KAWASAKI, Japan (AP) — Yao Ming graced marquees for a decade in the NBA, spurring basketball's growing popularity in China. Table tennis needs the inverse: an eye-catching outsider to get the focus ...

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The crowd packed into Rio Centro Pavilion 3 was small by Olympic standards, just 3,000 or so. But it roared like the audience at a World Cup match, chanting two syllables over and over. Hu-GO! Hu-GO!

Brazilian Hugo Calderano created history at the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships - Doha 2025 Saturday as he became the first South American to reach global final. At the Lusail Sports Complex, ...

BERLIN – Brazilian Hugo Calderano, who won the gold medal in the 2025 table tennis World Cup, said he will miss the WTT US Smash event in Las Vegas this month following delays in getting a visa to the ...

South Korea's Shin Yu-bin beat Japan's Hirano Miu 4-3 in an epic battle in the women's table tennis singles quarterfinal which left both players in tears after more than an hour on Thursday. The ...

Hugo Calderano's historic 2021 season ended this Monday (6). Number four in the ranking of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), the Brazilian won the bronze medal at the WTT Finals, a ...

PARIS (AP) — Brazil’s Hugo Calderano reached an Olympic milestone at the Paris Games on Thursday, becoming the first player from outside Asia or Europe to reach the semifinals in table tennis.

KAWASAKI, JapanKAWASAKI, Japan — Yao Ming graced marquees for a decade in the NBA, spurring basketball’s growing popularity in China. Table tennis needs the inverse: an eye-catching outsider to get ...

PARIS — Brazil's Hugo Calderano reached an Olympic milestone at the Paris Games on Thursday, becoming the first player from outside Asia or Europe to reach the semifinals in table tennis. Calderano ...

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