Hugo Calderano It is in the final of the Table Tennis World Cup. The Brazilian defeated Chinese Wang Chuqin, the world’s number 2, and got the classification in an unprecedented way.
Highlight of the Paris Olympics, Calderano decides the world title before Lin Shidongfrom China, this Sunday (20). The opponent leads the world ranking.
In the tournament, the Tennist Table exceeded names like Wang Chuqin and Harimoto Tomokazu, second and third best of today.
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Hugo Calderano x Lin Shidong: Where to watch the final
- Data: Sunday, April 20
- Hours: 9:15 am
- Local: Macau, China
- Where to watch: CazéTV (Youtube)
Who is Hugo Calderano?
Born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1996, Hugo Calderano began playing table tennis at the age of eight. In addition to the sport for which he arrived at the Olympics, the athlete practiced volleyball and athletics until he was 12 years old. Highlight in the sport since young people, moved to São Caetano do Sul, in São Paulo, at 14, to train with the Brazilian Table Tennis Team.
In 2013, at the age of 17, he was the youngest athlete to win a stage of the World Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Circuit. The player is also the first in the Americas to reach the top-3 of the federation ranking. Calderano currently plays at Germany Ochsenhausen, but had stints at Russia’s Fakel Gazprom Orenburg and Kinoshita Meister Tokyo. In 2024, he ranked fourth at the Paris Olympics.
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Sports enthusiast, Calderano has a hobby to practice basketball, volleyball and tennis. The Brazilian is also a magic cube aficion, having about 70 and getting them, according to the athlete’s official website, in about nine seconds-in the 3×3 cube, his record is 5.3 seconds. The tablet is vegetarian and speaks seven languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, Mandarin, French and Italian.
Self -taught, Calderano learned to read and write alone at 4 and liked to be challenged to do head accounts. Carioca also knows what are all the capitals of all countries in the world.
Male world ranking
| P. | S15 | Athlete | Country | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | = | Lin Shidong | China | 8325 |
| 2 | = | Wang Chuqin | China | 6925 |
| 3 | = | Tomokazu Harimoto | Japan | 4725 |
| 4 | = | Liang Jingkun | China | 3550 |
| 5 | = | Hugo Calderano | Brazil | 3250 |
| 6 | = | Felix Lebrun | France | 3170 |
| 7 | = | Truls Moregard | Sweden | 3065 |
| 8 | = | Patrick Franziska | Germany | 2920 |
| 9 | = | Lin Gaoyuan | China | 2500 |
| 10 | = | Alexis Lebrun | France | 2420 |
| 11 | = | Dang Qiu | Germany | 2300 |
| 12 | 1 | Xiang Peng | China | 2270 |
| 13 | -1 | Jang Woojin | South Korea | 2201 |
| 14 | = | Darko Jorgic | Slovenia | 2020 |
| 15 | = | Lin Yun-Ju | Taiwan | 1960 |
| 16 | = | Anton Kallberg | Sweden | 1685 |
| 17 | = | Benedikt Duda | Germany | 1675 |
| 18 | = | Jonathan Groth | Denmark | 1425 |
| 19 | 5 | An Jaehyun | South Korea | 1405 |
| 20 | -1 | Omar Assar | Egypt | 1290 |
| 21 | -1 | Aruna paintings | Nigeria | 1290 |
| 22 | -1 | Lee Sang your | South Korea | 1280 |
| 23 | 9 | Sora Matsushima | Japan | 1280 |
| 24 | -2 | OH Junsung | South Korea | 1220 |
| 25 | -2 | Dimitrij Ovtcharov | Germany | 1215 |
| 26 | -1 | Shunsuke Togami | Japan | 1170 |
| 27 | -1 | Kao cheng-jui | Taiwan | 1160 |
| 28 | 1 | Chen Yuanyu | China | 1120 |
| 29 | -2 | Hiroto Shinozuka | Japan | 1115 |
| 30 | = | Yukiya uda | Japan | 968 |
| 31 | 2 | Anders Lind | Denmark | 940 |
| 32 | -1 | For daeseong | South Korea | 935 |
| 33 | -5 | Jha | USA | 930 |
| 34 | = | Thibault Poret | France | 888 |
| 35 | = | Alvaro Robles | Spain | 825 |
| 36 | = | Finn Luu | Australia | 795 |
| 37 | 4 | Zhou Qiao | China | 750 |
| 38 | -1 | Ricardo Walther | Germany | 744 |
| 39 | -1 | Nicholas Lum | Australia | 720 |
| 40 | -1 | Tomislav Pulcar | Croatia | 705 |
| 41 | -1 | Xue Fei | China | 694 |
| 42 | 2 | Lim Jonghoon | South Korea | 665 |
| 43 | -1 | Yuta Tanaka | Japan | 643 |
| 44 | -1 | Hwan Bae | Australia | 628 |
| 45 | = | Maharu Yoshimura | Japan | 605 |
| 46 | = | Mohamed el-Beiali | Egypt | 583 |
| 47 | = | Manav thakkar | India | 580 |
| 48 | 1 | Wong Chun Ting | Hong Kong | 565 |
| 49 | 1 | Milosz Redzimski | Poland | 553 |
| 50 | 1 | Aditya networks | Australia | 553 |
| 51 | -3 | Huang Youzheng | China | 550 |
| 52 | = | Vitor Ishiy | Brazil | 549 |
| 53 | = | Wen Ruibo | China | 545 |
| 54 | = | Noshad alamiyan | Iran | 525 |
| 55 | = | Simon Gauzy | France | 505 |
| 56 | 9 | Flavien Cotton | France | 500 |
| 57 | 3 | Feng Yi-Hsin | Taiwan | 465 |
| 58 | -1 | Xu Yingbin | China | 448 |
| 59 | -3 | Kirill Gerassimenko | Kazakhstan | 440 |
| 60 | -2 | Eduard Ionescu | Romania | 427 |
| 61 | 6 | Zeng Beixun | China | 425 |
| 62 | -3 | Liam Pitchford | England | 420 |
| 63 | -2 | Youssef Abdel-Aziz | Egypt | 412 |
| 64 | -2 | Huang Yan-Cheng | Taiwan | 410 |
| 65 | -2 | Eugene Wang | Canada | 402 |
| 66 | -2 | Andrej Gacina | Croatia | 400 |
| 67 | -1 | Liao Cheng-Ting | Taiwan | 385 |
| 68 | = | Mother Desai | India | 365 |
| 69 | 7 | Steffen Mengel | Germany | 364 |
| 70 | 4 | Kay stumper | Germany | 357 |
| 71 | 4 | Yuto Muramatsu | Japan | 356 |
| 72 | -2 | Marcos Freitas | Portugal | 355 |
| 73 | -2 | Ovidiu Ionescu | Romania | 355 |
| 74 | -2 | Lilian bardet | France | 350 |
| 75 | -2 | Manush U. Shah | India | 349 |
| 76 | -7 | Chang Yu-An | Taiwan | 340 |
| 77 | = | Mattias Falck | Sweden | 327 |
| 78 | = | Leonardo IIzuka | Brazil | 314 |
| 79 | 1 | Sharath achanta | India | 295 |
| 80 | 1 | Ma Jinbao | USA | 292 |
| 81 | 15 | Kazuki Hamada | Japan | 289 |
| 82 | -3 | Alberto Mino | Ecuador | 289 |
| 83 | 4 | Martin Allegro | Belgium | 289 |
| 84 | 8 | Xu Haidong | China | 288 |
| 85 | -3 | Edward LY | Canada | 288 |
| 86 | -3 | Other Bertelsmeier | Germany | 285 |
| 87 | -3 | Chan Baldwin | Hong Kong | 284 |
| 88 | -3 | Kuo Guan-Hong | Taiwan | 280 |
| 89 | -3 | Quek Izaac | Singapore | 280 |
| 90 | -1 | Mizuki Oikawa | Japan | 279 |
| 91 | -3 | Cho Seungmin | South Korea | 275 |
| 92 | -2 | Apollon | Portugal | 259 |
| 93 | -2 | Snethit suravajjula | India | 254 |
| 94 | -1 | Eric Jouti | Brazil | 248 |
| 95 | -1 | Punch | Norway | 247 |
| 96 | -1 | Iulian Chirita | Romania | 246 |
| 97 | 22 | Park Ganghyeon | South Korea | 235 |
| 98 | -1 | Jules Rolland | France | 232 |
| 99 | -1 | Joe Seyfried | France | 230 |
| 100 | -1 | Olajide Older | Nigeria | 224 |
