ITTF World Cup 2025: Calderano bags historic first-ever title for Brazil, Sun Yingsha defends women’s crown

ITTF World Cup 2025: Calderano bags historic first-ever title for Brazil, Sun Yingsha defends women’s crown

Hugo Calderano bagged a historic first-ever men’s singles title for Brazil while Sun Yingsha continued China’s dominance in women’s singles at the ITTF World Cup in Macao, China, on Sunday.

Brazil's world-leading #5 left the number one Lin Shidong this Sunday in the World Cup Finals and became the first non-Chinese since 2017 to win a major men's tournament.

Hugo Calderano took home the World Cup title in Macau after crushing world number one Lin Shidong in the final. After the biggest title of his career, the Brazilian world number five broke down. – I don't know how it happened. It's crazy to talk about it, says Calderano.

Brazilian Wins The Table Tennis World Cup, putting an end to...

Brazilian Table Tennis player Hugo Calderano just won the Table Tennis World Cup, to understand how monumental this is, you have to understand that China has only lost the world Cup twice in 20 years, only Germany has been able to put a dent to the massive hegemony of China in the sport, To win this, Hugo had to beat Japan's number 1 player, China's Number 1 and number 2 players ranked number 1 and number 2 in the world, so he was battling Dark …

Brazilian Hugo Calderano, number 5 of the ranking, made history by becoming the first player on the American continent to prevail in the World Cup table tennis, by defeating Chinese Lin Shidong, number one in the final world, by 4-1. Calderano, 28, culminated his spectacular tournament in Macau with a victory in a match in which he began at the mercy of his rival, but ended up being far superior to win with partials of 6-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-4 and…

Brazilian was the first athlete born outside Asia or Europe to win the tournament. Table tennis player Bruna Takahashi used social media to congratulate her boyfriend, Hugo Calderano, for his historic World Cup victory. At 28, the athlete beat the current number one in the world in the sport, in China, and became the first athlete born outside Asia or Europe to win the tournament this Sunday.