Tania Luiz

Tania Luiz
Personal information
Birth name Tania Ann Luiz
Country  Australia
Born (1983-08-28) 28 August 1983
Ernakulam, Kerala, India
Residence Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 51 kg (112 lb)
Handedness Right
Coach Ricky Yu (personal)
Lasse Bundgaard (national)
BWF profile

Tania Ann Luiz (born August 28, 1983 in Ernakulam, Kerala, India) is an Indian-born Australian badminton player.[1] At the age of nine, Luiz moved with her family to Melbourne, Australia, where she obtained a dual citizenship. She started playing badminton three years later, and went on to represent Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, coincidentally in her home city.[2] She defeated South Africa's Michelle Edwards and Fiji's Karyn Whiteside in the preliminary rounds, before losing out her third match to New Zealand's Rachel Hindley, with a score of 7–21 and 12–21.[3][4]

Luiz qualified for the women's doubles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing fifteenth and receiving a continental spot for Oceania from the Badminton World Federation's ranking list. Luiz and her partner Eugenia Tanaka lost the preliminary round match to Japanese pair Miyuki Maeda and Satoko Suetsuna, with a score of 4–21 and 8–21.[5][6]

Shortly after the Olympics, Luiz was selected as the member of the Badminton World Federation's Athletes Commission, along with five other athletes, including Guatemala's Pedro Yang.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Tania Luiz". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Tania Luiz: Qualified hand in inexperienced Badminton duo". ABC News Australia. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Biography – Tania Luiz". Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's doubles a rare bright spot". The Age. 24 March 2006. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Women's Doubles Round of 16". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  6. ↑ "Luiz and Tanaka bow out in badminton". ABC News Australia. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  7. ↑ "Yong Dae voted into BWF Athletes Commission". Chinese Olympic Committee. 1 November 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  8. ↑ "Tania Luiz, joins BWF Athletes Commission". Badminton Oceania (Sporting Pulse). 25 August 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

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