Hugo Calderano

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Hugo Calderano
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Calderano in 2012
Personal information
Full nameHugo Marinho Borges Calderano
Born (1996-06-22) 22 June 1996 (age 28)
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb)
Table tennis career Table tennis pictogram.svg
Playing style Right-handed, shakehand grip
Highest ranking3 (1 February 2022) [1]
Current ranking3 (6 August 2024) [2]
ClubTTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
WTT Cup Finals
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2021 SingaporeSingles
ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Incheon Singles
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Toronto Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Toronto Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Lima Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Lima Doubles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Santiago Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Santiago Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Santiago Doubles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Lima Team
Pan American Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Cartagena de Indias Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Cartagena de Indias Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Lima Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Lima Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Santiago Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Santiago Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Havana Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Havana Team
Pan American Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Asunción Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Guaynabo Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Guaynabo Singles
Latin American Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2014 Santo DomingoSingles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2014 Santo DomingoTeam
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 Buenos AiresSingles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 Buenos AiresTeam
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 San Juan Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 San Juan Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2014 Santo DomingoDoubles
Latin American Table Tennis Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2016 Guatemala CitySingles
Youth Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Nanjing Singles

Hugo Marinho Borges Calderano (born 22 June 1996, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian table tennis player. [3] [4] In January 2022, he peaked at number 3 in the world rankings, becoming the highest-ranked Americas player in history. [5] By becoming the first table tennis player from the Americas to reach an Olympic semi-final, he returned to the world No. 3 position in August 2024. [6]

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Calderano is the first-ever player from Latin America to reach the Top 10 of the ITTF World Rankings. He has placed in the top three in many major competitions, including the Table Tennis World Cup, the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, the WTT Champions and the Grand Smash, in addition to placing fifth in the World Table Tennis Championships and fourth in the Olympic Games. He notably defeated China's Fan Zhendong twice: in the quarterfinals of the 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, and at the 2024 WTT Champions. [7] He also defeated China's Liang Jingkun in the quarterfinals of the 2024 WTT Champions Chongqing. [8]

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. [9] [10]

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. [11] [12]

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. [13] [14]

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. [15] [16]

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. [17] [18] [19]

From 2014 to 2021, Hugo played for the Ochsenhausen team, in the first division of the German Bundesliga. [20] [21]

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. [22] [23]

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. [24] [25] 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. [26]

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. [27] [28] [29]

2017–2020

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Calderano, 2017

Calderano entered the table tennis world top 20 in January 2017. [30] 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). [31] At the 2017 Pan American Table Tennis Championships held in Cartagena, he obtained two gold medals in singles and team. [32] 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. [33]

At the 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships, Calderano reached the quarterfinals playing with Gustavo Tsuboi and Eric Jouti. [34]

At the 2018 ITTF Pan-America Cup, Calderano won the gold medal. [35]

Calderano entered the table tennis world top 10 in July 2018. [36]

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. [37] [38]

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. [39]

At the 2019 ITTF Pan-America Cup, Calderano won the gold medal, becoming two-time champion of the tournament. [40]

Calderano at the 2019 Pan American Games Hugocalderano.jpg
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. [41]

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. [42]

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. [43]

At the 2020 ITTF Pan-America Cup, Calderano won the gold medal, becoming three-time champion of the tournament. [44] In 2020, he was also runner-up in the 2019/20 Bundesliga and in the 2019/20 German Cup. [45]

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. [46] However, Calderano will continue to live in Germany and train in the same training center; he will compete in a different league. [47]

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. [48] 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. [49] 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. [50]

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. [51]

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. [52]

In September 2021, Calderano entered the table tennis world top 5 for the first time. [53]

At the 2021 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, Calderano became two-time Pan American champion in singles and in the team category. [54]

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. [55] [56]

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. [57]

2020 Olympic Games

Calderano at Tokyo 2020 Hugo Calderano.jpg
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. [58]

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. [59] [60] His Olympic Challenge ended in the quarterfinals with a 2:4 defeat against Dimitrij Ovtcharov, the eventual bronze medallist, finishing in 5th place. [61]

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. [62]

In March 2023, Calderano competed in the Singapore Grand Smash, a tournament that features the participation of all the top 20 in the world. He defeated world No. 20 Yukiya Uda in the 2nd round; Darko Jorgic, world No. 10, in the round of 16; Quadri Aruna, number 14 in the world, in the quarter-finals, and only lost to the Chinese Ma Long, number 2 in the world, in the semi-final, ending with a historic bronze. [63]

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. [64]

In July 2023, Hugo Calderano reached the mark of 250 consecutive weeks in the world table tennis Top20. [65]

At the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2023, in Slovenia, Calderano reached the semifinals, where he faced Chinese Fan Zhendong, number two in the world. After starting losing 2 sets to 0, Calderano tied the game at 2 sets to 2. In the last set, the Chinese managed to win 11 to 7, going to the final and becoming champion of the tournament. [66]

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. [67] [68]

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. [69] [70]

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, and individual WTT Contender Muscat Champion. [71]

In January 2024, he was runner-up in the WTT Star Contender Goa, in India, a tournament that can be equated to a tennis Masters 1000. Calderano beat the German Dimitrij Ovtcharov, 12th in the world rankings, in the semi-final, and had previously beaten the South Korean Lim Jonghoon (18th) and the Swedish Anton Källberg (17th). [72]

At the WTT Champions (a tournament that brings together the 32 best in the world in table tennis) held in the city of Incheon, held at the end of March 2024, Calderano carried out one of the greatest campaigns of his life. In the quarter-finals, he eliminated Frenchman Felix Lebrun, 5th best in the world, who had taken the WTT Star Contender title from him in January. In the semi-final, he beat the current two-time world champion in singles, silver medalist in Tokyo 2020 and number two in the world rankings, the Chinese Fan Zhendong, by 4 sets to 2, reaching the final against another Chinese, Liang Jingkun, number 3 in the world. [73] [74] [75] Calderano finished runner-up in the tournament. He was the only non-Chinese to reach the semi-finals of this tournament, including the men's and women's. [76]

At the 2024 Table Tennis World Cup, now in a new format, Calderano started by winning his 2 games in the group stage by 4 sets to 0. In the round of 16, however, he was drawn to play with the world n.1, the Chinese Wang Chuqin. Calderano played a high-level game with the Chinese, where the Brazilian came out ahead, winning by 2 sets to 1. The leader of the ranking won the next 2 sets, taking the advantage by 3 sets to 2. In the sixth set, very disputed, Chuquin managed to win in a tight 13/11, reaching the quarter-finals. [77]

Playing in the biggest table tennis tournament in Brazil, the WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro, in May 2024, became champion for the first time, losing just 1 set in the entire competition. [78] [79]

Participating in the WTT Champions in Chongqing, China, Calderano had another excellent campaign by reaching the semifinals of the tournament, eliminating the Olympic medalist Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the 2nd round and defeating the Chinese Liang Jingkun, number three in the world at the moment, for the first time in his career, in the quarter-finals. Having to play the quarterfinals and semifinals on the same day, he ended up being eliminated by fellow Chinese Fan Zhendong. In this tournament, Calderano was the only non-Chinese or non-Chinese descendant to reach the semifinals, both in the men's and women's singles draws. [80]

At the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2024, in Slovenia, Calderano reached the semifinals after defeating Swede Mattias Falck, who was runner-up in the 2019 World Championships. [81] He then defeated Cho Dae-seong, 25th in the world, and in the final, Félix Lebrun, 5th in the world (in both games, without losing sets) to obtain a Star Contender trophy for the second time, being one of the biggest titles in his career. [82]

After the title in Slovenia, Calderano secured the number 4 seed position at the Paris Olympics, and decided not to compete in the last two stages of the WTT Circuit, in Lagos, Nigeria, and Tunis, Tunisia, to rest. [83]

In July 2024, he completed 300 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the table tennis world rankings. [84]

2024 Olympic Games

At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, in the Men's singles, in the first round, he beat Cuban Andy Pereira (57th in the ITTF ranking) 4–0 (11/8, 11/7, 11/9, 11/4). In the second round, he eliminated Spaniard Álvaro Robles (34th in the ITTF ranking) 4–2 (7/11, 13/11, 11/9, 8/11, 11/3, 11/5). In the round of 16 he faced Frenchman Alexis Lebrun (16th in the ITTF ranking) eliminating him 4–1 (3/11, 11/5, 11/6, 11/3, 11/8). In the quarterfinals, he eliminated South Korean Jang Woo-jin (13th in the ITTF rankings) 4–0 (11/4, 11/7, 11/5, 11/6), becoming the first table tennis player from the Americas to reach an Olympic semifinal, [85] beating the previous record, achieved by himself at the 2020 Olympics. In the semifinals, Calderano played against Swede Truls Möregårdh, 26th in the world but who was runner-up in the 2021 World Championship, and who eliminated Chinese world No. 1 Wang Chuqin in the 2nd round. [86] [87] In a very close match against the surprise of the competition, Calderano ended up losing 4 sets to 2 (10/12, 14/16, 11/7, 7/11, 12/10, 8/11) and went on to fight for the bronze against Félix Lebrun, where he was defeated 4 games to 0. [88] He also participated in the team competition, where Brazil equaled its best ever placing in the Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals. [89]

After his performance at the Olympics in France, Hugo Calderano returned to 3rd place in the world ranking. He had 4,070 points, behind only the Chinese Wang Chuqin, with 7,925 points, and Fan Zhendong, with 5,523. [90] [91] [92]

Singles titles

YearTournamentFinal opponentScoreRef
2013 ITTF World Tour, Americas, Brazil Open Flag of Brazil.svg Gustavo Tsuboi 4–2 [93]
2014Latin American Championships Flag of Brazil.svg Gustavo Tsuboi4–1 [94]
2015Latin American Championships Flag of Brazil.svg Cazuo Matsumoto 4–3 [95]
Pan American Games Flag of Brazil.svg Gustavo Tsuboi4–3 [96]
2016 Latin American Championships Flag of Ecuador.svg Alberto Mino 4–0 [97]
Latin American Cup Flag of Mexico.svg Marcos Madrid 4–1 [98]
2017 ITTF Challenge, Brazil Open Flag of India.svg Anthony Amalraj 4–1 [99]
Pan American Championships Flag of Brazil.svg Thiago Monteiro 4–0 [100]
2018 Pan American Cup Flag of Brazil.svg Gustavo Tsuboi4–2 [101]
2019 Pan American Cup Flag of the United States.svg Kanak Jha 4–1 [102]
Pan American Games Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Jiaji Wu4–3 [103]
2020 Pan American Cup Flag of Brazil.svg Gustavo Tsuboi4–1 [104]
2021 WTT Star Contender Doha Flag of Slovenia.svg Darko Jorgić 4–2 [105]
Pan American Championships Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Eugene Wang 4–2 [106]
2022WTT Contender Tunis Flag of France.svg Alexis Lebrun4–1 [107]
Pan American Championships Flag of the United States.svg Kanak Jha4–0 [108]
2023WTT Contender Durban Flag of Ukraine.svg Yaroslav Zhmudenko 4–0 [109]
WTT Contender Doha Flag of South Korea.svg Jang Woo-jin 4–1 [110]
Pan American Championships Flag of Chile.svg Nicolas Burgos4–1 [111]
WTT Contender Muscat Flag of England.svg Liam Pitchford 4–3 [112]
Pan American Games Flag of Cuba.svg Andy Pereira4–0 [113]
2024WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro Flag of South Korea.svg An Jae-hyun 4–0 [114]
WTT Star Contender Ljubljana Flag of France.svg Félix Lebrun 4–0 [115]

Best results by type of tournament

Singles

In January 2022, Calderano peaked at number 3 in the world single rankings. [116]

Doubles

In 2017, the duo Calderano / Tsuboi was the 3rd best in the world rankings, behind only the Japanese Masataka Morizono and Yuya Oshima and the Chinese Xu Xin and Zhang Jike. [130]

Team

From April 2021 to June 2023, the Brazil team was the 6th best in the world. [138] [139] [140]

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  29. ↑ Tênis de mesa: Calderano é eliminado, mas iguala melhor resultado do Brasil
  30. ↑ Hugo Calderano sobe no ranking e entra no top 20 mundial do tênis de mesa
  31. ↑ Mundial: Calderano perde para terceiro do mundo e dá adeus à competição
  32. ↑ Hugo Calderano vence na final, e Brasil encerra Pan-Americano com cinco ouros
  33. ↑ Sobre o Hugo
  34. ↑ Em batalha de quase 3h, Brasil luta, mas perde da Alemanha e está fora do Mundial
  35. ↑ Hugo Calderano garante medalha de ouro na Copa Pan-Americana
  36. ↑ Hugo Calderano entra no top 10 do ranking mundial de tênis de mesa
  37. ↑ Hugo Calderano faz história e fica com o bronze no Grand Finals de tênis de mesa
  38. ↑ Calderano bate número 1 do mundo, mas cai para fenômeno japonês e é bronze no Grand Finals
  39. ↑ Sobre o Hugo
  40. ↑ Calderano leva o título da Copa Pan-Americana e se aproxima do Top 5 Mundial
  41. ↑ Hugo Calderano vence no tênis de mesa e é bicampeão pan-americano
  42. ↑ Ma Long vence Hugo Calderano e avança às quartas do Mundial de tênis de mesa em Budapeste
  43. ↑ Sobre o Hugo
  44. ↑ Em final brasileira, Calderano conquista o tricampeonato da Copa Pan-Americana de Tênis de Mesa
  45. ↑ Sobre o Hugo
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  54. ↑ Têns de Mesa: Hugo Calderano é Ouro no Pan-Americano
  55. ↑ Sobre o Hugo
  56. ↑ Hugo Calderano sofre virada incrível e perde para chinês nas quartas de final do Mundial
  57. ↑ Calderano leva bronze no WTT Cup Finals e encerra 2021 como melhor temporada da carreira
  58. ↑ Sexto do ranking mundial de tênis de mesa, Hugo Calderano é contratado por clube russo
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  62. ↑ Hugo Calderano é campeão e mantém invencibilidade no Pan
  63. ↑ Hugo Calderano é superado por Ma Long nas semifinais e encerra campanha histórica no Grand Smash Singapura com o bronze
  64. ↑ Hugo Calderano perde na estreia do Campeonato Mundial de tênis de mesa
  65. ↑ Hugo Calderano chega a marca de 250 semanas consecutivas no Top20 da WTT
  66. ↑ Hugo Calderano perde para número 2 do mundo na Eslovênia
  67. ↑ Hugo Calderano confirma favoritismo e fatura o ouro no Campeonato Pan-Americano de Tênis de Mesa
  68. ↑ Hugo Calderano lidera Brasil na conquista da vaga olímpica por equipes
  69. ↑ Pan 2023: Hugo Calderano é ouro e conquista tricampeonato
  70. ↑ Pan 2023: Calderano lidera Brasil ao ouro por equipes no tênis de mesa
  71. ↑ Sobre o Hugo
  72. ↑ O sabor agridoce de uma prata importante para Hugo Calderano
  73. ↑ Hugo Calderano vence bicampeão mundial e avança à final do WTT Champions em Incheon
  74. ↑ Calderano vence bicampeão mundial e vai à final do WTT de Incheon
  75. ↑ Hugo Calderano derrota Fan Zhendong e vai à final do WTT de Incheon
  76. ↑ Hugo Calderano vice do WTT Champions
  77. ↑ Calderano faz grande jogo, mas cai para líder do ranking em Macau
  78. ↑ Hugo Calderano é campeão do WTT Rio de Janeiro
  79. ↑ Hugo Calderano conquista o título do WTT Contender do Rio
  80. ↑ Após bater Liang Jingkun, Hugo Calderano se despede do WTT Champions Chongqing na semifinal contra Fan Zhendong
  81. ↑ Calderano chega na semi do Star Contender Liubliana outra vez
  82. ↑ É CAMPEÃO! Hugo Calderano vence Felix Lebrun por 4 sets a 0 e conquista o WTT Star Contender Ljubljana
  83. ↑ Ranking Mundial – Semana 25 – Confirmado na sexta colocação, Hugo Calderano será cabeça de chave olímpico
  84. ↑ As armas de Calderano: conheça três jogadas importantes no arsenal do brasileiro
  85. ↑ Calderano Breaks New Ground: First Non-Asian, Non-European Table Tennis Semifinalist at the Olympics
  86. ↑ Hugo Calderano atropela sul-coreano e garante inédita semifinal no tênis de mesa
  87. ↑ Hugo Calderano nos Jogos Olímpicos Paris 2024: calendário e todos os resultados do brasileiro no tênis de mesa
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  91. ↑ Hugo Calderano volta a ser 3º do ranking mundial, melhor posição de um mesatenista das Américas
  92. ↑ Mesmo sem medalha no individual, Hugo Calderano sobe no ranking do tênis de mesa
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  116. ↑ Hugo Calderano reaches the best ranking of his career: 3rd in the world in table tennis
  117. ↑ Calderano é tetracampeão do Pan de Tênis de Mesa, Bruna Takahashi leva duas pratas e um bronze
  118. ↑ Pan 2023: Hugo Calderano é ouro e conquista tricampeonato
  119. ↑ É campeão! Hugo Calderano conquista WTT Contender de Doha e leva segundo título em sequência
  120. ↑ Tênis de Mesa: Hugo Calderano conquista título do WTT Contender de Mascate
  121. ↑ Hugo Calderano é campeão do WTT Rio de Janeiro
  122. ↑ É campeão! Hugo Calderano conquista WTT Contender de Doha e leva segundo título em sequência
  123. ↑ É CAMPEÃO! Hugo Calderano vence Felix Lebrun por 4 sets a 0 e conquista o WTT Star Contender Ljubljana
  124. ↑ Hugo Calderano derrota Fan Zhendong e vai à final do WTT de Incheon
  125. ↑ Hugo Calderano é superado por Ma Long nas semifinais e encerra campanha histórica no Grand Smash Singapura com o bronze
  126. ↑ Calderano bate número 1 do mundo, mas cai para fenômeno japonês e é bronze no Grand Finals
  127. ↑ Calderano leva bronze no WTT Cup Finals e encerra 2021 como melhor temporada da carreira
  128. ↑ Hugo Calderano sofre virada incrível e perde para chinês nas quartas de final do Mundial
  129. ↑ Hugo Calderano atropela sul-coreano e garante inédita semifinal no tênis de mesa
  130. ↑ Aberto do Brasil: Calderano e Tsuboi chegam a mais uma final de duplas em Circuito Mundial
  131. ↑ Hugo Calderano e Gustavo Tsuboi são campeões nas duplas masculinas em Lima 2019
  132. ↑ Mundial 2015: Após 61 anos, Cazuo e Thiago igualam melhor resultado brasileiro na história
  133. ↑ Aberto do Brasil: Calderano e Tsuboi chegam a mais uma final de duplas em Circuito Mundial
  134. ↑ Aberto do Brasil: Calderano e Tsuboi chegam a mais uma final de duplas em Circuito Mundial
  135. ↑ Aberto do Brasil: Calderano e Tsuboi confirmam favoritismo e levam ouro nas duplas
  136. ↑ Mundial 2015: Após 61 anos, Cazuo e Thiago igualam melhor resultado brasileiro na história
  137. ↑ Mundial 2017: Calderano bate iraniano e está a um jogo das oitavas no individual
  138. ↑ Em novo ranking de equipes, Brasil é o sexto melhor no masculino e volta a figurar no Top 20 do feminino
  139. ↑ ITTF WORLD TEAM RANKING 2021 April
  140. ↑ ITTF WORLD TEAM RANKING 2023 June
  141. ↑ Hugo Calderano lidera Brasil na conquista da vaga olímpica por equipes
  142. ↑ Hugo Calderano brilha e Brasil é ouro nas equipes masculinas do tênis de mesa nos Jogos Pan-Americanos 2023
  143. ↑ Tênis de Mesa: Brasil é eliminado nas quartas de final na Copa do Mundo
  144. ↑ Copa do mundo de tenis de mesa dia 3
  145. ↑ Copa do Mundo 2015: Seleção masculina cai diante da China e fica em quinto
  146. ↑ Em batalha de quase 3h, Brasil luta, mas perde da Alemanha e está fora do Mundial
  147. ↑ Tênis de mesa por equipes: Brasil perde para Coréia do Sul nas quartas de final na Olimpíada de Tóquio
  148. ↑ Brasil é eliminado pela França nas quartas do torneio de equipes do tênis de mesa
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