{"id":3205,"date":"2025-09-13T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:30:14","slug":"calderano-one-step-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/calderano-one-step-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Calderano one step closer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hugo Calderano is one step closer to silverware, defeating World No.12 Dang Qiu in their Round of 16 showdown 11-3, 12-10, 9-11, 11-9 at WTT Champions Macao 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Thrill from Brazil caught Qiu completely off guard in the first game, winning with an 11-3 tagline, while Calderano saved a game point at 9-10 to claim the second game in deuce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qiu would rebound, however, stealing four consecutive points to take the third game, the German showing signs of a potential comeback on Infinity Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hugo Calderano vs Dang Qiu | MS R16 | #WTTMacao 2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GiNAqsery1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As play progressed in the fourth, though, it looked like the end of the line for Qiu, as Calderano led 10-6 in points. But the Penhold specialist forced his way back to 10-9, saving three match points to fill Macao East Asian Games Dome with excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Calderano held his nerve, winning the final point and securing a ticket to the quarterfinals, where he will meet Qiu\u2019s compatriot Patrick Franziska in an unmissable brawl!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also marching on is Korean player Jang Woojin, who took down Xue Fei in three straight games 11-7, 11-7, 12-10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere, Kuai Man booked her spot in the Women\u2019s Singles quarterfinals, producing a powerful display against Japanese ace Mima Ito (11-5, 10-12, 11-6, 11-4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kuai Man vs Mima Ito | WS R16 | #WTTMacao 2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-SYJA2ky1AQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is now Kuai&#8217;s second victory over Ito in Macao this year, the latter also losing out to the Chinese star in the semifinals of&nbsp;ITTF Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s World Cup Macao 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;We played twice in the first half of the year and have become quite familiar with each other. Our last encounter was also in Macao. I came into today&#8217;s match well prepared, bringing the lessons I learnt&nbsp;from our previous meeting, where I had been trailing most of the time. Today, I was able to execute most of what I had worked on.&#8221; Kuai Man<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourth seed Kuai is set to duel with another Japanese sensation, Satsuki Odo, in what will be the former\u2019s fourth WTT Champions quarterfinals of 2025!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World No.1 Sun Yingsha\u2019s conquest will continue, as she overcame World No.16 Bernadette Szocs in four games 11-5, 9-11, 11-7, 11-9. The event favourite will encounter Adriana Diaz in the next stage, the latter defeating fifth seed Wang Yidi on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Calderano is one step closer to silverware, defeating World No.12 Dang Qiu in their Round of 16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,7],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-newsbeat","tag-table-tennis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugo-Calderano.jpg",1000,660,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugo-Calderano-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugo-Calderano-300x198.jpg",300,198,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugo-Calderano-768x507.jpg",640,423,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugo-Calderano.jpg",640,422,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugo-Calderano.jpg",1000,660,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugo-Calderano.jpg",1000,660,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugo-Calderano-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugo-Calderano-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/international\/\" rel=\"category tag\">International<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/newsbeat\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hugo-Calderano.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3209,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/3209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}