xu YiCHN0
Miu HiranoJPN1
5Sabine WinterGER3
4Kuai ManCHN3
Manika BatraIND1
Fan ShuhanCHN3
Hitomi SatoJPN1
Joo CheonhuiKOR3
Kaho AkaeJPN1
Sreeja AkulaIND0
8Hina HayataJPN3
7Shin YubinKOR3
Yoo YerinKOR0
Mo ZhangCAN1
Miyu NagasakiJPN3
Bernadette SzőcsROU2
Sachi AokiJPN3
Miyuu KiharaJPN3
3Chen YiCHN1
6Satsuki OdoJPN3
He ZhuojiaCHN2
Zhu SibingCHN0
Shi XunyaoCHN3
Cheng I-ChingTPE3
Sofia PolcanovaAUT1
Xiaoxin YangMON0
2Zhu YulingMAC3

Last 16

1Miwa HarimotoJPN3
Bruna TakahashiBRA1
Adriana DiazPUR3
5Sabine WinterGER0
4Kuai ManCHN1
Fan ShuhanCHN3
Joo CheonhuiKOR2
8Hina HayataJPN3
7Shin YubinKOR3
Miyu NagasakiJPN1
Sachi AokiJPN0
Miyuu KiharaJPN3
6Satsuki OdoJPN2
Shi XunyaoCHN3
Cheng I-ChingTPE2
2Zhu YulingMAC3

Quarter-finals

1Miwa HarimotoJPN3
Adriana DiazPUR0
Fan ShuhanCHN1
8Hina HayataJPN3
7Shin YubinKOR3
Miyuu KiharaJPN2
Shi XunyaoCHN0
2Zhu YulingMAC3

Semi-finals

1Miwa HarimotoJPN0
8Hina HayataJPN3
7Shin YubinKOR0
2Zhu YulingMAC3

Final

8Hina HayataJPN4
2Zhu YulingMAC3

Official draw from World Table Tennis, updated 6 November, 12:00.