Contrary to what you might think, Maria Emilia Quintana never had a formal approach with him professional field tennissport of the world famous Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Serena Williams, but rather it was the beach tennis or beach tennis the one that caught his interest. remember i had 14 years when at the initiative of his mother he went to a practice and since then he could never leave it again.
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Although he had a short stint in basketball The sand surface sport began to motivate a guarded competition instinct that even María Emilia was unaware of. Today, four years later, the young woman from Guayaquil not only has become the country’s number 1 racket in this discipline, but in his wake he reaps South American and Pan American titles and four gold medals, last weekend, in the Beach Tennis World Championship, organized by the Brazilian Federation, considered the mother of all organizations in this sport.
In the tournament played until last weekend in Fortaleza, Brazil, and which was also attended by a complete Ecuadorian delegation made up of 26 athletes, Quintana was left with the Women’s Pro, Under-18, Under-18 Mundialito and Women’s Open titles, plus another silver medal.
“It is a sport that has grown a lot. In Brazil, we all went members of the River Beach Club of Samborondón and I’m glad to be part of that growth,” the athlete says excitedly, who despite her 18 years He competes with tennis players with a long history, who have sometimes even been twice his age.
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If the right hand could define his career in one word, he would sum it up in constancy. Since he started playing beach tennis, he hasn’t stopped. He learned to combine his studies college with sports career and vice versa. It was one of the teachings that his current coach, Rafael Parra, always left him.
“I couldn’t be good at sports and bad at school or vice versa. These are efforts that must be made… strike a balance between the two if you want to continue, otherwise it is not sustainable in the long run because you will fail in either of the two”, says the athlete, who hopes to start studying Veterinary Medicine in a few more months.
Among his most important titles, Quintana rescues that of the Pan American that won in 2019 in the 16-year-old category, even when he was 14, as well as the gold of the South American Beach Games on July 18, when gold was awarded in the women’s singles category and bronze in mixed doubles.
María Emilia highlights the latter in Santa Marta, Colombia, because she was able to show that is worldwide Well, in the quarterfinals, they beat the Brazilian Julia Nogueira, current #12 of the international ranking, whom he beat 6-3, 6-2. Already in the final she was able to defeat the Chilean Francisca Zuniga, who, on the other hand, had just beaten the first seed in the tournament.
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“Because of the result against Nogueira, there are those who may think that it was not such a tough battle; however, when considering the level that she has, versus mine – an athlete that she has almost zero local participation and where beach tennis is just taking off – it meant a lot. Julia comes from a country where every weekend there are competitions and they travel a lot to increase the level; I don’t as much as I would like”, she says proudly, while summarizing that she was able to fight equally against a world top.
Currently, Maria Emilia seeks to enter high performance to have a better international touch in competitions abroad. For now, already think about him Chile Pan American in September, and then in the Aruba Open, in Novemberworld-class tournament.
2023-08-11 03:04:10
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