The Most Famous
TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS from Puerto Rico
This page contains a list of the greatest Puerto Rican Table Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Table Tennis Players, 2 of which were born in Puerto Rico. This makes Puerto Rico the birth place of the 17th most number of Table Tennis Players behind Ukraine, and Taiwan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Puerto Rican Table Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Puerto Rican Table Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Adriana Díaz (b. 2000)
With an HPI of 36.20, Adriana Díaz is the most famous Puerto Rican Table Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Adriana Yamila Díaz González (born October 31, 2000) is a Puerto Rican table tennis player. In March 2022, she reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 9 by ITTF/WTT and became the all-time best ranked player from Latin America on women's side. Currently ranked No. 18, she is the third non-Asian player in the singles world ranking, and the second from the Americas, after Brazil's Bruna Takahashi. Díaz has a sister, Melanie and a cousin, Brian, who also play table tennis at professional level. Díaz is sponsored by Butterfly and Adidas.
2. Brian Afanador (b. 1997)
With an HPI of 24.08, Brian Afanador is the 2nd most famous Puerto Rican Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 9 different languages.
Brian O'Neill Afanador Pérez (born March 6, 1997) is a Puerto Rican table tennis player. On April 2, 2016, Afanador made history becoming the first Puerto Rican male table tennis player to qualify for the Olympic Games. On June 3, 2016, Afanador upset number 10 seeded and number 44 in the International Table Tennis Federation world ranking Bojan Tokič at the 2016 ITTF Slovenia Open in Otočec, Slovenia. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics where he defeated Suraju Saka 4–3 in the preliminary round before losing to Omar Assar 4–2 in the second round.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Puerto Rican table tennis players born between 1997 and 2000. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Puerto Rican table tennis players include Adriana Díaz, and Brian Afanador. As of April 2024, 1 new Puerto Rican table tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Adriana Díaz.
