Manush & Diya win mixed doubles title at WTT Contender Tunis 2025
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The Indian table tennis mixed pair of Manush Shah and Diya Chitale won the mixed doubles title of the WTT Contender Tunis 2025. They are the second Indian pair to win the mixed title at any WTT Contender event since 2021, following Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran's victory at the 2021 WTT Contender Budapest mixed title.
The USD 1 lakh prize money WTT Contender Tunis was held at Salle Omnisport de Rades, Tunis, Tunisia, from 22-27 April 2025.
The WTT Contender events are a ranking tournament where the players earn valuable points that help them to progress to higher-ranking WTT Series events.
Title win for Manush and Diya
In the final, Manush Shah and Diya Chitale faced the Japanese pair of Sora Matsushima and Miwa Harimoto. This was the second time that both pairs were facing each other in the finals.
They faced each other in the final of the 2025 WTT Star Contender Doha event, where the Japanese pair blanked the indian pair 3-0.
However, the Indian pair avenged their Doha defeat by beating the Japanese pair 3-2.
However, Miwa Harimoto later on went on to win the singles and women’s doubles titles at the Tunis event.
It was the third consecutive singles title for Harimoto, having won it in 2023 and 2024.
In the semi-finals, Manush and Diya defeated Tunisia’s Wassim Essid and Egypt’s Hana Goda pair 3-0.
Winners of the WTT Contender Tunis 2025
The following is the list of winners of WTT Contender Tunis 2025.
|
Serial Number |
Events |
Winner and their Nationality |
Runners Up and their Nationality |
|
1 |
Women's Singles |
Miwa Harimoto (Japan) |
Satsuki Ode (Japan) |
|
2 |
Men’s Singles |
Felix Leburn (France) |
Anders Lind (Denmark) |
|
3 |
Women Doubles |
Miwa Harimoto & Miyuu Kihara (Japan) |
Satsuki Odo & Sakura Yokoi (Japan) |
|
4 |
Men’s Doubles |
Benedikt Duda & Bendre Bertelsmeier (Germany) |
Li Hechen& Wu Yifei (China) |
World Table Tennis (WTT)
The Table Tennis sports governing body, the International Table Tennis Federation, created the World Table Tennis (WTT) in 2019 to popularise professional table tennis.
The World Table Tennis organises the WTT series, the WTT Feeder Series, and the WTT Youth Series.
The WTT series is the highest-ranked tournament, the WTT Feeder Series and the WTT Youth series.
Within the WTT series, the top-ranked events include Grand Slams, the WTT Finals, and the WTT Champions.
The WTT Contender is a second-tier event within the WTT series. The WTT has further divided the Contentender series into Star and Contender, with the WTT Star Contender being higher ranked than the WTT Contender.
