– 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 , […]
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Adriana Diaz, Puerto Rico’s “Athlete of the Decade”
(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 […]
Puerto Rico Claims Caribbean Crown
(by Steve Hopkins) Guyana was host to the 61st Caribbean Table Tennis Championship at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in Georgetown, Guyana. The event, which concluded on March 31, was a Pan American Games qualification event. The teams that competed included Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Kitts & Nevis, […]
Will Puerto Rico’s Adriana Diaz make table tennis ‘a thing’ in North America?
Will 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 […]
Driven by same values, Toyota and Adriana Diaz now steer the same route
(by Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor) Toyota and Adriana Diaz now steer the same route Destined for the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games, having earlier this year accelerated to success at the Latin American Qualification Tournament, Puerto Rico’s Adriana Diaz is once again in the fast lane, moving through the gears. Toyota of Puerto […]
United States clinches title, Canada and Puerto Rico secure places
(by Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor) Selecting Amy Wang, Crystal Wang and Grace Yang; on Thursday 22nd June, the United States won the Girls’ Team title at the 2017 Pan American Junior Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the final hurdle they overcome Brazil by three matches to two; Bruna Takahashi being the player to […]
Puerto Rican princess Adriana Diaz “Growin’ Up”
2007 to 2017, Puerto Rican princess Adriana Diaz “Growin’ Up” to a wise athlete in Sweden By Neha Aggarwal You might find Adriana Diaz humming to “Ooh, ooh, growin’ up”. Her favorite singer is Bruce Springsteen, and those are the lyrics from one of his famous songs Growin’ Up. Currently on duty in Orebro at […]
2016 US Open – Adriana Diaz vs. Yui Odono (Women’s QF)
2016 US Open – Adriana Diaz vs. Yui Odono (Women’s QF) 2016 US Open – Adriana Diaz vs. Yui Odono (Women’s QF) Video Courtesy of USATT
Continued Progress, Eyes on Promotion, the Day Belongs to Puerto Rico
Continued Progress, Eyes on Promotion, the Day Belongs to Puerto Rico Courtesy of ITTF More progress than any other national association in recent times; the fifth day of play, Thursday March 3rd in Division Two of both the Men’s and Women’s events at the Perfect 2016 World Team Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, belonged to the […]
Final of Three Days Earlier Repeated, Adriana Diaz Complete Double
Final of Three Days Earlier Repeated, Adriana Diaz Complete Double 2015 Croatia Junior & Cadet Open – ITTF Junior Circuit Courtesy of ITTF September 20, 2015 – Winner of the Junior Girls’ Singles title some three days earlier, Puerto Rico’s Adriana Diaz repeated the success to secure the Cadet Girls’ Singles crown in the concluding […]
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