Holguín athlete Taymara Oropesa, the best Cuban badminton player today, will face from Wednesday a demanding challenge in the Pan American Badminton Championship, which will be held in Guatemala until the 13th.
In the tournament, which will finalize the Olympic qualifying process in the Americas, Oropesa will seek to score points for the world ranking and keep her chances of qualifying for the Paris-2024 event.
Taymara will start her participation in the round of 32, no less than against the local Nikte Alejandra Sotomayor, whom she defeated last March, for the first place in the XXII Giraldilla International Tournament of Havana, in three partial fights.
At that time, the Holguin native, bronze medalist at the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile, and winner of the silver medal at the Central Caribbean Games in San Salvador, both last year, won 1,700 units to her ranking.
Taymara is ranked 15th in the tournament’s entry list, whose main players are the American Beiwen Zhang, world number 10, and the Canadian Michelle Li (17) and the Brazilian Juliana Viana Vieira (48).
The competition in Guatemalan courts will award seven thousand points for the world ranking to those who win in each of the five events, and those who advance one round must accumulate more than one thousand units.
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