WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos 2026 July 21-26

[pongfugrasshopper]

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Nine Japanese women but neither Kihara nor Hirano entered this tournament. Satsuki is doing triple duty being entered in singles, WD (with Miwa), and XD (with Togami).

 

[tzifos]

No Chinese men/women at all? Why is that? It gives a lot of points to the players

 

[scousebr]

I suppose it kinda clashes with their national championships, and they prefer to focus on that. It should be a good tournament anyway. I'm excited about it! It's not everyday you get to see stars playing in your own city, especially if it's not a major city in a table tennis country.

 

[Janard]

This will probably turn out to be All Japan TT Championships for WS by the QF round

Surprised Tomo-boy is not here to claim more points now that he has slipped to Japan #2 by WR.

 

[SilvestriDaVini]

Main draw bracket is out for anyone interested. Hugo will have a challenging first match, with Andre most likely facing him R32.

 

[kindof99]

I suppose it kinda clashes with their national championships, and they prefer to focus on that. It should be a good tournament anyway. I'm excited about it! It's not everyday you get to see stars playing in your own city, especially if it's not a major city in a table tennis country.

China super league at the same time

 

[NextLevel]

This will probably turn out to be All Japan TT Championships for WS by the QF round

Surprised Tomo-boy is not here to claim more points now that he has slipped to Japan #2 by WR.

Not surprised at all, bigger events are coming up and what you have described is a minor crisis. What will be interesting is whether he has any real solutions, the problem is incredibly difficult, Ma Long endorsing him is not going to solve it.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Miwa withdrew. She will be at the T-League Season opener to be held in Taiwan.

 

[linuques]

Miwa withdrew. She will be at the T-League Season opener to be held in Taiwan.

Disappointed not seeing Miwa considering she was announced and she's the "defending champion" (last year's Foz do Iguacu).
An interesting Japanese posse, though, we'll have Hayata instead of Miwa.

Odo seems to have dissolved her partnership with Alexis, both are playing XD but with different partners. I wonder if it's because of the incident last time they played together lol.

 

[scousebr]

I'm not sure you guys have been following the qualifiers, but the quality of some matches have really impressed me. Sure, it's just the qualifiers, but still some good matches on the evening sessions yesterday and today.
Sarmento, the local hero, made it to the main draw after fighting back from 2-0 down.

 

[SilvestriDaVini]

Adriana had to withdraw from the tournament. It seems she ran into a visa issue.

 

[SilvestriDaVini]

Disappointed not seeing Miwa considering she was announced and she's the "defending champion" (last year's Foz do Iguacu).
An interesting Japanese posse, though, we'll have Hayata instead of Miwa.

Odo seems to have dissolved her partnership with Alexis, both are playing XD but with different partners. I wonder if it's because of the incident last time they played together lol.

Odo and Alexis are signed up for Europe Smash. I would guess that the their federations made an agreement that they would only play in Smashes, due to harsher NER rules.

 

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WTT Star Contender Sao Jose dos Campos 2026 QLF WS R1​

I'm not sure you guys have been following the qualifiers, but the quality of some matches have really impressed me. Sure, it's just the qualifiers, but still some good matches on the evening sessions yesterday and today.
Sarmento, the local hero, made it to the main draw after fighting back from 2-0 down.

WTT Star Contender Sao Jose dos Campos 2026 QLF WS R1

WTT Star Contender Sao Jose dos Campos 2026 QLF MS R1

 

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WTT Star Contender Sao Jose dos Campos 2026 WS R64

WTT Star Contender Sao Jose dos Campos 2026 MS R64

 

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Scheduled Matches:

All times are local time.
Live streaming: https://www.youtube.com/wttglobal

Sat, 25th Jul 2026
11:00 T1 WS R16 Hina HAYATA(JPN) - Elizabet ABRAAMIAN(AIN)
11:00 T2 WS R16 HUANG Yu-Jie(TPE) - Satsuki ODO(JPN)
11:00 T3 MS R16 Darko JORGIC(SLO) - Tom JARVIS(GBR)
11:00 T4 WS R16 Kaho AKAE(JPN) - Saki SHIBATA(JPN)
11:35 T1 WS R16 Nina MITTELHAM(GER) - Bruna TAKAHASHI(BRA)
11:35 T2 MS R16 Patrick FRANZISKA(GER) - Thibault PORET(FRA)
11:35 T3 WS R16 Sakura YOKOI(JPN) - DOO Hoi Kem(HKG)
11:35 T4 MS R16 WONG Chun Ting(HKG) - Shunsuke TOGAMI(JPN)
12:10 T1 MS R16 Hugo CALDERANO(BRA) - Tomislav PUCAR(CRO)
12:10 T2 WS R16 Sreeja AKULA(IND) - Hitomi SATO(JPN)
12:10 T3 MS R16 Kanak JHA(USA) - AN Jaehyun(KOR)
12:10 T4 WS R16 Honoka HASHIMOTO(JPN) - Mo ZHANG(CAN)
12:45 T1 MS R16 FENG Yi-Hsin(TPE) - Alexis LEBRUN(FRA)
12:45 T2 MS R16 Yukiya UDA(JPN) - Hiroto SHINOZUKA(JPN)
12:45 T3 WS R16 Miyu NAGASAKI(JPN) - Lily ZHANG(USA)
12:45 T4 MS R16 OH Junsung(KOR) - Benedikt DUDA(GER)
13:20 T1 XD SF CALDERANO(BRA)/TAKAHASHI(BRA) - YIU(HKG)/NG(HKG)
13:20 T2 XD SF TOGAMI(JPN)/ODO(JPN) - WONG(HKG)/DOO(HKG)
19:20 T1 WD Final HAYATA(JPN)/AKAE(JPN) - DOO(HKG)/NG(HKG)
19:55 T1 MD Final WONG(HKG)/CHAN(HKG) - SEYFRIED(FRA)/PICARD(FRA)

 

[NextLevel]

So many landmines in Hugo's draw.

 

[Asgerje]

Finally they fixed the camera angle, hopefully its not only for QLF but also for main draw.

 

[andymagata]

Interesting to see how Mattias Karlsson plays with cybershape! Better forehand, worse backhand?

 

[GAOdp]

WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos-2026 is the tenth tournament of the WTT Contender Series in 2026 (and the fourth event at the WTT Star Contender level in 2026), taking place in São José dos Campos, Brazil. The WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos-2026 is organized by the Confederação Brasileira de Tênis de Mesa (Brazilian Table Tennis Confederation) under the auspices of World Table Tennis (WTT) from 21 to 26 July 2026. The tournament offers a total prize purse of US$300,000.

Qualification for the tournament

Restrictions on the participation of players of the world Top 20
Singles

• A maximum of six (8) players will be allowed to participate as long as the players are ranked in the top 20 ITTF TTWR players as of the entry deadline.

National Entry Restriction (NER)
Singles

• Each Member Association may be allowed a maximum of six (6) players per category, excluding the WTT category. The limit applies to both the main draw and the qualifying competition to ensure a maximum of six (6) players in any combination (i.e. 4 qualifiers / 2 main draws or 1 qualifier / 5 main draws).

Doubles

• Each Member Association may be permitted to participate in a maximum of eight (8) players per category, with a maximum of three (3) full pairs consisting of players from the same Member Association (i.e. for example 3 Czech/Czech, 1 Czech/Swedish, 1 Czech/German).

Mixed doubles

• Each Member Association shall be permitted a maximum of four (4) players per rank in any pairing combination.

The organizer is permitted to use their wildcards to enter additional players from any member association and/or pairs in any combination beyond the NER limit.

Wildcards

• The Promoter is entitled to the following Wildcards: four (4) players in the Singles Main Draw and two (2) Pairs in the Doubles and Mixed Doubles Main Draw.
• The Organizer is entitled to the following Wildcards: eight (8) players for the qualifying draw for singles and two (2) pairs for doubles.
• Any unused Wildcards/nominations will be returned to direct entries.

Useful Links

Tournament page on the WTT website: WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos-2026
Tournament Prospectus: WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos-2026 - Prospectus
Tournament playlist on the World Table Tennis YouTube channel: WTT Star Contender São José dos Campos-2026

 

[NextLevel]

I think Hugo has a tough draw but if he plays the way he did vs Andre, the tournament is already over.