Hugo Calderano
Calderano in 2012
Personal information
Full nameHugo Marinho Borges Calderano
NationalityBrazilian
Born (1996-06-22) 22 June 1996
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb)
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed, shakehand grip
Highest ranking3 (1 February 2022)[1]
Current ranking5 (2 January 2024)[2]
ClubTTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing  Brazil
WTT Cup Finals
Bronze medal – third place2021 SingaporeSingles
ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
Bronze medal – third place2018 IncheonSingles
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place2015 TorontoSingles
Gold medal – first place2015 TorontoTeam
Gold medal – first place2019 LimaSingles
Gold medal – first place2019 LimaDoubles
Gold medal – first place2023 SantiagoSingles
Gold medal – first place2023 SantiagoTeam
Silver medal – second place2023 SantiagoDoubles
Bronze medal – third place2019 LimaTeam
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place2017 Cartagena de IndiasSingles
Gold medal – first place2017 Cartagena de IndiasTeam
Gold medal – first place2021 LimaSingles
Gold medal – first place2021 LimaTeam
Gold medal – first place2022 SantiagoSingles
Gold medal – first place2022 SantiagoTeam
Gold medal – first place2023 HavanaSingles
Gold medal – first place2023 HavanaTeam
Pan American Cup
Gold medal – first place2018 AsunciónSingles
Gold medal – first place2019 GuaynaboSingles
Gold medal – first place2020 GuaynaboSingles
Latin American Championships
Gold medal – first place2014 Santo DomingoSingles
Gold medal – first place2014 Santo DomingoTeam
Gold medal – first place2015 Buenos AiresSingles
Gold medal – first place2015 Buenos AiresTeam
Gold medal – first place2016 San JuanSingles
Gold medal – first place2016 San JuanTeam
Silver medal – second place2014 Santo DomingoDoubles
Latin American Table Tennis Cup
Gold medal – first place2016 Guatemala CitySingles
Youth Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2014 NanjingSingles

Hugo Marinho Borges Calderano (born 22 June 1996, in Rio de Janeiro) is a table tennis player from Brazil.[3][4] In January 2022, he peaked at number 3 in the world rankings, becoming the greatest Americas player of all time.[5]

He is the first-ever player from Latin America to reach the Top 10 of the ITTF World Rankings. Calderano is also well known for beating China's Fan Zhendong at the quarterfinals of the 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Incheon, South Korea.

Early life

Born in Rio de Janeiro, he started playing table tennis at the age of eight. Since his mother, father and grandfather were physical education teachers, the boy was encouraged to play sports from an early age. From the age of 10 to 12, he was a member of the Rio volleyball team and was pre-school state champion in the long jump.[6][7]

At the age of 14, Calderano left Rio de Janeiro, and the Laranjeiras club, home of Fluminense, where he trained, for São Caetano do Sul, in São Paulo, to wear the uniform of the Brazilian table tennis team for the first time. In 2010, at the age of 14, he was South American and Latin American Children's Champion. In 2011, at the age of 15, he was Brazilian Youth Champion, Latin American Children's Champion, in Peru, individually and in teams; and Champion of the Argentine Open Youth in individual, team and doubles. [8][9]

In 2012, at the age of 16, he won an individual bronze medal at the World Cadet Challenge in Puerto Rico; he was South American Youth Champion, in individual, teams and doubles; and champion in youth open competitions in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Poland.[10][11]

In 2013, at the age of 17, he was the youngest table tennis player to win a stage of the World Tour and the first to win stages of the Youth and Adult World Tour in the same year. He won an individual silver medal at the Polish Youth Open, was Champion of the Brazilian Open Adult in individual, and Champion of the Brazilian Open Youth in individual and team.[12][13]

International Career

2014-2016

In 2014, at the age of 18, he had his first Olympic experience, obtaining bronze at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. He was also a silver medalist in the ITTF Grand Finals under-21 tournament, Japan Open under-21 Champion, Brazilian Adult Singles Champion and Latin American Adult Champion.[14][15][16]

From 2014 to 2021, Hugo played for the Ochsenhausen team, in the first division of the German Bundesliga.[17][18]

In 2015, he won two gold medals at the Pan American Games, in the individual and team events. He was also a Latin American individual and team champion, and a silver medalist in the Qatar Open doubles tournament. He participated in the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships, losing in the 2nd round.[19][20]

In 2016, Calderano was Latin American Champion in individual and team competitions; Champion of the Latin American Table Tennis Cup, in Guatemala; Kuwait Open under-21 champion; Austrian Open singles silver medal and Swedish Open doubles tournament champion.[21][22] In October 2016, Calderano, 31st in the world rankings, lost in the round of 16 of the World Cup, in Saarbrücken, Germany, 4-0 (11/8, 11/5, 11/6 and 11/7) for the Chinese Xu Xin, third in the classification. It was the second most important event of the season, behind only the Olympics.[23]

2016 Summer Olympics

Calderano participated in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, where he reached the round of 16, a feat that only Hugo Hoyama, a Brazilian legend in the sport, had achieved for Brazil, in Atlanta-1996. Calderano thus finished 9th in the competition.[24][25][26]

2017-2020

Calderano, 2017

Calderano entered the table tennis world top 20 in January 2017.[27] When he was number 25 in the world rankings, he participated in the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships, losing in the 3rd round to the Chinese Xu Xin, 3rd in the world, by 4 to 1 (partials of 12/10, 7/11, 11/6, 11/3 and 11/4).[28] At the 2017 Pan American Table Tennis Championships held in Cartagena, he obtained two gold medals in singles and team.[29] This year, he was also a singles and doubles bronze medalist at the Czech Republic Open; Singles and doubles champion at the Brazilian Open, and silver medalist in the doubles tournament at the Hungarian Open.[30]

At the 2018 ITTF Pan-America Cup, Calderano won the gold medal.[31]

Calderano entered the table tennis world top 10 in July 2018.[32]

In December 2018, Calderano won a historic bronze medal at the 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals. In the semi-final, a few hours after beating the Chinese Fan Zhendong, number 1 in the world and voted the best player of the season, Calderano was defeated by the Japanese Tomokazu Harimoto, fifth in the world rankings, 4-0 (7/11, 8/11 , 8/11 and 5/11). The Japanese phenomenon, just 15 years old, played his quarter-final match a day earlier. Calderano had less than five hours to recover from an extremely exhausting duel against the best in the world. Calderano started the year ranked 17th in the world, and arrived at this tournament sixth in the rankings.[33][34]

Other important results for Calderano in 2018 were the individual silver medal at the Qatar Open, the individual bronze medal at the Hungarian Open, runner-up in the 2017/18 Bundesliga, and the title of Brazilian adult champion.[35]

At the 2019 ITTF Pan-America Cup, Calderano won the gold medal, becoming two-time champion of the tournament.[36]

Calderano at the 2019 Pan American Games

At the 2019 Pan American Games, Calderano won gold in singles (becoming two-time champion of the competition) defeating the Chinese, naturalized Dominican, Jiaji Wu in the final, in addition to obtaining gold in doubles, and bronze in teams.[37]

At the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, Calderano reached the 4th round (round of 16), where he faced Chinese Ma Long, two-time world champion and Olympic champion, and was defeated by 4 sets to 1, partial 8/11, 11/8, 11/1, 11/3 and 11/8. [38]

Other important results for Calderano in 2019 were the individual bronze medal at the Austrian Open, the individual bronze medal at the Czech Republic Open, the 2018/19 Bundesliga title and the 2018/19 German Cup title.[39]

At the 2020 ITTF Pan-America Cup, Calderano won the gold medal, becoming three-time champion of the tournament.[40] In 2020, he was also runner-up in the 2019/20 Bundesliga and in the 2019/20 German Cup.[41]

2021

In 2021, Calderano announced he was leaving the German Bundesliga and switching to the Russian Champion's league to focus more on international competition.[42] However, Calderano will continue to live in Germany and train in the same training center; he will compete in a different league.[43]

Calderano entered World Table Tennis' inaugural event WTT Doha. After receiving a minor scare in the first round to co-patriot Gustavo Tsuboi, Calderano comfortably beat An Jaehyun in the round of 16.[44] However, he lost to Simon Gauzy in the quarterfinals of the WTT Contender Event. In the WTT Star Contender event, he bowed out in the round of 16 to Darko Jorgic after missing his own serve at deuce in the fifth game.[45] Although it briefly looked like Lin Yun-Ju had passed Calderano for the Olympic fourth seed following the results of WTT Doha, in April ITTF amended the seeding system so that Calderano was once again slated to be the fourth seed.[46]

In an interview with JAPAN Forward in July, Calderano named mentality as one of his strong suits and stated that he used to work with a mental coach until the coach died.[47]

Calderano made up for his loss in the WTT Contender Doha and WTT Star Contender Doha earlier in March by winning the title at WTT Star Contender Doha in September. He defeated Liam Pitchford and Darko Jorgic in the semifinal and final, respectively, on his way to victory.[48]

In September 2021, Calderano entered the table tennis world top 5 for the first time. [49]

At the 2021 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, Calderano became two-time Pan American champion in singles and in the team category. [50]

At the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, Calderano reached the quarter-finals, where he faced the Chinese Liang Jingkun, and went on to open 3 sets to 0, but ended up eliminated 4-3. With this, he achieved the best result in Brazil's history in this tournament, finishing in 5th place.[51][52]

In December 2021, Calderano obtained another historic medal, obtaining bronze at the WTT Cup Finals (a tournament that ended this year's season and featured the 16 best table tennis players of the season, in Singapore. The event replaced the ITTF Grand Finals this year when the international circuit underwent some changes). Calderano ended 2021 as the best season of his career, ranked number four in the world. [53]

2020 Olympic Games

Calderano at Tokyo 2020

In February 2021, Calderano was already three years among the top ten players in the world in table tennis and was ranked sixth in the world rankings. Calderano qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as seed No.4, being the best non-Asian in the world ranking. [54]

By beating the South Korean Jang Woojin, number 12 in the ranking, by 4 sets to 3, he became the first Brazilian and Latin American to reach the quarter-finals of table tennis in the Olympic Games.[55][56] His Olympic Challenge ended in the quarterfinals with a 2:4 defeat against Dimitrij Ovtcharov, the eventual bronze medallist, finishing in 5th place.[57]

2022-present

In November 2022, at the 2022 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, Calderano became three-time Pan American champion in singles and in the team category. The table tennis player completed seven years undefeated in this continental competition.[58]

In May 2023, Calderano went to compete in the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships. However, he had not trained for 10 days, after feeling the injury suffered in his previous competition, the WTT Champions Macau. In Macau, in the defeat to Chinese Ma Long, Calderano slipped during a point and felt pain in the hamstring muscle. Due to this, he was eliminated in the 1st round by Puerto Rican Brian Afanador, 74th in the world rankings, by 4 sets to 2, a table tennis player with whom Calderano had already played four other times, always with the Brazilian winning.[59]

In July 2023, Hugo Calderano reached the mark of 250 consecutive weeks in the world table tennis Top20.[60]

In September 2023, at the 2023 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, Calderano became four-time champion in singles and in the team category, remaining undefeated in this continental competition.[61][62]

In November 2023, participating in the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Calderano made history by becoming the first three-time consecutive table tennis champion at the Pan American Games. He also won gold in Team and silver in Doubles.[63][64]

Other important results for Calderano in 2023 were: Runner-up in the 2022/23 T-League, WTT Contender Doha individual champion, WTT Contender Durban individual champion, Bronze medal at WTT Grand Smash Singapore, Bronze medal at WTT Star Contender Ljubljana and individual WTT Contender Muscat Champion.[65]

Singles titles

Year Tournament Final opponent Score Ref
2013 ITTF World Tour, Americas, Brazil Open Brazil Gustavo Tsuboi 4–2 [66]
2014 Latin American Championships Brazil Gustavo Tsuboi 4–1 [67]
2015 Latin American Championships Brazil Cazuo Matsumoto 4–3 [68]
Pan American Games Brazil Gustavo Tsuboi 4–3 [69]
2016 Latin American Championships Ecuador Alberto Mino 4–0 [70]
Latin American Cup Mexico Marcos Madrid 4–1 [71]
2017 ITTF Challenge, Brazil Open India Anthony Amalraj 4–1 [72]
Pan American Championships Brazil Thiago Monteiro 4–0 [73]
2018 Pan American Cup Brazil Gustavo Tsuboi 4–2 [74]
2019 Pan American Cup United States Kanak Jha 4–1 [75]
Pan American Games Dominican Republic Jiaji Wu 4–3 [76]
2020 Pan American Cup Brazil Gustavo Tsuboi 4–1 [77]
2021 WTT Star Contender Doha Slovenia Darko Jorgić 4–2 [78]
Pan American Championships Canada Eugene Wang 4–2 [79]
2022 WTT Contender Tunis France Alexis Lebrun 4–1 [80]
Pan American Championships United States Kanak Jha 4–0 [81]
2023 WTT Contender Durban Ukraine Yaroslav Zhmudenko 4–0 [82]
WTT Contender Doha South Korea Jang Woo-jin 4–1 [83]
Pan American Championships Chile Nicolas Burgos 4–1 [84]

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