Day 2 of the Men’s Singles Round of 64 at the WTT Europe Smash 2025 brought plenty of drama in Malmö, Sweden. Kanak Jha powered through against Anders Lind, Jang Woojin staged a comeback thriller vs Félix Lebrun, and Manav Thakkar stunned Japan’s Hiroto Shinozuka to advance.

Day 2 of the Women’s Singles Round of 64 at the WTT Europe Smash 2025 in Malmö, Sweden brought fireworks on court. Sreeja Akula defeated Manika Batra while top seeds including Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, and Mima Ito advanced smoothly. Europe’s hopes were kept alive by Bernadette Szőcs and Sofia Polcanova.

At the WTT Europe Smash 2025, French Paddler Simon Gauzy delivered a remarkable performance to defeat China’s Lin Gaoyuan in a thrilling Round of 64 clash. The match went the distance, with Gauzy prevailing 3–2 in games.

In Malmö, Luka Mladenovic put in one of his strongest performances of the season. The 20-year-old from Luxembourg showed composure under pressure, battling through intense qualifying matches against Top India players to secure a place in the WTT Grand Smash Sweden 2025 main draw.

The WTT Grand Smash made history in Malmö this August with its first European outing. Between August 14–24, WTT Europe Smash Sweden 2025 drew an elite field of global champions and marquee Swedish contenders, elevating the sport’s profile across the continent—while offering a grand total of USD 1.55 million in prize money. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

American table tennis star Kanak Jha made epic performance at the WTT Champions Yokohama 2025, advancing to the semifinals for the first time in a WTT Champions event. His journey has been hailed as a major milestone for U.S.A. table tennis.

Great news for Indian Table tennis fans as Achanta Sharath Kamal has been selected as wildcard for the WTT Star Contender, Doha 2024. Another interesting is Yashaswini Ghorpade, the 19 year old star has been making lot of news with her amazing performance in Youth WTT events where she won 2 of these events. Another table tennis legend who is selected is Timo Boll, who is also coming back to WTT Star Contender 2024 after a 12 months break.

In 2020, ITTF released information about a project called WTT which has now changed the outlook of table tennis. These days there are so many WTT events and sometimes it does cause confusion for table tennis enthusiasts about these events. Let’s clear the confusion of different types of WTT events such as Feeder/Contender/Champions/Cup Finals/Grand Smash/ etc.