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)

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
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

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ranking progression DIAZ Adriana. ittf.com, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Adriana Díaz consigue su boleto para los Juegos Olímpicos , article from April 1, 2016 (Spanish) (accessed November 17, 2019)
3. ↑ Adriana Díaz 'elated and anxious' to be at Rio 2016. ittf.com, August 3, 2016, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Latin American players impress in Brazil. ittf.com, August 7, 2016, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
5. ^ Hugo Calderano and Adriana Diaz crowned Pan American champions. ittf.com, September 18, 2017, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
6. ↑ World Cup places booked: Adriana Diaz and Zhang Mo Chengdu bound. ittf.com, February 3, 2019, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Adriana Diaz and Hugo Calderano receive prestigious awards nominations. ittf.com, November 13, 2019, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Titles defended but champions face major opposition in high quality field. ittf.com, February 7, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 .