2024
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In October, Hugo won the Pan American Championships for the fifth time, achieving a decade of hegemony in the Americas: this was his 15th singles title on the continent since 2014.
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In August, Hugo made history at Paris-2024 by becoming the first athlete from outside Europe and Asia to reach an Olympic semi-final in the Singles event. In the Men’s Team event, he reached the quarter-finals with the Brazilian team for the second time in a row. (Photo: Gaspar Nóbrega/COB)
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In June, Hugo won his seventh title on the WTT circuit by clinching the Star Contender Ljubljana. With an impeccable run, he only lost two games throughout the competition and lifted the trophy after beating Frenchman Felix Lebrun in the final by 4-0.
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In May, Hugo won the title at the WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro. He delivered a flawless performance in the competition, losing just one game in the five matches he played. In the decider, Hugo beat world medalist An Jaehyun, celebrated with the crowd and lifted the trophy in his hometown.
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In March, Hugo was runner-up at the WTT Champions Incheon. He won four out of five matches, two of them against opponents ranked in the top five of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) world rankings. (Photo: WTT)
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In January, Hugo was runner-up in the important WTT Star Contender Goa. He won four matches, three of them against top-20 players, on his way to the final.
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2023
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In November, Hugo had a historic participation in the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. He became the first male athlete in the history of the event to clinch the singles champion title three times, and finished the competition with three medals: gold in singles and teams events and silver in doubles, with partner Vitor Ishiy. (Photo: Javier Vergara/Santiago 2023)
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In October, Hugo won the WTT Contender Muscat title, in Oman, and tied with the Chinese Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin as the biggest WTT winner since the international circuit was refurbished in 2021, with five titles.
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In September, in Havana, Cuba, Hugo won the Pan-American singles championships for the fourth time, and led Brazil to win the team competition of the event, a result that sealed the country’s qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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In June, Hugo announced his return to the Bundesliga. He signed a contract to play the 2023-2024 season for TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen, team which he played for between 2014 and 2021.
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At the beginning of February, Hugo was once again voted Fan Favorite at the 2022 Brazilian Olympic Awards. After winning in 2019 and 2022, he became the first athlete to receive the award twice. (Photo: Alexandre Loureiro/COB)
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At the end of January, Hugo launched Hugo Calderano’s Methodology by FitPong to bring table tennis to gyms, schools, training centers, clubs and companies throughout Brazil. Developed in partnership with FitPong table tennis academy, the Methodology is inspired by Hugo’s training concepts and principles perfected over almost 20 years.
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One week after his title in Durban, Hugo won the WTT Contender Doha, in Qatar. He became the greatest champion of the WTT series since its launch, in 2021, with four titles.
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Hugo started off the 2023 season on a right foot: in January, he won the WTT Contender Durban, in South Africa. It was his third WTT title since the international circuit was refurbished in 2021.
2022
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Hugo made it to the prestigious Forbes Under 30 list, promoted by the Brazilian edition of Forbes magazine. The list choose brilliant young people under 30 years old who stood out throughout the year.
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In November, Hugo won for the 3rd time the Pan-American Championships, in Chile – his 12th Continental singles title since 2014.
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In August, Hugo won the WTT Contender Tunis, his 4th title at the table tennis international circuit. He lost only one game in the entire competition.
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In July, Hugo signed a contract with four-time national champion Kinoshita Meister Tokyo to play the 2022/23 season of the T-League, the Japanese table tennis league.
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Hugo started 2022 reaching one more historical milestone: in January, he joined the Top 3 at the world ranking for the first time. Above him, only the Chinese Fan Zhendong and Ma Long.
2021
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In November, Hugo won the bronze medal at the WTT Cup Finals, the table tennis season-ending event which gathers the 16 top ranked players.
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In November, Hugo finished 5th at the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, USA. This was the best result ever for Brazil at the competition.
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In November, Hugo won the singles title at the Pan American Championships, in Lima, Peru. After the victory, he reached the 4th place at the world ranking for the first time in his career.
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In November, Hugo made his debut with the Russian club Fakel Gazprom Orenburg in the second stage of the Champions League season. He won the five matches he played.
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Hugo won the most expressive title of his career in September at the WTT Star Contender Doha. The result pushed him for the first time to the Top 5 at the world ranking.
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In July, Hugo achieved the best result of Brazilian table tennis at the Olympics. He finished fifth in both singles and teams events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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In April, Hugo bid farewell to TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen. In the seven seasons he played for the team, they reached 6 finals and won 2 titles: the German league and the German Cup, both in 2019.
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In February, Hugo signed a contract with five-time European champion Fakel Gazprom Orenburg (Russia) to play the Champions League 2021/22.
2020
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In November, Hugo reached the milestone of 1,000 international matches during the 2020 ITTF Finals. He had 751 victories in 122 tournaments and won 58 gold, 15 silver and 34 bronze medals.
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Hugo led Ochsenhausen to its third consecutive Bundesliga final in June. His team was the runner-up of the 2019/2020 German League season.
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In February, Hugo won the Pan American Cup for the 3rd time, his 10th singles continental title in 11 tournaments. The victory qualified him for the 2020 ITTF Men’s World Cup.
2019
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Hugo became the first table tennis player to be voted Fan Favorite at the Brazilian Olympic Awards. He received 47% of the votes.
(Photo: Abelardo Mendes Jr./rededoesporte.gov.br)
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For the second time, Hugo is featured on the cover of japanese magazine World Table Tennis, the most important table tennis publication in the world.
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In October, Hugo led the Brazilian national team to the gold medal at the Latin America Team Qualification, booking their tickets to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. He had already secured his single spot by winning the Pan American Games.
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Hugo won three medals at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games, in August: gold in singles and doubles (with Gustavo Tsuboi) and bronze in the teams event. Having won all of the 23 matches he played in Toronto 2015 and Lima 2019, Hugo remains unbeaten in Pan American Games (Photo: Abelardo Mendes Jr/ rededoesporte.gov.br)
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In July, Hugo became the non-asian best ranked in the world, reaching the 7th place on the list.
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In February, Hugo won the Pan American Cup for the second year in a row. He also booked his ticket to the ITTF Men’s World Cup.
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In January, Hugo signed a long-term sponsorship deal with Xiom, the biggest table tennis company in South Korea. He remains partnered with Cornilleau as an ambassador for Leisure products.
2018
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In his first ITTF World Tour Grand Finals appearance, Hugo beat current world ranking #1 Fan Zhendong and won the bronze medal.
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In December, 2018, Hugo reached the 6th place at the world ranking. It is the best position for a non European or Asian player since the ITTF ranking was officially established.
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In 2018, Hugo was nominated for the first time for the Male Table Tennis ITTF Star award. The other nominees were Fan Zhendong, Timo Boll and Tomokazu Harimoto.
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In June, 2018, Hugo won the title at the Pan American Cup, in Paraguay, booking his place at the 2018 Men’s World Cup.
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Hugo led Brazil to reach fifth place at the World Team Championships, in Sweden. It was the best ever result for a Brazilian team in the present format of the competition.
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Hugo pulled off a spectacular performance to become runner-up at the Qatar Open, in March: he beat world # 1, Timo Boll, world # 4, Lin Gaoyuan and world #12, Tomokazu Harimoto, current Japanese national champion. This was the best ever individual result for Brazil at a World Tour Platinum event.
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In March, 2018, Hugo, once again, made history. World ranking 15. The best position for a latin american athlete in the history of table tennis.
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In February, Hugo was chosen to receive the Brazilian Olympic Awards as the best table tennis athlete for the fifth consecutive year.
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Hugo started 2018 with a great performance at the Hungarian Open, in January. He won a bronze medal, losing only at the semi finals to the then world number 2, Fan Zhendong.
2017
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In September, Hugo won the singles title at the first Pan American Championships which were staged in Cartagena, Colombia. He won five matches in a row, yielding a single game in the whole competition.
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In August, at the Czech Open, Hugo won bronze medals in the singles and doubles event, playing alongside Simon Gauzy.
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In the 2017 ITTF World Championships, Hugo reached the third round in singles and the R16 in doubles, playing alongside Gustavo Tsuboi.
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In May, Hugo won both the singles and the doubles titles at the Brazilian Open, in São Paulo. It was his first competition in Brazil after the Rio Olympic Games.
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In March, Hugo signed a sponsorship agreement to join Team Nissan 2.0, a group of 11 olympic and paralympic athletes supported by the Japanese automaker.
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In February, Hugo reached #17 in the ITTF World Ranking, becoming the best ranked latin american player in history.
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Hugo started the year well. In January, playing alongside Gustavo Tsuboi, he was runner-up at the Hungarian Open Doubles tournament.
2016
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In november, two impressive results in World Tour Major events: silver medalist in the singles tournament in the Austrian Open and gold medalist in doubles in the Swedish Open, playing alongside Gustavo Tsuboi.
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Hugo finished ninth in the singles event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, in August, equaling the best result by a Brazilian at the Olympics.
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In June, Hugo was crowned champion of the Latin American Cup, in Guatemala, booking his ticket to the 2016 World Cup.
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Hugo won his second U-21 World Tour title in March, after beating Hong Kong’s Ho Kwan Kit at the Kuwait Open final.
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In February, 2016, in Puerto Rico, Hugo won the Latin American Championships for the third time.
2015
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In December 2015, Hugo was nominated by ITTF as 2015 Breakthrough Star finalist. Later that month, for the third consecutive year, he received the Brazil Olympic Award as the best table tennis athlete in the country.
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On July 25, Hugo became the youngest ever Pan American champion and qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games.
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In July, in Toronto, Canada, Hugo won the teams gold medal at the Pan American games, playing alongside Thiago Monteiro and Gustavo Tsuboi.
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In March, in Argentina, Hugo became Latin American champion for the second consecutive year.
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In February, Hugo was doubles runner-up in the Qatar Open, playing with Gustavo Tsuboi. It was the first time in history that a pair from the Americas reached the finals in a Super Series tournament.
2014
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In 2014, for the second consecutive year, Hugo received the Brazil Olympic Award as the best table tennis athlete in the country.
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In December, Hugo won the silver medal at the ITTF Grand Finals U-21 tournament, in Thailand.
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In August 2014, Hugo won the bronze medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.
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In June, 2014, Hugo won the U21 category of the ITTF Japan Open, beating the reigning World junior champion, Jang Woojin at the final match.
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At 17, Hugo moved to Germany to play for Ochsenhausen in the first division of the Bundesliga.
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In March 2014, at 17, he became Latin American champion in the Dominican Republic.
2013
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In December, 2013, Hugo received the Brazil Olympic Award, as the best table tennis athlete of the year.
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In September, 2013, Hugo became the youngest athlete to ever win a leg of the ITTF World Tour by winning the competition which took place in Santos, Brazil.
2012
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In 2012, Hugo signed a sponsorship agreement with Cornilleau.
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In July, 2012, Hugo was invited to join a group of sixteen talented young athletes whom the Brazilian Olympic Committee took to the Olympic Games in London to experience the Olympic atmosphere for the first time.
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In January, 2012, he was bronze medalist at the ITTF Global Cadet Challenge in Puerto Rico.
2011
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In 2011, Hugo won a competition in Europe for the first time, the ITTF Polish Cadet Open.
2010
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At 14, Hugo left his hometown, Rio de Janeiro, to practice and play for São Caetano do Sul.
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In 2010, Hugo traveled to Europe for the first time to compete and practice at the Werner Schlager Academy.
2009
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In 2009, Hugo received the award for the best 12-14 year-old school athlete in Brazil.
2008
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Hugo’s first international competition was the U13 Latin American Championships in Argentina, in 2008, where he got the bronze medal in doubles with Daniel Carvalho.
2006
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In 2006, he participated in the Brazilian National Championships for the first time, winning the bronze medal in the U11 category.
2005
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In 2005, he started practicing table tennis.
1996
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Hugo was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 22, 1996.