WTT Champions Yokohama 2026 opens general ticket sales, field set

World Table Tennis has opened general ticket sales for WTT Champions Yokohama 2026 and says the final names in the player list are confirmed. The event will run Aug. 4-9 at Yokohama BUNTAI in Yokohama, Japan, and it arrives as the third WTT Champions stop of the year.

That timing matters in a Champions bracket, where every singles draw carries ranking points, title pressure and seeding consequences. By placing Yokohama in the middle of the season, WTT gives the event added weight as the field separates into contenders and chasers. A locked list means the competitive picture is no longer speculative, and buyers now know they are booking into a completed top-tier lineup rather than a moving target.

Yokohama also has a recent benchmark that explains why this stop draws attention. The 2025 edition was held at the same venue and listed prize money at USD 500,000. Tomokazu Harimoto beat Wang Chuqin 4-2 in the men’s singles final, a result that gave the home crowd a local winner against one of the sport’s biggest names and set the tone for what this tournament can deliver when the best are in the same hall.

The 2025 player list underscored the level WTT usually brings to Yokohama, with Lin Shidong, Wang Chuqin, Tomokazu Harimoto, Felix Lebrun and Truls Moregard among the names in the field. That mix of Chinese depth, Japanese star power and European challengers is part of what makes the Champions tier distinct, and it is the reason the Yokohama stop has become one of the calendar’s more attractive sales moments.

WTT had already signaled that ticket sales would kick off soon and directed fans toward WTT Fan priority ticket access before the public on-sale. With general tickets now available and the field fixed, the Yokohama event has moved from planning to purchase, and the first matches in early August will carry the same kind of weight that made last year’s final such a clear local marker.