Mariany Nonaka
Full nameMariany Mayumi Nonaka
NationalityBrazilian
Born (1988-02-22) 22 February 1988
São Paulo, Brazil
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed, shakehand[1]
Highest ranking258 (April 2009)[2]
Current ranking406 (March 2012)[2]
ClubAcrepa 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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ITTF World Player Profile – Mariany Nonaka". ITTF. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "ITTF World Ranking – Mariany Nonaka". ITTF. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Mariany Nonaka". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  4. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mariany Nonaka". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  5. ↑ Marshall, Ian. "An Unaccustomed Style of Play Ends Brazilian Progress". ITTF. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  6. ↑ "Table Tennis: Women's Doubles". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  7. ↑ "Brasileiras são eliminadas no tênis de mesa" [Brazilians are eliminated from table tennis] (in Portuguese). UOL Esporte. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  8. ↑ Marshall, Ian (31 March 2008). "Lian Qian and Mariany Nonaka Set for Beijing Summer Olympics". ITTF. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  9. ↑ "Women's Singles Preliminary Round". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  10. ↑ "Mariany Nonaka perde e está fora no tênis de mesa" [Mariany Nonaka loses and is out of table tennis] (in Portuguese). Estadão.com.br. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
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