The Europe Smash – Sweden 2026 is a table tennis tournament being held at the Malmö Arena in Malmö, Sweden from 8 to 16 August, offering a total prize of US$1,550,000. The tournament features five competition categories: men’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s singles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles.
In the mixed doubles event, Lin Shidong and Kuai Man emerged as champions, securing their second consecutive Europe Smash title and their fifth Grand Smash title overall. In the women’s doubles event, the Japanese pair Miwa Harimoto and Hina Hayata won their second Grand Smash title in the discipline. In the men’s doubles event, French brothers Félix and Alexis Lebrun claimed their second Grand Smash men’s doubles championship.
In the women's singles event, Wang Manyu won her third Grand Smash title. In the men's, Félix Lebrun also took gold, winning his first Grand Smash title.
Tournament The Europe Smash – Sweden 2026 is the sixteenth tournament of the 2026 WTT Series and is part of the Grand Smash event. This tournament marks the third Grand Smash event on this season's calendar, with a total of four Grand Smash tournaments being contested throughout the season.
Venue This tournament is held at the Malmö Arena in Malmö, Sweden.
Point distribution Below is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the WTT World Ranking for the Grand Smash event.
Event Winner Finalist Semi-finalist Quarter-finalist Round of 16 Round of 24 / 32 Round of 64 Singles 2000 1400 900 580 380 100 20 Doubles 2000 1400 900 580 150 10 —
Prize pool The total prize money is US$1,550,000 with the distribution of the prize money in accordance with WTT regulations.
Event Winner Finalist Semi-finalist Quarter-finalist Round of 16 Round of 24 / 32 Round of 64 Singles $100,000 $50,000 $25,250 $13,750 $9,000 $6,000 $4,000 Doubles $10,000 $6,034 $3,600 $2,650 $2,000 $1,500 —
Notable absences
Notable absences were the 1st ranked players Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha. Sun Yingsha were inittially announced that would participate but withdrew on August 2 due to injury.
Schedule The tournament lasts over 9 days.
#Q Qualification rounds #R Preliminary rounds QF Quarter-finals SF Semi-finals F Finals Date 8 Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug 11 Aug 12 Aug 13 Aug 14 Aug 15 Aug 16 Aug Event Men's singles 1Q 2Q 3Q 1R 2R 3R QF SF F Women's singles 1Q 2Q 3Q 1R 2R 3R QF SF F Men's doubles 1R 2R QF SF F Women's doubles 1R 2R QF SF F Mixed doubles 1R 2R QF SF F
Qualification
Men's singles
The following players qualified for the main draw: Cédric Nuytinck Iulian Chirita Izaac Quek Maciej Kubik Álvaro Robles Deni Kožul Csaba András Miłosz Redzimski
Women's singles
The following players qualified for the main draw: Su Tsz Tung Peng Yu-han Chien Tung-chuan Elena Zaharia Xiaoxin Yang Yoo Ye-rin Giorgia Piccolin Diya Chitale
Men's singles Seeds
Truls Möregårdh (first round) Sora Matsushima (semi-finals) Félix Lebrun (champion) Tomokazu Harimoto (final) Lin Shidong (third round) Lin Yun-ju (second round) Hugo Calderano (quarter-finals) Jang Woo-jin (second round) Alexis Lebrun (quarter-finals) Dang Qiu (first round) Wen Ruibo (second round) Anders Lind (third round) Shunsuke Togami (third round) Darko Jorgić (semi-finals) Vladimir Sidorenko (first round) Patrick Franziska (first round)
Finals
Top half Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half Section 3
Section 4
Women's singles Seeds
Wang Manyu (champion) Miwa Harimoto (semi-finals) Kuai Man (semi-finals) Chen Xingtong (second round) Wang Yidi (final) Hina Hayata (quarter-finals) Sabine Winter (second round) Zhu Yuling (first round) Shin Yu-bin (third round) Satsuki Odo (third round) Chen Yi (quarter-finals) Honoka Hashimoto (second round) Shi Xunyao (quarter-finals) Joo Cheon-hui (second round) Mima Ito (first round) Ying Han (third round)
Finals
Top half Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half Section 3
Section 4
Men's doubles Seeds
Lin Shidong / Wen Ruibo (quarter-finals) Wong Chun Ting / Baldwin Chan (final) Manav Thakkar / Manush Shah (quarter-finals) Oh Jun-sung / Lim Jong-hoon (quarter-finals) Alexis Lebrun / Félix Lebrun (champions) Esteban Dorr / Florian Bourrassaud (second round) Benedikt Duda / Dang Qiu (quarter-finals) Martin Allegro / Adrien Rassenfosse (semi-finals)
Finals
Top half Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half Section 3
Section 4
Women's doubles Seeds
Miwa Harimoto / Hina Hayata (champions) Wang Manyu / Kuai Man (quarter-finals) Shin Yu-bin / Joo Cheon-hui (semi-finals) Miyu Nagasaki / Kim Na-yeong (semi-finals) Diya Chitale / Yashaswini Ghorpade (second round) Doo Hoi Kem / Ng Wing Lam (final) Wang Yidi / Chen Yi (quarter-finals) María Xiao / Anna Hursey (second round)
Finals
Top half Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half Section 3
Section 4
Mixed doubles Seeds
Lim Jong-hoon / Shin Yu-bin (quarter-finals) Hugo Calderano / Bruna Takahashi (second round) Lin Shidong / Kuai Man (champions) Wong Chun Ting / Doo Hoi Kem (final) Manush Shah / Diya Chitale (second round) Álvaro Robles / María Xiao (semi-finals) Dang Qiu / Sabine Winter (quarter-finals) Lin Yun-ju / Cheng I-ching (semi-finals)
Finals
Top half Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half Section 3
Section 4
References
External links Tournament link