Tania Ann Luiz (born 28 August 1983) is an Australian badminton player. At the age of nine, Luiz moved with her family to
Melbourne
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,
Australia
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. She started playing badminton three years later, and went on to represent
Australia
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at the
2006 Commonwealth Games
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, coincidentally in her home city. 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
Rachel Louise Hindley (born 30 December 1981) is a New Zealand badminton player. She won the women's singles gold at the Oceania Championships in 2006 and also women's doubles gold in 2008. She competed at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in t ...
, with a score of 7–21 and 12–21.
Luiz qualified for the
women's doubles at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, by placing fifteenth and receiving a continental spot for Oceania from the
Badminton World Federation
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's ranking list. Luiz and her partner
Eugenia Tanaka
Eugenia Tanaka (born 9 March 1987 in Kisaran, North Sumatra, Indonesia) is an Indonesian-born Australian badminton player. At the age of fourteen, Tanaka moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she started playing badminton. Tanaka is also a memb ...
lost the preliminary round match to Japanese pair
Miyuki Maeda
is a Japanese international badminton player from the Renesas badminton club and later affiliated with Saishunkan team. She participated at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, and also in three Asian Games editions from 2006 to 2014.
Career
Maed ...
and
Satoko Suetsuna
is a badminton player from Japan. Born in Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, she joined Renesas badminton club and later affiliated with Saishunkan team. She was a bronze medalist at the 2011 BWF World Championships with her partner Miyuki Maeda.
Career ...
, with a score of 4–21 and 8–21.
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
Pedro Alejandro Yang Ruiz (born October 9, 1976) is a retired male badminton player from Guatemala.
Biography
Yang played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing in the round of 32 to Jim Ronny Andersen of Norway.
He ...
.
Achievements
Oceania Championships
''Women's singles''
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
BWF International Challenge/Series (4 titles, 7 runners-up)
''Women's singles''
''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*
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1983 births
Living people
Indian emigrants to Australia
Australian female badminton players
Sportspeople from Kochi
Sportswomen from Kerala
Badminton players from Melbourne
Racket sportspeople from Kerala
Australian people of Malayali descent
Australian sportspeople of Indian descent
Olympic badminton players for Australia
Badminton players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Badminton players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia
Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
21st-century Australian sportswomen