Hugo is a Brazilian table tennis player and is currently ranked #3 in the world. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1996, he began playing table tennis at the age of eight. At fourteen, he moved to São Caetano do Sul to train with the Brazilian National Team, marking the start of his rise on the international stage.
Hugo speaks seven languages:
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, Mandarin, French, and Italian.
He knows the capital of every country in the world.
He can solve a Rubik’s Cube in an average of nine seconds and owns a collection of more than 70 cubes in different shapes and sizes.