Tania Ann Luiz (born 28 August 1983) is an Australian badminton player. At the age of nine, Luiz moved with her family to

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. She started playing badminton three years later, and went on to represent

at the

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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 th ...

, with a score of 7–21 and 12–21. Luiz qualified for the women's doubles at the

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, by placing fifteenth and receiving a continental spot for Oceania from the

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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 membe ...

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
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Luiz, Tania 1983 births Living people Indian emigrants to Australia Australian female badminton players Sportspeople from Kochi Sportswomen from Kerala Sportspeople 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)