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- International
WTT Champions Frankfurt day one preview: Wang Chuqin returns as Miwa Harimoto and Matsushima start
The world's top three men all play on Tuesday, and Miwa Harimoto, now the women's favourite, opens the tournament against Sofia Polcanova at 11am UK time.
- England
Sam Walker two points from WTT Feeder Chennai title before Manav Thakkar comes back to win
The Englishman arrived after a 30-hour journey without his luggage, then beat three Indian seeds and moved up 42 places in the world ranking.
- Equipment
World No 1 Wang Manyu signs advisory contract with Butterfly
The 2021 world champion, who plays with a Fan Zhendong ALC blade and Dignics 09C, joins the Japanese brand during a fortnight in which she lost early in Montpellier and withdrew from Frankfurt.
- Analysis
WTT's money, part two: where it comes from, and what the 2025 accounts show
WTT made its first profit in 2024, and the wider ITTF group recorded a $14.4m loss in 2025 as it took on more of the cost of running events. The published accounts show where income and costs have grown and how the revenue mix has changed.
- International
Sun Yingsha pulls out of WTT Champions Frankfurt a day after winning in Montpellier
Poland's Natalia Bajor replaces the world No 2, leaving Miwa Harimoto as the highest-ranked woman in the draw after Wang Manyu also withdrew.
- International
WTT Champions Frankfurt preview: Wang Chuqin returns as Wang Manyu and Lin Shidong pull out
Jang Woojin and Patrick Franziska, Sunday's finalists in Montpellier, are both in the draw, and 10 German players have a home crowd behind them from Tuesday.
- International
WTT Champions Montpellier finals: Sun Yingsha beats Kuai Man as Jang Woojin comes from 3-1 down
Sun dropped the opening game before winning the next four, while Franziska was one game from the title before Jang won the last three.
- Analysis
WTT's money, part one: China's money, and where it goes
China supplies the crowds, sponsors and television audiences that make the professional circuit a major sport. Tournament income there is shared between local organisers and WTT, and the published accounts do not break WTT's revenue down by country.
- International
WTT Champions Montpellier finals day preview: Sun Yingsha meets Wang Yidi, Moregard plays Franziska
China are certain of the women's title, and Moregard is the last of the top four men's seeds left, with both finals in the late afternoon.
- International
WTT Champions Montpellier day five review: Kuai Man ends Miwa Harimoto's run as Moregard survives
Four of the eight quarter-finals went the full seven games, and all four women's semi-finalists are Chinese.
- International
WTT Champions Montpellier day five preview: Miwa Harimoto faces Kuai Man as Moregard meets Lin Shidong
Five Chinese women are in the last eight, and Truls Moregard is the only one of the top four men's seeds still in the draw.
- International
WTT Champions Montpellier day four review: Chen Yi beats Wang Manyu as Zhou knocks out Félix Lebrun
Neither top seed is left after the last 16, and France have no one in the quarter-finals after Gauzy also lost from two games up.
- International
WTT Champions Montpellier day four preview: Wang Manyu meets Chen Yi as Félix Lebrun plays Zhou Qihao
Eleven last-16 matches decide the rest of the quarter-final line-up, with the top seed Wang Manyu facing the new Asian champion in the first match of the day.
- International
WTT Champions Montpellier day three review: Sidorenko knocks out Matsushima as Wang Yidi cruises
Jang Woojin won the longest match of the day 12-10 in the fifth game against Lin Yun-Ju, and Chen Xingtong ended Annett Kaufmann's run.
- England
Will Bayley and Bly Twomey lead 12-strong GB squad for World Para Championships in Thailand
Rob Davies, the Rio 2016 Paralympic champion, is chasing the one major title he has not won, and Britain travel a day early to cope with the time difference.
- Analysis
Japan's choppers keep an old art alive as defence disappears from the men's game
Honoka Hashimoto won both her matches against China in this month's Asian team final by chopping. The style once produced world champions, and it has all but gone from the men's ranking.
- International
WTT Champions Montpellier day three preview: Miwa Harimoto and Calderano start as the last 16 begins
The first round ends in the afternoon, and the evening brings Moregard, Matsushima, Chen Xingtong and the defending champion Wang Yidi into the last 16.
- International
WTT Champions Montpellier day two review: Gauzy knocks out Harimoto as Wang Manyu escapes
Alexis Lebrun and Flavien Coton both lost from two games up, and Kuai Man needed extra points in the decider to beat Wales's Anna Hursey.
- Analysis
Why the men's world top 10 has got four years younger while the women's has aged
Sora Matsushima became the youngest men's world No 1 this month, and the players around him are younger too. Among the women, the change has gone the other way.
- International
Benedikt Duda, Wim Verdonschot and Josi Neumann get wildcards for WTT Champions Frankfurt
The 16-year-old Josi Neumann makes her debut at this level on home soil, and Austria's two-time European champion Sofia Polcanova is also given a place.