Winning the top three in the world in a row, Calderano won the men's singles title at the 2025 World Cup, blocking the fourth consecutive hegemony of national table tennis

The world's No. 5 Brazilian brother Calderano defeated the world's No. 1 Chinese star Lin Shidong 4:1 in the men's singles final of the 2025 Macau World Cup Table Tennis Tournament on the evening of the 20th Beijing time, not only becoming the first American player to win the championship in this competition, but also interrupting the Chinese team's 4 consecutive hegemony.

Calderano, the world's No. 5 Brazilian brother

Calderano played exceptionally well, and after defeating Shinozuka Daito in the first game of the knockout round, he won the world's top three in a row - the world's third Zhang Benzhihe, the world's second Wang Chuqin, and the world's first Lin Shidong, and finally successfully reached the top.

Calderano defeated Lin Shidong 3-2 at the 2023 Durban Challenger, which is also the only record between the two. Today's showdown again, in the first game, Lin Shidong entered the state quickly, leading all the way after the start of 5:2, and taking the lead at 11:6.

From the second game, Calderano turned on the fighting mode, and after 6 draws, he scored 4 points in a row and won 11:7.

In the key third game, Lin Shidong fell behind 5:7, and won the consecutive serve twist and pull, and overtook 9:7, but Calderano played more fiercely at the decisive moment, scoring 4 points in a row, and came back from 11:9.

In the 4th game, Calderano, who killed the red eye, led 4:3 again, and once again played a wave of 7:1 onslaught, and then 11:4, which completely disrupted Lin Shidong's rhythm.

Lin Shidong called an emergency timeout after falling behind 1:3 at the beginning of the fifth game, and once chased it to 4:5, but Calderano also stabilized after the pause, and responded with a wave of 6:1 counterattack, 11:5 won two consecutive battles, and also won the first three-major championship in his career.