Yadira Silva Llorente (born 24 December 1985) is a Cuban-born Mexican
table tennis
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player who participated in the
2008
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,
2012 Summer Olympics
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and
2016 Summer Olympics
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After winning several medals in the 2002 Cuban National Games and 2003 Junior Latin American Championships playing as a Cuban, Silva married
Mexican
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coach Roberto Madrigal Hernández and established herself in Mexico. With her new citizenship, she represented Mexico in the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament, qualifying for the
2008 Summer Olympics
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, where she was knocked out in the qualification round. She won the
2010 Latin American Championship and the silver medal in the
2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
The 21st Central American and Caribbean Games (Spanish: ''XXI Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe, Mayagüez 2010'') took place in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, from 18 July 2010 to 1 August 2010.
Bid
It was understood that Mayagüez was going to b ...
and
2011 Latin American Cup.
Silva played in the
2008
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,
2010
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and
2012 World Team Championships, helping Mexico to reach the 56th, 59th and 66th place. In the
2011 World Championships she played the singles, women's and mixed doubles without reaching the main draw. In 2010 she won the Tabasco's State Sports Award. In the
2012 Summer Olympics
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she failed to progress beyond the qualification round.
Early and personal life
Silva was born on 24 December 1985 in
a Habana del Este , Cuba.
She is tall and weighs .
Silva started in table tennis at the age of 10 when her brother Maikel Silva Llorente took her to a table tennis club in Union de Reyes, Matanzas under Zoilo Isasi supervision, who was her first coach . The next year she started in the Sporting Initial School and by the age of 13, she joined the Cuban High Performance Center and won the Cancun Open in 2002 at the age of 16.
After arriving in Mexico in 2004, she worked as a trainer and her students qualified for the National Games in 2006.
She obtained Mexican citizenship after marrying the Mexican Roberto Madrigal Hernández,
who is also her coach. She has two daughters, Yadira and Angelica Madrigal Silva,
and lives with her family in the Mexican city of
Villahermosa
Villahermosa ( , ; "Beautiful Village") is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Tabasco, and serves as the Municipalities of Mexico, municipal seat (governing county) of the state. Located in Southeast Mexico, Villahermosa is an ...
, Tabasco. Silva considers herself a housewife who still prepares
Cuban food, but has been taught
Mexican cuisine
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by her mother-in-law. Silva has confessed that leaving her daughters is the toughest thing for her, even when her mother Bárbara Llorente takes care of them. She considers her mom an example and appreciates the great deal of support she gives her.
Equipment
As of 2012, Silva's equipment is
Butterfly
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Timo Boll Spirit blade with Butterfly Tenergy 64 in both sides.
Career for Cuba
2002
She took part of the 2002 Cuban National Games (I Olimpiada Nacional) representing centrales as a 17 years old, winning four gold medals: in singles, women's doubles,
mixed doubles with
Pavel Oxamendi
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and team.
At that time she was said to be pretty, quiet and talented.
2003
In April, Silva took part of the Latin American Junior Championships held in
Santa Clara, Cuba
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, winning the silver medal in singles, the gold in women's doubles and the silver in mixed doubles, qualifying for that year World Junior Championships.
Playing for Cuba, she earned her spot for the
2003 Pan American Games
The 2003 Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from August 1 to 17, 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when Dominican Republic had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America.
Al ...
in
Santo Domingo
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Dominican Republic
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, by winning the gold medal at the special tournament.
Playing with Dayana Ferrer, they defeated Salvadorians
Wang De Ying and Morayle Álvarez 4–1 (4–11, 6–11, 10–12, 12–10, 4–11), then lost 4–0 to Americans Tawny Banh and Lily Yip in the quarter-final round.
In the singles event, and lost in the singles round of 16 to American
Gao Jun
Gao Jun (; born January 25, 1969) is a Chinese American table tennis player.
Biography
Gao Jun was born in Baoding, Hebei province of China. She now resides in Southern California. She is the owner of California Table Tennis club in Rosemead, ...
,
who later won the gold medal.
At the singles tournament of the
Latin American Championships, she fell in the semifinals,
and got 8th in doubles, playing with Dayana Ferrer.
Career for Mexico
In 2004 she arrived in Mexico but did not play until the Cancun Open the next year.
She also won two more local tournaments in Quintana Roo and Pachuca in 2006. But she was not able to play again until the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament when she received the clearance to represent her new country.
2008
At the
World Team Championships held in February in
Guangzhou
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,
China
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, Silva played with Laura Rosales, Sarah Rosas and Daniela Sánchez. They lost 3–0 to
Turkey
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in the first round, and Silva lost 3–0 to
Melek Hu
Melek Hu, born Hou Meiling () 27 January 1989, Shenyang) is a Chinese-born Turkish table tennis player. She has played for Fenerbahçe TT since 2007 and also played for An Gang in China. She has won European championships in the mixed (2010) ...
.
Silva scored a 3–0 victory over Erdenesuvd Byambaa to complete a 3–0 victory over
Mongolia
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.
Uzbekistan
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defeated Mexico 3–2, but Silva won her two matches to Aliye Ismailova (3–2) and Rimma Gufranova (3–1).
Silva defeated Lyanne Aponte, as her team defeated Puerto Rico 3–0. They finally beat
Latvia
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3–1 with Silva's two victories over Inta Laudupe (3–2) and Baiba Bogdasarova (3–0).
After the defeat 0–3 from
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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in the second stage for the 49–60 placement draw,
Mexico faced
Macau
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, who defeat them 0–3 with Silva's 3–2 victory over Ma Chao in and a 3–0 defeat from Wong Choi Chi. In the 53–56 placement they were defeated by Uzbekistan 3–0 with a Silva's 3–2 defeat from Aliye Ismailova.
They finally lost 2–3 to
Kazakhstan
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and finished in the 56th position in the World Championship; Silva lost 1–2 to
Marina Shumakova and won 3–1 to Yelena Shagarova.
Silva won the right to compete at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in the singles last chance from the
Latin American Qualification Tournament held in Santo Domingo in April. The two previous days she could only reach the second round, but in the third she defeated the Cuban
Glendys González to win her Olympic ticket. This made her the first ever Mexican representative in table tennis at the Summer Olympics, as well makes her known in her new country. Days later, she played the Latin American Championship's quarterfinal in the same venue and lost to Dominican
Lian Qian
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in the singles quarterfinals. In the team competition, she defeated
Ruaida Ezzeddine and
Luisana Pérez to help her national team to qualify to the quarterfinals. With Silva leading Mexico with two more victories, they beat Brazil in the quarterfinals only to fall to the favorites Dominican Republic in the semifinals, with Silva being defeated in her only match by Wu Xue, accounting a tied bronze medal.
Before the Olympics, Silva trained under the guidance of her
Chinese
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coach Yin Kin
at the PKU Gym in China's province
Sichuan
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during 45 days. Both she and her coach targeted to reach the round of 16 in the singles events. She was one of the 83 competitors
representing Mexico and the second table tennis player ever, after
Guillermo Muñoz
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participation at the
1996 Olympics
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.
The
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Andrea Bakula finished Silva's participation at the
singles event
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A singles event with a cocktail party-type a ...
of the Beijing Olympics with a 4–0 (12–10, 11–8, 11–2, 11–8) victory in just 26 minutes in the preliminary round. During the game, she tried to attack her right side, but her
lefty
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and more experienced opponent attacked her
backhand
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. Silva also confessed that she should have risked more.
In November she played the Central American Championship held in
San Salvador
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,
El Salvador
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, winning the silver medal in the singles event falling 4–2 (9–11, 8–11, 11–6, 10–11, 11–7, 3–11), to Salvadorian Morayle Álvarez,
silver in women's double partnering Aurora Pequeño, bronze in team competition also with Aurora, and gold in mixed doubles with Jude Okoh. She also won the Great CONCATEME Cup, played as the closing of the tournament by the best-ranked players,
after beating Salvadorian Estefania Ramirios 4–0 (11–8, 11–1, 11–8, 13–11) to win the cup and the $300 prize money.
She gave
birth
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in May 2009 and did not play until the 2010 Latin American Championships.
2010
At the 2010 Latin American Championship held in March in
Cancun,
Mexico
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, Silva won the singles gold medal after defeat
Brazil
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ian Lígia Silva, 4–1 (9–11, 11–9, 11–5, 10–12, 16–14)
and the silver in mixed doubles, playing with
Jude Okoh
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, after falling to the Brazilian duo of
Cazuo Matsumoto
Cazuo Matsumoto (born August 2, 1985 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics as part of the Brazilian team in the men's team event.
Career
Cazuo Matsumoto was ranked no.207 in the world in 200 ...
and
Ligia Silva. With the Latin American Championship, she secured a place in the World Cup.
Her trainer Lin Qing led her in a training camp in China before the Latin American Championship.
In the
2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships
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Medal summary Medal tab ...
held in May in
Moscow
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,
Russia
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, Silva played with Laura Rosales, Sarah Rosas and Nancy Sánchez;
Mexico lost 1–3 in the first round from the Dominican Republic, with Silva being defeated 1–3 by
Johenny Valdez
Johenny Valdez Reyes (born December 12, 1986) is a Dominican table tennis player. She won a gold medal in the women's team event at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. As of February 2013, Valdez is ranked no. 542 in the world b ...
. In the second, Mexico beat 3–1 to
Norway
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, and she lost 0–3 from Marthe Nilsen and defeating Marte Aasebo 3–2.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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lost 2–3 from Mexico, and Silva won her two matches 3–0 against Majda Prole and Emina Hadžiahmetović. Mexico beat Peru in the fourth round 3–0 with María Soto being defeated by Silva 3–0. Finally Mexico also beat Sri Lanka 3–0 with Srimali Wimalarathne falling to Silva. They finished in the third place in the K group of the Third Division. In the second stage Mexico started the 49–60 placement round with a 0–3 lost to Switzerland, with Silva's lost 3–0 to Rahel Aschwanden. Mexico then lost to Macao 1–3, with Silva's win 3–0 to Cheong Cheng I and 1–3 defeat by Ma Chao In. Finally Mexico placed 59, after defeating 3–1 to the Dominican Republic, Silva won 3–2 to
Eva Brito
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and 3–2 to Johenny Valdez.
After a training camp in China with other four member of the Mexico National Team, she participated in July at the
2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
The 21st Central American and Caribbean Games (Spanish: ''XXI Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe, Mayagüez 2010'') took place in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, from 18 July 2010 to 1 August 2010.
Bid
It was understood that Mayagüez was going to b ...
in
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. With Laura Rosales, she played only one game in the Women's Doubles, being defeated by the Venezuela pair of Cruz Aguilar and Luisana Perez 2–3. She helped with two victories against El Salvador at the quarterfinals in the Women's Team event, but her team los 2–3. She played with Jude Okoh the Mixed doubles being defeated in the second round by the Dominican couple Wu Xue and Lin Ju 0–3 (5–11, 10–12 y 9–11). reaching the final after defeating Venezuelan
Fabiola Ramos
Fabiola Ramos (born 15 September 1977 in Maracaibo) is a Venezuelan table tennis player who competed in her fifth consecutive Summer Olympics in 2012.
Career
Ramos won 4 gold medals at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games, in singles ...
4–0, but after losing the gold medal match 4–1 (9–11, 11–7, 11–7, 11–6 y 11–7) to the Dominican Republic representative
Wu Xue
Wu Xue (born 22 March 1980) is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents the Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater ...
.
In September, she took part in the
World Cup
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held in
Kuala Lumpur
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Malaysia
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, as the Latin American representative. She had to play in the Intercontinental Cup to receive a berth to the group stage. Besides her loss to Yang Fen from
Congo Brazzaville
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that prevent her to win the Cup and play the main draw,
she defeated
New Zealand
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er
Karen Li and Canadian
Zhang Mo.
In November Silva received the
Tabasco
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's State Sports Award ( es, Premio Estatal del Deporte) along with
chess
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player Leopoldo Aguirre Manzo and seven-year-old
golf
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Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
er Ariel González Arceo. She previously stated that she would felt proud of winning the award.
2011
For starting the year, she ranked 237 in the ITTF rankings.
She played in March the
Latin American Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in the Group stage she beat 4–1 both Brazilians Katia Kawai and Caroline Kumahara securing a spot in the quarterfinals. She beat Guatemalan Andrea Estrada 4–0 in the quarterfinals, and Brazilian Jessica Yamada (4–3) in the semifinal before being defeated by the Dominican Wu Xue 4–0 (11–9, 11–7, 11–3, 11–9) in the final game, receiving the silver medal.
In April she played the Spanish Open in
Almeria,
Spain
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and lost her three matches against South Korean Hyelin Lee 1–4, Danish
Mie Skov
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0–4, and Polish Antonina Szymanska 2–4 in the women's singles qualification groups.
In the Doubles she partnered Guatemalan Andrea Estrada, they lost to Sarah de Nutte and Tessy Gonderinger from Luxemburg.
In the
GAC Group World Table Tennis Championships played on 8–15 May in
Rotterdam
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Netherlands
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, she played in the
singles
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qualifications groups and lost to Chinese Taipei representative Liu Hsing-Yin 0–4 and later win 4–0 to
Macanese Cheong Cheng I, not qualifying to the main draw.
She have to play the consolation round, defeating Dominican Johenny Valdez 3–1 in the round of 64, Dutch Suzanne Dieker 3–1 in the round of 32, Venezuelan Ruaida Ezzeddine 3–1 in the round of 16, finally falling to Indian
Mamata Prabhu 0–3 in the quarterfinals. In the qualifying rounds of the
women's doubles Silva played with Laura Rosales, and they defeated 3–0 Latvians Diana Rusinova and Alexsandra Volosina. They then lost 0–3 to Moldovans Olga Bliznet and Alina Sandul, not qualifying for the Main Draw.
In the
Mixed doubles
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, she played with Marcos Madrid falling 4–1 (9–11, 11–6, 1–11, 10–12, 3–11) in their first match the seeded #2, defending champions and later gold medalists
Zhang Chao
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and
Cao Zhen
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.
At the Latin American Championship held in
Guadalajara
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, Mexico Silva fall in the quarterfinal round of the singles competition bye the Chilean Paulina Vega but win the bronze medal in the women's doubles playing with
Mercedes Madrid. In the team competition her team lost to Cuba in the quarterfinals, even when Silva defeated to the Cubans Leisy Jimenez and Glendys Gonzalez, but her partners lost the remaining matches.
At the
2011 Pan American Games
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Silva played in the
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qualifying to the quarterfinals after winning her stage group, beating the Brazilian Caroline Kumahara, Canadian Shirley Fu and Puerto Rican Daniely Ríos. She then lost to the Canadian
Zhang Mo in the quarterfinals. In the
team competition her team ended her participation in the group stage.
2012
At the
2012 Latin America Qualification Tournament held in March at
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil she earned the right to represent her country at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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. She qualified after defeating in the las qualifier the Salvadorian Karla Pérez, Puerto Rican Carelyn Cordero, Brazilian Caroline Kumahara and the rematch to the Dominican Qian Lian, who beat her in the first qualifier. After the qualification, she claimed to be proud for being playing for Mexico, because that was the country that let her make her dream of competing at the Olympics, come true. After the qualification Sergio Blanco, president of the Mexican Table Tennis Federation, praised her for helping in the development of the table tennis in Mexico. He said that Silva's qualification motivate players and help for the federation budget as an Olympic one. She later played the Latin American Championship in the same venue, winning 3–1 over Venezuelan Roxy Gonzalez in the round of 16, 3–0 to Colombian Johana Araque in the quarterfinals, and lost 3–2 to Brazilian Jessica Yamada in the semifinals to win a bronze medal, along with Paula Medina. In the team competition, Mexico defeated Venezuela 3–2 in the first round in the group stage, with Silva defeating 3–1 to Gremlis Arvelo and 3–0 to Roxy González; in the second round Argentina defeated 3–2 to Mexico, even when Silva won 3–0 to Agustina Iwasa and 3–1 to Ana Codina. In the second stage her team lost 3–0 to Dominican Republic in the quarterfinals.
Playing in late March in the
World Team Championships in
Dortmund
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, Germany she joined teammates Mercedes Madrid and Mónica Serrano, and coach Carlos Ballesteros. They started with a 3–1 victory over Mongolia in the first round, with Silva defeating Ankh-Erdene Altanbagana and Batkhishig Batsaikhan, both 3–0.
In the second round Mexico lost 2–3 to Ireland with two more victories scored by Silva over Ashley Givan and Amanda Mogey.
Iran defeated Mexico 3–2 in the third round with Mahjobeh Omrani and
Neda Shahsavari being defeated by Silva. In the fourth round they lost to Canada 3–1; Silva defeated Sara Yuen 3–2 but lost 0–3 to Chris Xu. Both Luiza Nazaryan and Hasmik Khachatryan representing Armenia lost 3–0 to Silva when they defeated Mexico 3–2, and they finished 5th in their group.
In the 61–72 placement bracket, Mexico faced
Macedonia, defeating them 3–1 with two more victories from Silva to Biljana Mladenova and Amelia Uce.
Silva then defeated Mabelyn Enriquez but lost to Andrea Estrada from Guatemala that defeated Mexico 3–1.
In the third round they defeated
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3–1 with Erandi Warusawithana and Ishara Madurangi being defeated 3–0 by Silva.
Mexico ended in the 66th position after losing 3–2 to Argentina, with Silva's two final victories over Maia Harima and Ana Codina.
In April she reached her best ever ranking, rising from 251 to 211 after her
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participation. At the 2012 ITTF Spanish Open held in Almeria, Spain, she lost to the Irish
Na Liu 4–0 and Japanese Misaki Morizono 4–1 in the singles qualifications groups and played in doubles with the Spaniard Marina Rodriguez and lost to Singaporeans
Li Jiawei
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and
Sun Beibei
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.
At the Latin American Cup 2012 held in May at
San José, Costa Rica
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, Silva won her group stage with victories over Jessica Yamada and Mabelyn Enriquez, but losing to Fabiola Ramos 1–4 (11–6, 11–5, 5–11, 11–6, 11–8) in the quarterfinals 4–1.
In June she played the ITTF World Tour Swedish Open, in
Helsingborg
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, Sweden; she lost 4–2 in her first match, against German Anja Schuh, ending her participation. She then moved to
Santos, Brazil to play the Brazil Open, she lost in the group stage of the singles tournament 4–0 in her first match, against Indian
Shamini Kumaresan
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, beat Brazilian Karina Hayama 4–1 and Lais Toma 4–0, moving to the main draw. There she lost 4–0 to the South Korean
Dang Ye-Seo in the round of 32. She played in the women's doubles with Colombian Paula Medina and defeated Lígia Silva and Jessica Yamada 3–2 (4–11, 5–11, 13–11, 11–9, 11–5), but lost to Japanese Yuki Nonaka and Polish Kinga Stefańska in the quarterfinals.
Ranked 233 in the world by the
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, she trained for three weeks in China with the National Coach, her husband Roberto Madrigal. She competed at the
Olympic table tennis tournament and lost to the 16-year-old
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in the first round 4–0 (11–9, 11–8, 11–3, 11–5). She later would recognize that she lost due to mistakes she made during the match.
References
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Mexican female table tennis players
Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic table tennis players for Mexico
1985 births
Living people
People from Villahermosa
Sportspeople from Matanzas Province
Cuban people of Galician descent
Cuban emigrants to Mexico
Naturalized citizens of Mexico
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico
Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Mexico
Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Mexico
Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
Table tennis players at the 2015 Pan American Games
Table tennis players at the 2019 Pan American Games
Table tennis players at the 2023 Pan American Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in table tennis
Pan American Games competitors for Mexico