On December 14, 2021, the ITTF updated the world rankings, and Xu Xin, the Olympic champion of the national table tennis who currently holds the 3rd place, is in a very bad situation, because the 4th place Brazilian fiercester Hugo Calderano is only 22 points away from him, which is very easy to catch up!
Considering that Xu Xin has basically retreated to the second line of the arena recently, it is entirely possible for Hugo to refresh the world ranking record of Table Tennis Players in the Americas and impact the throne of the 3rd place in the world, worthy of being the top master who once defeated Fan Zhendong and swept Lin Gaoyuan twice: with his presence, the competition in table tennis has become more exciting!
Born in 1996, Hugo is a super dark horse on the rise of the world table tennis world in recent years: he has learned volleyball and high jump since he was a child, so his physical fitness is super good, his strength is huge, his endurance is outstanding, and he feels that he can play ten games in one breath without effort; in addition, Hugo is usually a 13th-order Rubik's Cube player, which shows that his memory and mental arithmetic ability are also beyond ordinary people.
It is precisely because of such a good talent that even if Hugo is born in a football country with a very general table tennis foundation, he can force himself to train himself to the world-class level, break through the national table tennis world championship defense line many times, and also defeat the top masters of Japan, South Korea and Germany.
As early as the 2016 Austrian Open, Hugo had defeated Wang Chuqin, but Wang Chuqin was still in his infancy and was not a world champion; but in 2018, Hugo ushered in a peak of his career, the Qatar Open swept Lin Gaoyuan, Zhang Benzhihe 4-0, 4-1 Lector, and later defeated Fan Zhendong 4-2 in the finals at the end of the year!
In the following 3 years, Hugo's state was average, but at the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships, he once led Liang Jingkun 3-0 but did not grasp it, and the result was reversed by the other side in 4 consecutive sets; but not long after, Hugo swept Lin Gaoyuan again 3-0 in the WTT World Cup final, and the other side could not do anything.
It is precisely because of its own very high level, coupled with the reason that hugo has been able to win the championship in the Competition in the Americas for many years, Hugo's ranking has been high, has been in the world's top ten for a long time, last month's ranking has reached the 4th position, and now it is only one step away from the 3rd, it is indeed a long face for American athletes!
Since Xu Xin has basically stopped participating in the competition recently, and Hugo is still active in the international table tennis world, plus the Americas still have a lot of points to earn, it is entirely possible that his world ranking will go further. And Ma Long, who is currently ranked in front of Xu Xin, is also in a "semi-retreat" state, is Hugo going to hit the world's No. 2 position? It's exciting to think about!
Of course, the athletes after Hugo will definitely catch up, such as the 5th place Zhang Benzhihe, who was ranked 3rd before, and now only 103 points behind Hugo. And lin yunru, Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun and others in the back are not vegetarians, so Hugo is now in the position of having wolves in front and tigers in the back, and if you don't pay attention, you may regress.
However, as we all know, rankings and results do not correspond exactly, so for athletes, winning more games and winning more medals and gold medals is undoubtedly the most important: so can Hugo get a match for his ranking at the World Series? Will he still break through the main defense line of national table tennis? The suspense is still there, let's wait and see!