1.How do you take the result of the top 16? I feel good, I feel happy. I think that being in the Top 16 is really important to me and to my career. I just want to continue practicing so I can be even better in the future. 2.What aspects of your play do you […]
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The new Olympic cycle has already started
Posted onThe new Olympic cycle has already started at the Águilas de la Montana table tennis club in Utuado, where the usual protagonists work towards the events that lead to Paris 2024. The protagonists referred to are the Olympians Adriana and Melanie Díaz, and Brian Afanador. Other members of the national teams also work with them, […]
How Do We Win?
Posted onIn Spanish with English subtitles. Please turn on subtitles under CC in the menu bar. For more information on DANIEL GONZALEZ please click here For more information on ADRIANA DIAZ please click here Stay “In The Loop” with Butterfly professional table tennis equipment, table tennis news, table tennis technology, tournament results, and We Are Butterfly […]
Butterfly Puerto Rico Open Teams
Posted on– Update as of May 2, 2021 : Announcement of New Dates – Dates – July 30-Aug 1, 2021 The Butterfly Puerto Rico Open Teams Tournament is a USATT sanctioned 4-star tournament that will be held at the San Juan Convention Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during the weekend of July 30th – August 1st , […]
Adriana Diaz, Puerto Rico’s “Athlete of the Decade”
Posted on(Courtesy of ITTF / by Kabir Nagpal) Winner of the women’s title at the Pan America Cup earlier this year, thus on route to next month’s Women’s World Cup, 19-year-old Adriana Diaz has been voted Puerto Rico’s “Marcó La Década”, the athlete of the decade. She appears proudly on the front cover of the Caribbean […]
Croatia Open: Kanak shines in the U21, Adriana made the Women’s QF, and an All-Butterfly Men’s Final
Posted on(By Steve Hopkins/Photo by ITTF) Zagreb was host this week to the Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge Croatia Open. As a part of the Challenge Series, the tournament did not feature Top 20 players, but Chuang Chih-Yuan (No. 25), Dristian Karlsson (No. 32), and Kanak Jha (No. 40) leading the way, there were 13 players in […]
Will Puerto Rico’s Adriana Diaz make table tennis ‘a thing’ in North America?
Posted onWill Puerto Rico’s Adriana Diaz make table tennis ‘a thing’ in North America? (By ESPN) Table tennis, or tenis de mesa, brings celebration, camaraderie and competition to the Diaz family. The sport is a familia affair. Four-year-old Adriana Diaz took to the blade on a table her father, Bladimir — a full-time table tennis coach — set up in […]
After PR Olympic Committee Can’t Fund Table Tennis Players’ Trip to Tournament, Daddy Yankee Steps In
Posted onAfter PR Olympic Committee Can’t Fund Table Tennis Players’ Trip to Tournament, Daddy Yankee Steps In (By Remezcla Estaff) Ever since he became the face of reggaeton, Puerto Rican legend Daddy Yankee has tried to use his platform to give back to his community. He supported relief efforts last year in the aftermath of Hurricane María, and […]
Sixth seed departs, Adriana Diaz causes early upset
Posted onSixth seed departs, Adriana Diaz causes early upset (by Ian Marshall, Editor/Photo: Jan Brychta) Winner earlier in the year at the Pan American Junior Championships and then more recently a clean sweep of titles at the Central American and Caribbean Games; Puerto Rico’s Adriana Diaz was the player to cause the biggest upset, as play […]
Full house for Adriana Diaz, Puerto Rico most successful of all in Barranquilla
Posted onFull house for Adriana Diaz, Puerto Rico most successful of all in Barranquilla (by Ian Marshall Editor) Women’s Doubles gold in partnership with elder sister Melanie, add Daniely Rios to the family duo and it was the top prize in the Women’s Team event, sandwiched in between Mixed Doubles success was the order of proceedings […]
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