Calderano "never imagined" that the World Cup men's singles champion had already engraved his name into history

World No. 5 Brazilian brother "Hugo" Calderano defeated the world's No. 1 Chinese star Lin Shidong 4:1 in the men's singles final of the 2025 Macau World Cup Table Tennis Tournament on the evening of the 20th Beijing time to win the first world championship in his career.

World No. 5 Brazilian brother "Hugo" Calderano

Calderano passed all the way in this tournament, and from the top 8 onwards, he even beat the top 3 players in the world: Japan's first brother Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Chinese good players Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong, successfully won the championship and became the first person in the history of the Americas, and at the same time cut off the 4 consecutive hegemony of national table tennis in the World Cup, becoming the latest world champion since Fan Zhendong.

Calderano was full of emotion in an interview after the game, first saying that he had no imagination before the game to win the championship, and admitted that he was very happy when he was sure that he could get the card, and it was a crazy thing for him to finish the top 3 in the world all the way, and now he has engraved his name into the history of table tennis.

Talking about the significance of this championship to himself, Calderano bluntly said that winning this championship after the Olympics is very special, he himself has been working hard and has always believed in himself, speaking of this, Calderano in order to hold back his tears about to burst the embankment, stopped talking and turned his head to the sky, to calm down for a while, Caderano said, "If you told me 1 month ago... I was at a low ebb... Before the words fell, Calderano could not hold back his emotions again: "I want to thank everyone who has supported me in this movement, I can see your messages but I don't have time to reply to everyone, I am grateful for all the support, including from Brazil, my family and friends, thank you." ”