A top player's income ?!

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What applies for ai ?? YOU didnt read my post ttt . I found this be cause of income word . Didnt wanted to open a new thread . AI is not my favorite ????!!!! So what ??? Is it a problem ?? I like ishikawa and japan's new generation . That's it . Nothing more

This thread is not called ZJK fan boy club
This thread is called top players
AI is/was a top player.

Ai makes over 1 million USD a year
of which, her commercial/adverts and ANA's sponsorship totals around 715k USD a year.
 
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The new T2 asia league might make some new millionaires :cool:

Its a pity there isn't too much proper high earner leagues.
playing club TT is slightly better (for most players) compared to world tours.
There is only a handful of table tennis players that can get ultra rich.
The rest can just get by "pretty well"

If we look at TT only income, there isn't much money tbh
Smaller sports like Cricket, Rugby provided higher income per tournament/season/league than the likes of TT.
Whereby TT is the biggest sport in the world, and the only sporting code to have membership in ALL countries on this planet
 
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The top 10 Wealth list of 2016 in China is translated as follow:
1. Sun Yang (Swimming) $69mm
2. Zhang Jike (Table Tennis) $60mm
3. Ning Zetao (Swimming) $35mm
4. Feng Shanshan (Golf) $33mm
5. Yi Jianlian (Basketball) $32mm
6. Zhu Ting (Volleyball) $30.3mm
7. Lin Dan (Batminton) $30mm
8. Zou Shiming (Boxing) $25mm
9. Li Haotong (Golf) $24mm
10. Ding Junhui (Snooker) $20mm

@laistrogian Lin Dan is not #1, he is #7
 
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This thread is not called ZJK fan boy club
This thread is called top players
AI is/was a top player.

Ai makes over 1 million USD a year
of which, her commercial/adverts and ANA's sponsorship totals around 715k USD a year.

I didnt say it's a zjk fan boy club ( I told I'm a girl , pay attention pls ) . And here is not fan boy club page for ai so dont tell me if i dont like ai why i post here . so easy . you made everything complicated for YOURSELF
 
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The top 10 Wealth list of 2016 in China is translated as follow:
1. Sun Yang (Swimming) $69mm
2. Zhang Jike (Table Tennis) $60mm
3. Ning Zetao (Swimming) $35mm
4. Feng Shanshan (Golf) $33mm
5. Yi Jianlian (Basketball) $32mm
6. Zhu Ting (Volleyball) $30.3mm
7. Lin Dan (Batminton) $30mm
8. Zou Shiming (Boxing) $25mm
9. Li Haotong (Golf) $24mm
10. Ding Junhui (Snooker) $20mm

@laistrogian Lin Dan is not #1, he is #7

ZJK made 60 million in 2016? Have I read that right?
 
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Of which maybe 80% is not from table tennis? lol

It is the same everywhere - endorsement/sponsorship earnings to money directly from sports ratio. In tennis (2016) ,
Federer pulled in $60 million from sponsors and endorsement fees by Forbes’ count, along with $7.8 million in prize money. You can do the math !!
 
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It is the same everywhere - endorsement/sponsorship earnings to prize money ratio. In tennis (2016) ,
Federer pulled in $60 million from sponsors and endorsement fees by Forbes’ count, along with $7.8 million in prize money. You can do the math !!

What math I see is:
Tennis player earns $7.8m from the sport
TT player earns $1.?m from the sport

So we talk TT
Could your national champion get lots of endorsement/sponsorship earnings? Because they can't really get a good salary from playing...

So lets look at country (audience) and brands that would support the "stars"
Asian: Your top Korean, top Japanese, Top Taiwanese, Top Singaporean
European: UK, Spain, France, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Denmark etc

Now tell me, which countries can really allow players to make money from sponsorships? and which can only rely on salary and tournament earnings....
 
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If it's not mistaken, the China wealth list is reported yearly and it's the only list to calculate the wealth for all the sportsman in China who earns for the year and they only show the top ten.
 
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If it's not mistaken, the China wealth list is reported yearly and it's the only list to calculate the wealth for all the sportsman in China who earns for the year and they only show the top ten.

The 2016 China wealth list is excluded football players...
 
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That article is about annual income of Chinese sportspeople in 2016, not assets. There are question marks about this article because most income is not itemized like Forbes lists do.

If interested, you can check the analyses in this article. Sun Yang earned 10 million CNY for incentives (from central, provincial and local governments) and 6 million CNY from sponsors (an auto brand, a sportswear brand and a mobile phone brand for only a short period of time). If the rest of 53 million CNY all come from the 9 variety show he attended, he earns much more and much easily than top Chinese movie stars who work in entertainment industry full-time.
http://sports.163.com/17/0523/11/CL492Q9L00058782.html

Jun Mizutani said after Rio Olympic Games that his annual income is close to 100 million JPY and he estimated top CNT player like Ma Long to earn 300-400 million JPY annually in a Japanese variety show early this month.

For conversion, 1 USD = 6.9 CNY = 112 JPY

Its says "personal wealth" on there.
not 2016 salary.
I see it as they total wealth

it won't surprise me that Wade got it wrong in his ITTF article
 
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