Hugo Calderano

Hugo Calderano
ITTF World Tour 2017 German Open, Magdeburg
Other spellings:	Hugo Marinho Borges Calderano (full name)
Nation:	Brazil Portugal
Date of birth:	June 22, 1996
Place of birth:	Rio de Janeiro
Size:	181 cm
Playing hand:	Right handed
How to play:	Shakehand
Current world rankings :	6 (April 2020)
Best world ranking :	6 (Dec. 2018 – Mar. 2019, Aug. – Dec. 2019, Apr. 2020)
Last update of the infobox: February 10, 2020

Hugo Calderano (born June 22, 1996 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian table tennis player . The right-hander has been competing for the TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen in the Bundesliga since 2014 . He is multiple Latin American champion.

Career

Hugo Calderano has won five Word Junior Circuit tournaments. In 2012 and 2013 he took part in the World Championships, but did not come close to medal ranks. At the age of fifteen, he defeated the Belgian Jean-Michel Saive at the Brazilian Open in 2012 and took silver in doubles. His first individual medal on the World Tour followed in 2013 when he won the Brazilian Open, and at the World Youth Championship in the same year he reached the quarter-finals in singles and doubles.

In 2014 he moved from the Brazilian club Sa Caetano de Sul to the TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen and to the Liebherr Masters College there. The greatest success in the league so far came Calderano with a smooth 3-0 win against Timo Boll, who was more than fifty places in the world rankings before him . In 2014 he also won bronze in the individual at the Youth Olympic Games .

From 2014 to 2016 he won the Latin American Championship three times in a row in singles and with the team, and in 2016 he also won the Latin America Cup, making him the first player to hold both titles at the same time. He also won singles and with the team at the Pan American Games in 2015 and qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he reached the round of 16 in singles, but met South Korea with the team in the first round and was eliminated. In July 2016, in addition to his Brazilian citizenship, thanks to his Portuguese grandfather, he also received Portuguese citizenship, which means that he can be used in European club competitions as an EU citizen.

In his first participation in the World Cup in October, he reached the round of 16, in which he lost to Xu Xin 4-0. Thanks to successes at the Austrian Open, among others, he moved up to 17th place in the world rankings in February 2017, which was a new record. In 2017 he was eliminated from the World Cup in the round of 32 against Xu Xin, was Pan American champion, but did not take part in the Panamerican Cup, so he did not qualify for the World Cup . At the Qatar Open in March 2018, he defeated Timo Boll, Tomokazu Harimoto and Lin Gaoyuan the numbers 1, 12 and 4 in the world rankings - he only gave up one set - and was defeated 0: 4 in the final to the vice-world champion Fan Zhendong , whereby he could not use clear guides and set balls in the first two sets. With the Brazilian team at the 2018 World Cup , he defeated, among other things, vice European champions Portugal and surprisingly reached the quarter-finals, which were lost to Germany . In July he reached a place in the top 10 of the world rankings for the first time, but at the World Cup in October he was eliminated in the group stage. In December, he moved up to 6th place in the world rankings and beat world number one fan Zhendong in the quarter-finals of the Grand Finals , but was then eliminated by Tomokazu Harimoto.

In the 2018/19 season he was German champion and cup winner with TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen . At the 2019 World Cup , he made it to the eighth finals and the quarter-finals at the World Cup .

Private

Hugo Calderano's sister is a Brazilian master student.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
BRA	Olympic games	2016	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 16			9
BRA	Pan American Games	2019	Lima	BY	gold	gold		Semifinals
BRA	Pan American Games	2015	Markham	CAN	gold			gold
BRA	Pan American Championship	2017	Cartagena	COL	gold
BRA	Latin American Championship	2016	San Juan	PURE	gold			gold
BRA	Latin American Championship	2015	Buenos Aires	ARG	gold	last 16		gold
BRA	Latin American Championship	2014	Santo Domingo	DOM	gold	silver	Quarter finals	gold
BRA	Panamerica Cup	2020	Guaynabo	PURE	gold
BRA	Panamerica Cup	2019	Guaynabo	PURE	gold
BRA	Panamerica Cup	2018	Asunción	PAR	gold
BRA	Latin America Cup	2016	Guatemala City	GUA	gold
BRA	Latin America Cup	2015	Havana	CUB	Quarter finals
BRA	ITTF Challenge Series	2017	São Paulo	BRA	gold	gold
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2019	Linz	AUT	Semifinals
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2019	Olomouc	CZE	Semifinals
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2018	Doha	QAT	silver	last 16
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2018	Budapest	HUN	Semifinals
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2017	Olomouc	CZE	Semifinals	Semifinals
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2016	Stockholm	SWE	last 32	gold
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2016	Linz	AUT	silver	last 16
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2014	Santos	BRA	last 16
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2014	Yokohama	JPN	last 16	last 16
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2014	Incheon City	COR	last 32	Quarter finals
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2014	Doha	QAT	last 64
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2014	Kuwait City	KUW	last 64
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2014	Szombathely	HUN	last 64
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2013	Olomouc	CZE		last 16
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2013	Santos	BRA	gold
BRA	ITTF World Tour	2012	Santos	BRA	last 16	silver
BRA	ITTF Pro Tour	2011	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 32	last 16
BRA	ITTF World Tour Grand Finals	2019	Zhengzhou	CHN	Quarter finals
BRA	ITTF World Tour Grand Finals	2018	Incheon	COR	Semifinals
BRA	World Championship	2019	Budapest	HUN	last 16
BRA	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				Quarter finals
BRA	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	last 32	last 16
BRA	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				26th
BRA	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	CHN	last 64	last 16	last 32
BRA	World Championship	2014	Tokyo	JPN				17th
BRA	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	last 128	last 32
BRA	World Championship	2012	Dortmund	GER				28
BRA	World cup	2019	Cheng you	CHN	Quarter finals
BRA	World cup	2018	Paris	FRA	17th to 20th space
BRA	World cup	2016	Saarbrücken	GER	last 16
BRA	Youth World Championship	2014	Shanghai	CHN	last 16
BRA	Youth World Championship	2013	Rabat	MAR	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	last 64	8th
BRA	Youth World Championship	2012	Hyderabad	IND	last 16
BRA	Youth Olympic Games	2014	Nanjing	JPN	bronze			last 16
BRA	World Junior Circuit	2013	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	gold
BRA	World Junior Circuit	2013	Ismailia	EGY	Quarter finals
BRA	World Junior Circuit	2013	Wladyslawowo	POLE	silver
BRA	World Junior Circuit	2012	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	gold
BRA	World Junior Circuit	2012	Puebla	MEX	gold
BRA	World Junior Circuit	2012	Cetniewo	POLE	gold
BRA	World Junior Circuit	2012	Senec	SVK	Semifinals
BRA	World Junior Circuit	2012	Platja d'Aro	ESP	Quarter finals
BRA	World Junior Circuit	2012	Buenos Aires	ARG	gold
BRA	World Junior Circuit	2012	Hodonin	CZE	Quarter finals

literature

• Jürgen Schattmann: The dream hunter , table tennis magazine , 2014/12 page 20

Web links

Commons : Hugo Calderano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage (accessed on November 24, 2014)
• Hugo Calderano Article about Hugo Calderano on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed November 24, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.tt-news.de/de/tischtennis/news/l/63/
2. ↑ http://tv.borussia-duesseldorf.de/vs-ochsenhausen-duesseldorf-calderano-boll
3. ↑ ittf.com - A Step Ahead, Hugo Calderano Prevails, Three in Succession ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 8, 2016)  
4. ↑ ittf.com - Hugo Calderano and Lady Ruano Win Latin American Cup Titles ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 8, 2016)  
5. ↑ ttbl.de - Calderano receives dual citizenship (accessed on August 30, 2016)
6. ↑ Calderano flies flag for Brazil to shock the world in Doha. ittf.com, March 10, 2018, accessed March 12, 2018 . 
7. ^ Ian Marshall: Fan Zhendong ends Brazilian dreams, top man. ittf.com, March 12, 2018, accessed March 12, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Grand Finals: Hugo Calderano throws Fan Zhendong out! mytischtennis.de, December 15, 2018, accessed December 15, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Ochsenhausen wins the double. ttbl.de, May 25, 2019, accessed on February 18, 2020 . 
10. ^ Updates from Budapest: Day Five. ittf.com, April 25, 2019, accessed February 18, 2020 . 
11. ↑ World Cup: China this time too strong for Boll and Ovtcharov. mytischtennis.de, November 30, 2019, accessed on February 18, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Hugo Calderano results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed November 24, 2014)