Hugo Calderano

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]

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Borges and the second or paternal family name is Calderano.

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 (5 August 2023)[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
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 place2022 SantiagoSingles
Gold medal – first place2022 SantiagoTeam
Gold medal – first place2023 HavanaSingles
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

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.

Career
Calderano at the 2019 Pan American Games

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.[6] However, Calderano will continue to live in Germany and train in the same training center; he will compete in a different league.[7]

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.[8] 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.[9] 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.[10]

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.[11]

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.[12]

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. [13]

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.[14][15] His Olympic Challenge ended in the quarterfinals with a 2:4 defeat against Dimitrij Ovtcharov, the eventual bronze medallist.

Singles titles
Year Tournament Final opponent Score Ref
2013 ITTF World Tour, Americas, Brazil Open Brazil Gustavo Tsuboi 4–2 [16]
2014 Latin American Championships Brazil Gustavo Tsuboi 4–1 [17]
2015 Latin American Championships Brazil Cazuo Matsumoto 4–3 [18]
Pan American Games Brazil Gustavo Tsuboi 4–3 [19]
2016 Latin American Championships Ecuador Alberto Mino 4–0 [20]
Latin American Cup Mexico Marcos Madrid 4–1 [21]
2017 ITTF Challenge, Brazil Open India Anthony Amalraj 4–1 [22]
Pan American Championships Brazil Thiago Monteiro 4–0 [23]
2018 Pan American Cup Brazil Gustavo Tsuboi 4–2 [24]
2019 Pan American Cup United States Kanak Jha 4–1 [25]
Pan American Games Dominican Republic Jiaji Wu 4–3 [26]
2020 Pan American Cup Brazil Gustavo Tsuboi 4–1 [27]
2021 WTT Star Contender Doha Slovenia Darko Jorgić 4–2 [28]
Pan American Championships Canada Eugene Wang 4–2 [29]
2022 WTT Contender Tunis France Alexis Lebrun 4–1 [30]
Pan American Championships United States Kanak Jha 4–0 [31]
2023 WTT Contender Durban Ukraine Yaroslav Zhmudenko 4–0 [32]
WTT Contender Doha South Korea Jang Woo-jin 4–1 [33]
Pan American Championships Chile Nicolas Burgos 4–1 [34]

References
  1. "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking Men's Singles 2022 Week #5". ittf.com. 30 January 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  2. "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking". ittf.com. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  3. Time Brasil Hugo Calderano (in Portuguese)
  4. "Table Tennis: CALDERANO Hugo". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  5. Hugo Calderano reaches the best ranking of his career: 3rd in the world in table tennis
  6. "Winners and Losers of China's Withdrawal From WTT Doha". edgesandnets.com. 25 February 2021. Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  7. "Hugo Calderano Interview With JAPAN Forward - Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 12 July 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  8. "Hugo Calderano Defeats An Jaehyun 3-1 In Dominant Fashion - Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 4 March 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  9. "Feng Tianwei Was The Biggest Winner At WTT Doha - Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 17 March 2021. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  10. "World Table Tennis News Roundup – 04/19/21 - Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 19 April 2021. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  11. "Hugo Calderano Interview With JAPAN Forward - Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 12 July 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  12. "Calderano fights back to book semi-final ticket". worldtabletennis.com. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  13. Sexto do ranking mundial de tênis de mesa, Hugo Calderano é contratado por clube russo
  14. "Hugo Calderano Defeats Jang Woojin 4-3 - Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 27 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  15. Hugo Calderano vai às quartas e alcança resultado histórico no tênis de mesa
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  24. "Hugo Calderano and Zhang Mo win in Asuncion". ittf.com. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  25. "Hugo Calderano retains title, powers way to gold". ittf.com. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  26. "Hugo Calderano and Adriana Diaz, Tokyo bound". ittf.com. 8 August 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  27. "Pandemonium in Puerto Rico, Hugo Calderano and Adriana Diaz once again winners". ittf.com. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  28. "WTT Star Contender Doha 2021". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  29. "Hugo Calderano and Adriana Diaz crowned Pan American champions". ittf.com. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  30. "WTT Contender Tunis 2022". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  31. "2022 ITTF Pan American Championships". ittf.com. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  32. "WTT Contender Durban 2023". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  33. "WTT Contender Doha 2023". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  34. "2023 ITTF Pan American Championships". ittf.com. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
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