Mariany Nonaka | |
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Full name | Mariany Mayumi Nonaka |
Nationality | Brazilian |
Born | São Paulo, Brazil | 22 February 1988
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) |
Playing style | Right-handed, shakehand [1] |
Highest ranking | 258 (April 2009) [2] |
Current ranking | 406 (March 2012) [2] |
Club | Acrepa Sao Bernardo [1] |
Mariany Mayumi Nonaka (born 22 February 1988) [3] is a Brazilian table tennis player. [4] As of March 2012, Nonaka is ranked no. 406 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). [2] She is a member of Acrepa Sao Bernardo Sports Club, and is coached and trained by Mauricio Kobayashi. [5] Nonaka is also right-handed, and uses the attacking, shakehand grip. [1]
Nonaka made her official debut, as a 16-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed only in the women's doubles. Playing with her partner Lígia Silva, Nonaka received a bye for the first round, before losing out to the Czech duo, Renáta Štrbíková and Alena Vachovcová, with a set score of 2–4. [6] [7]
Four years after competing in her first Olympics, Nonaka qualified for her second Brazilian team, as a 20-year-old and a lone female table tennis player, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by receiving a spot from the Latin American Qualification Tournament in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. [8] She lost the preliminary round match of the women's singles to Lithuania's Rūta Paškauskienė, with a unanimous set score of 0–4. [9] [10]