On September 13, Beijing time, in the quarter-finals of the WTT Macau Championship, Hugo defeated Francesca 4-2 to advance to the semi-finals, with scores of six innings: 13-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-3, 4-11, 11-8. Hugo's opponent in the semi-finals is Linde, who has eliminated two Chinese players in a row.
Brazil media is celebrating Hugo because Hugo has the opportunity to surpass Zhang Benzhihe in this stop and return to the third place in the world. Zhang Benzhihe only scored 15 points in the first round, while Hugo has scored 375 points in the semi-finals. If he wins the men's singles championship, he will score 1,000 points and the runner-up will also have 700 points. Brazilian media also reminds fans that Hugo has scored 375 points.
Hugo has also been in good shape recently. According to Brazilian media reports, Hugo has entered the finals in 5 of the last six matches and won 4 championships: WTT Star Challenge Ljubljana, WTT regular challenge Buenos Aires, WTT Star Challenge Iguazu Station, and Macau World Cup. It is worth mentioning that he also won the men's singles runner-up in the Doha World Table Tennis Championships.
2025 is a bumper year for Hugo. The winning of the Macau World Cup made him the first non-Asian and European singles champion, and the first World Cup singles champion in the Americas; the World Table Tennis Championships entered the finals and the first player in the Americas to enter the finals. The 29-year-old Hugo lets fans around the world know that Brazil is good in addition to football, and Brazilians are very good at both hands and feet.
The four men's singles quarterfinals in the Macau Championship: Hugo, Lin De, Wang Chuqin, Zhang Yuzhen. I wonder if Wang Chuqin and Hugo can meet in the finals? I still remember that the men's singles final of the World Table Tennis Championships was Hugo defeated by Wang Chuqin.
