Beatriz Fiore and Davi Fujii win Brasileirão de Inverno crowns

Beatriz Fiore and Davi Fujii left the Brasileirão de Inverno with the event’s biggest technical prizes, a pair of Absoluto A titles that carried more weight than a routine weekend trophy. The crowns came on Thursday, May 21, at the Centro de Treinamento Paralímpico Brasileiro in São Paulo, inside a competition that the Confederação Brasileira de Tênis de Mesa framed as one of the key reference points on the national calendar.

Fiore’s run was the sharper of the two and the one that most clearly suggested a player in control of her game. She moved through the group stage without losing a set, then kept the pressure on in the knockout rounds, beating Gabriella Zago 3-0 in the round of 16 and Lhays Stolarski 3-0 in the quarterfinals. Those straight-set wins mattered because they came against opponents strong enough to reach the business end of the draw, yet Fiore never let either match drift into a longer tactical battle.

Fujii’s title landed on the men’s side of the Absoluto A bracket, the category the federation treats as the tournament’s top technical battleground. Even without a longer match-by-match route attached to the result, the significance is clear: this was the title that put him at the center of a field built to measure the country’s best against one another, not just to fill a trophy list. In a competition with that much depth, the winner is never just the player who survives the day. He is the one who handles the standard set by everyone else in the draw.

The broader setting amplified both wins. The 2026 Brasileirão de Inverno ran through Saturday, May 23, and featured 176 categories, 4,559 matches, athletes from 25 Brazilian states and 341 coaches. That volume is what turns an Absoluto A title into a meaningful marker: it was earned inside one of the country’s largest domestic table tennis gatherings, where every round sits inside a crowded competitive hierarchy.

The event also drew outside attention from Bruna Takahashi, the world No. 23 in the ITTF rankings at the time, who visited on Friday, May 22, signed autographs and met fans and young players. Against that backdrop, Fiore’s clean route and Fujii’s title strengthened their claims in Brazil’s senior order. The next test is whether these Absoluto A crowns become a one-weekend statement or the start of a real shift in who sets the domestic pace.