Tyna Barinaga (later Tony Barinaga; born 1946) is a former American

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

player who won national and international titles from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. In 1964 Barinaga and fellow

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resident Caroline Jensen (Hein) became the first all-teenage team to capture the women's doubles title at the U.S. Open Championships. They won the Canadian Open women's doubles the following year. Barinaga shared the mixed doubles title at U.S. Open in 1966, and won both singles and doubles at the same tournament in 1968. Her last full season of competition, 1969–1970, was probably her best. After claiming a number of titles in Great Britain, she won all three events (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) at the U.S Championships and women's singles at the Canadian Open. Barinaga was a member of three U.S.

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teams (1963, 1966,1969), the first of which retained the women's world team championship. She was inducted into the U.S. Badminton Hall of Fame (Walk of Fame) in 2003.http://www.usabadminton.org/wof/Walk_of_Fame_Inductees_and_Profiles.html

Achievements

''Mixed doubles''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barinaga, Tyna American female badminton players 1946 births Living people 21st-century American women