Hugo Marinho Borges Calderano (born 22 June 1996, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian table tennis player.

He notably defeated China's Fan Zhendong twice: in the quarterfinals of the 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, and at the 2024 WTT Champions.

Since his mother, father and grandfather were physical education teachers, the boy was encouraged to play sports from an early age.

[26] Calderano participated in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, where he reached the round of 16, a feat that only Hugo Hoyama, a Brazilian legend in the sport, had achieved for Brazil, in Atlanta-1996.

[31] At the 2017 Pan American Table Tennis Championships held in Cartagena, he obtained two gold medals in singles and team.

[33] At the 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships, Calderano reached the quarterfinals playing with Gustavo Tsuboi and Eric Jouti.

[45] In 2021, Calderano announced he was leaving the German Bundesliga and switching to the Russian Champion's league to focus more on international competition.

In the WTT Star Contender event, he bowed out in the round of 16 to Darko Jorgic after missing his own serve at deuce in the fifth game.

[54] At the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, Calderano reached the quarter-finals, where he faced the Chinese Liang Jingkun, and went on to open 3 sets to 0, but ended up eliminated 4–3.

[58] By beating the South Korean Jang Woojin, number 12 in the ranking, by 4 sets to 3, he became the first Brazilian and Latin American to reach the quarter-finals of table tennis in the Olympic Games.

[59][60] His Olympic Challenge ended in the quarterfinals with a 2:4 defeat against Dimitrij Ovtcharov, the eventual bronze medallist, finishing in 5th place.

In Macau, in the defeat to Chinese Ma Long, Calderano slipped during a point and felt pain in the hamstring muscle.

Due to this, he was eliminated in the 1st round by Puerto Rican Brian Afanador, 74th in the world rankings, by 4 sets to 2, a table tennis player with whom Calderano had already played four other times, always with the Brazilian winning.

[65] At the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2023, in Slovenia, Calderano reached the semifinals, where he faced Chinese Fan Zhendong, number two in the world.

[66] In September 2023, at the 2023 Pan American Table Tennis Championships, Calderano became four-time champion in singles and in the team category, remaining undefeated in this continental competition.

Calderano beat the German Dimitrij Ovtcharov, 12th in the world rankings, in the semi-final, and had previously beaten the South Korean Lim Jonghoon (18th) and the Swedish Anton Källberg (17th).

[76] At the 2024 Table Tennis World Cup, now in a new format, Calderano started by winning his 2 games in the group stage by 4 sets to 0.

[77] Playing in the biggest table tennis tournament in Brazil, the WTT Contender Rio de Janeiro, in May 2024, became champion for the first time, losing just 1 set in the entire competition.

[78][79] Participating in the WTT Champions in Chongqing, China, Calderano had another excellent campaign by reaching the semifinals of the tournament, eliminating the Olympic medalist Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the 2nd round and defeating the Chinese Liang Jingkun, number three in the world at the moment, for the first time in his career, in the quarter-finals.

[80] At the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2024, in Slovenia, Calderano reached the semifinals after defeating Swede Mattias Falck, who was runner-up in the 2019 World Championships.

[82] After the title in Slovenia, Calderano secured the number 4 seed position at the Paris Olympics, and decided not to compete in the last two stages of the WTT Circuit, in Lagos, Nigeria, and Tunis, Tunisia, to rest.

[84] At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, in the Men's singles, in the first round, he beat Cuban Andy Pereira (57th in the ITTF ranking) 4–0 (11/8, 11/7, 11/9, 11/4).

[86][87] In a very close match against the surprise of the competition, Calderano ended up losing 4 sets to 2 (10/12, 14/16, 11/7, 7/11, 12/10, 8/11) and went on to fight for the bronze against Félix Lebrun, where he was defeated 4 games to 0.

[118] In 2017, the duo Calderano / Tsuboi was the 3rd best in the world rankings, behind only the Japanese Masataka Morizono and Yuya Oshima and the Chinese Xu Xin and Zhang Jike.