Eugenia Tanaka (born 9 March 1987 in Kisaran,

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) is an Indonesian-born Australian badminton player. At the age of fourteen, Tanaka moved to

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, where she started playing badminton. Tanaka is also a member of Badminton Academy of Victoria, and is coached and trained by Ricky Yu. Tanaka qualified for the women's doubles at the

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, by placing fifteenth and receiving a continental spot for Oceania from the

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's ranking list. Tanaka and her partner

Tania Luiz Tania Ann Luiz (born 28 August 1983) is an Australian badminton player. At the age of nine, Luiz moved with her family to Melbourne, Australia. She started playing badminton three years later, and went on to represent Australia at the 2006 Commo ...

lost the preliminary round match to Japanese pair Miyuki Maeda and Satoko Suetsuna, with a score of 4–21 and 8–21.

Achievements

Oceania Championships

''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

BWF International Challenge/Series

''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' :

BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

References

External links

Profile – Australian Olympic Team
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tanaka, Eugenia 1987 births Australian female badminton players Australian people of Chinese descent Living people Olympic badminton players for Australia Badminton players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Indonesian emigrants to Australia Indonesian sportspeople of Chinese descent Sportspeople from North Sumatra Badminton players from Melbourne Sportswomen from Victoria (state) 21st-century Australian sportswomen