Adriana Díaz
Adriana Díaz | |
Nation: | Puerto Rico |
Date of birth: | October 31, 2000 |
Place of birth: | Utuado (Puerto Rico) |
Playing hand: | Right |
How to play: | Shakehand , attack |
Current world rankings : | 19th |
Best world ranking : | 19 (March 2020) |
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Adriana Díaz (born October 31, 2000 in Utuado ) is a Puerto Rican table tennis player . She took part in the 2016 Olympic Games and won gold at the Pan American Cup, the Pan American Championships and the Pan American Games.
Career
Díaz had her first international appearance in 2009 at the China Junior and Cadet Open, further participation in youth tournaments followed from 2011. In the following year she took part for the first time in the Youth Latin American Championship, where she won the titles in individual, mixed and team competitions could. In 2013 she won silver in singles and gold in doubles at the same competition and played her first adult tournament with the Latin American Championship. In the years that followed, she won numerous other medals at the Latin and Pan-American Youth Championships, and in the adult category she won one bronze and three silver medals at the 2015 Latin American Championships.
In February 2016, Díaz moved up to the top 100 in the world rankings - in March she was the top-ranked American player for the first time - and qualified at the age of 15 to participate in the individual competition at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. She was the first female table tennis player from Puerto Rico to participate in the Olympic Games. After a win against the Nigerian Funke Oshonaike , she was eliminated against the French woman Li Xue . In 2017 she became the Pan American individual champion, and after the introduction of the new world ranking calculation in January 2018, she jumped from 81st to 37th.
In 2019 she won the Pan American Cup and qualified for the World Cup , from which she was eliminated in the group stage. In addition, she won gold in singles, doubles (with her sister Melanie ) and team competitions as well as bronze in mixed at the Pan American Games . In 2020, Díaz finished in the top 20 of the world rankings for the first time and won the Pan American Cup for the second time.
Private
Adriana Díaz's cousin Brian Afanador was also represented at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Her older sister Melanie Díaz is also one of Puerto Rico's top players.
Results overview
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team | U-21 |
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PURE | Olympic games | 2016 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | last 48 | ||||
PURE | Youth Olympic Games | 2018 | Buenos Aires | ARG | last 16 | last 16 | |||
PURE | Pan American Games | 2019 | Lima | BY | gold | gold | Semifinals | gold | |
PURE | Pan American Games | 2015 | Toronto | CAN | Quarter finals | Semifinals | |||
PURE | Panamerican Cup | 2020 | Guaynabo | PURE | gold | ||||
PURE | Panamerican Cup | 2019 | Guaynabo | PURE | gold | ||||
PURE | Latin America Cup | 2015 | Havana | CUB | Quarter finals | ||||
PURE | Latin America Cup | 2014 | Asunción | PAR | 4th Place | ||||
PURE | Pan American Championship | 2018 | Santiago | CHI | last 16 | Quarter finals | gold | 5th-6th space | |
PURE | Pan American Championship | 2017 | Cartagena de Indias | COL | gold | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
PURE | Latin American Championship | 2016 | San Juan | PURE | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | Semifinals | silver | gold |
PURE | Latin American Championship | 2015 | Buenos Aires | ARG | Semifinals | silver | silver | silver | |
PURE | Latin American Championship | 2014 | Santo Domingo | DOM | last 16 | Quarter finals | last 16 | last 16 | |
PURE | Latin American Championship | 2013 | San Salvador | ESA | last 32 | last 16 | last 32 | last 16 | |
PURE | Youth Pan American Championship | 2018 | Santo Domingo | DOM | gold | Semifinals | last 16 | Semifinals | |
PURE | Youth Pan American Championship | 2017 | Buenos Aires | ARG | silver | Semifinals | Quarter finals | Semifinals | |
PURE | Youth Pan American Championship | 2016 | Burnaby | CAN | gold | silver | gold | gold | |
PURE | Youth Latin American Championship | 2015 | Aguado | PURE | silver | gold | gold | gold | |
PURE | Youth Latin American Championship | 2014 | Medellin | COL | gold | gold | gold | gold | |
PURE | Youth Latin American Championship | 2013 | Lima | BY | silver | gold | |||
PURE | Youth Latin American Championship | 2012 | Pueblo | MEX | gold | gold | gold | ||
PURE | ITTF Challenge Series | 2020 | Lisbon | POR | last 64 | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
PURE | ITTF Challenge Series | 2019 | Asunción | PAR | Semifinals | silver | gold | ||
PURE | ITTF Challenge Series | 2019 | Zagreb | HRV | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
PURE | ITTF Challenge Series | 2019 | Guadalajara | ESP | last 16 | last 16 | gold | ||
PURE | ITTF Challenge Series | 2018 | Otocec | SLO | Quarter finals | Agony | Semifinals | ||
PURE | ITTF Challenge Series | 2017 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
PURE | ITTF Challenge Series | 2017 | Otocec | SLO | last 16 | Agony | gold | ||
PURE | ITTF Challenge Series | 2017 | Minsk | BLR | last 32 | Agony | Semifinals | ||
PURE | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Stockholm | SWE | Agony | Agony | Semifinals | ||
PURE | ITTF World Tour | 2017 | Olomouc | CZE | last 32 | Agony | gold | ||
PURE | ITTF World Tour | 2017 | Panagyurishte | BUL | last 32 | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
PURE | ITTF World Tour | 2016 | Minsk | BLR | Quarter finals | Semifinals | |||
PURE | ITTF World Tour | 2016 | Panagyurishte | BUL | last 32 | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
PURE | World cup | 2019 | Cheng you | CHN | 17th to 20th space | ||||
PURE | World Championship | 2019 | Budapest | HUN | last 32 | last 32 | last 32 | ||
PURE | World Championship | 2018 | Halmstad | SWE | 29.- 32. space | ||||
PURE | World Championship | 2017 | Dusseldorf | GER | last 64 | last 64 | last 64 | ||
PURE | World Championship | 2016 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 29.- 32. space | ||||
PURE | World Championship | 2015 | Suzhou | CHN | last 128 | last 32 | last 64 | ||
PURE | World Championship | 2014 | Tokyo | JPN | 41-44 space | ||||
PURE | Youth World Championship | 2018 | Bendigo | OUT | last 16 | last 64 | |||
PURE | Youth World Championship | 2017 | Riva del Garda | ITA | last 16 | last 32 | Quarter finals | 15th place | |
PURE | Youth World Championship | 2016 | Cape Town | RSA | last 16 | last 32 | last 64 | 13th place | |
PURE | Youth World Championship | 2014 | Shanghai | CHN | last 64 | last 16 | last 32 | 10th place | |
PURE | Youth World Championship | 2013 | Rabat | MAR | last 64 | Agony | last 64 |
Web links
- Adriana Díaz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed November 17, 2019)
- World rankings
- Results overview (accessed on November 17, 2019)
- Adriana Díaz Article about Adriana Díaz on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Ranking progression DIAZ Adriana. ittf.com, accessed August 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Adriana Díaz consigue su boleto para los Juegos Olímpicos , article from April 1, 2016 (Spanish) (accessed November 17, 2019)
- ↑ Adriana Díaz 'elated and anxious' to be at Rio 2016. ittf.com, August 3, 2016, accessed August 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Latin American players impress in Brazil. ittf.com, August 7, 2016, accessed August 7, 2020 .
- ^ Hugo Calderano and Adriana Diaz crowned Pan American champions. ittf.com, September 18, 2017, accessed August 7, 2020 .
- ↑ World Cup places booked: Adriana Diaz and Zhang Mo Chengdu bound. ittf.com, February 3, 2019, accessed August 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Adriana Diaz and Hugo Calderano receive prestigious awards nominations. ittf.com, November 13, 2019, accessed August 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Titles defended but champions face major opposition in high quality field. ittf.com, February 7, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Díaz, Adriana |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Díaz González, Adriana Yamila |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Puerto Rican table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 2000 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Utuado , Puerto Rico |