With the historic victory at the Table Tennis World Cup in Macao, Hugo Calderano climbed two positions in the Ittf (International Table Tennis Federation) world ranking and appeared on Tuesday (22) in third place.
It is the best career place already achieved by the 28 -year -old Carioca. He had already reached the world’s third post for the first time in 2022.
After the Paris games, when he stayed in fourth place – in Brazil’s best campaign in Olympics – he had also reached that same position in the world ranking.
In front of him are only the ranking leader Lin Shidong, defeated by Calderano in the World Cup, and Wang Chuqin (2nd), which the Brazilian exceeded in the semifinal.
In the Top 100, Brazilians Vitor Ishiy (46th), Leonardo Iizuka (77th) and Eric Jouti (91st) appear.
In the women’s category, Bruna Takahashi, Calderano’s girlfriend, climbed eight positions and appeared in 16th, the best ever reached by a Brazilian. She advanced until the quarterfinals at the World Cup, the best campaign in the country in the women’s category.
His sister, Giulia Takahashi, climbed a position in the ranking update and is the 80th in the world.
