Roy Díaz González

Roy Díaz González (* 1953 ) is a former Mexican badminton player . He is the greatest talent that the Mexican badminton sport has produced so far.

Career

Roy Díaz González won his first Mexican title at the age of 14. Shortly afterwards he won the Belgium International men's doubles match with Lee Kin Tat from Singapore. At the age of 16 he was already successful at the Swiss Open, where he won both singles and doubles with Hermann Fröhlich . In 1974 he won single and mixed titles there again. In 1977 he became the Pan American champion. At the Badminton World Cup in 1985 , he was placed in the top 32.

Sporting successes

event	season	discipline	winner
1969	Belgian International	Men's doubles	Lee Kin Tat / Roy Díaz González
1970	Switzerland: International championships	Men's doubles	Hermann Fröhlich / Roy Díaz González
1970	Switzerland: International championships	Men's singles	Roy Díaz González
1972	Mexico International	Men's singles	Roy Díaz González
1972	Mexico International	Men's doubles	Roy Díaz González / Victor Jaramillo
1974	Switzerland: International championships	Men's singles	Roy Díaz González
1974	Switzerland: International championships	Mixed	Roy Díaz González / Deirdre Tyghe
1977	Pan American Championship (Badminton)	Men's singles	Roy Díaz González
1977	Mexican championship	Mixed	Roy Díaz González / Laura Michel
1978	Mexican championship	Men's singles	Roy Díaz González
1978	Mexico International	Men's singles	Roy Díaz González

credentials

• Herbert Scheele (Ed.): The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1971 (Canterbury, Kent, England: JA Jennings Ltd., 1971) 123, 236, 298
• The first Pan-American Championships, World Badminton, July – August 1977, 11