Natália Mayara
Appearance
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Full name | Nátalia Mayara Azevedo da Costa |
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Country (sports) | ![]() |
Residence | São Paulo, Brazil |
Born | Recife, Brazil | 3 April 1994
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
Singles | |
Career titles | 29 |
Highest ranking | No. 13 (31 July 2017) |
Other tournaments | |
Paralympic Games | 2R (2016) |
Doubles | |
Career titles | 28 |
Highest ranking | No. 14 (2 July 2018) |
Other doubles tournaments | |
Paralympic Games | 1R (2016) |
Nátalia Mayara Azevedo da Costa (born 3 April 1994) is a former Brazilian wheelchair tennis player who competed in international level events. She is a double gold medalist at the 2015 Parapan American Games and competed at the Paralympic Games twice.[1]
Mayara lost her legs after she was hit by a bus that went onto a sidewalk. She began playing tennis and swimming aged eleven and she pursued a career in wheelchair tennis when she participated at a youth world championship as a junior tennis player in 2011.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Natalia Mayara - ITF Profile". International Tennis Federation. 16 October 2020.
- ^ "Paralympic Games: Tennis player Natalia Mayara Azevedo da Costa is pure inspiration (in Portuguese)". taofeminino. 24 August 2016.
- ^ "The story of overcoming tennis player Natalia Mayara (in Portuguese)". superesportes.com. 13 January 2014.
External links
[edit]Categories:
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Brazilian female tennis players
- Wheelchair tennis players
- Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Brazil
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Sportspeople from Recife
- Tennis players from São Paulo
- 21st-century Brazilian women
- 21st-century Brazilian sportspeople