Luana Vicente


Luana Tamara de Oliveira Vicente is a Brazilian badminton player who won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.

Personal life

Vicente was born on 30 January 1994 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her younger sister Lohaynny Vicente is also an international badminton player. When Luana was six, her father, a drug dealer, was killed in a shootout with police. Following her father's death her mother moved the family from the west of the city to Chacrinha, a favela in the north of Rio. She now lives with her sister in Campinas, São Paulo, in a house funded by the Brazilian Badminton Federation.

Career

Both Vicente and her sister began playing badminton through a programme set up by a coach to teach the sport to kids in the community.
Vicente won a silver medal in the women's doubles at the 2015 Pan American Games held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, playing alongside her sister. The pair defeated Daigenis Saturria and Bermary Altagracia Polanco Muñoz of the Dominican Republic in the quarterfinals then Alexander Bruce and Phyllis Chan of Canada in the semifinals. In the final they lost to the American pairing of Eva Lee and Paula Lynn Obanana by a score of 14−21, 6−21, to finish as runners-up.
Vicente competed at the 2018 South American Games, winning the gold medal in the team event, and also the silver medals in the women's and mixed doubles event.

Achievements

Pan American Games

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2015Atos Markham Pan Am Centre,
Toronto, Canada		 Lohaynny Vicente Eva Lee
Paula Lynn Obanana		14–21, 6–21 Silver

Pan Am Championships

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2014Markham Pan Am Centre,
Markham, Canada		 Lohaynny Vicente Eva Lee
Paula Lynn Obanana		21–23, 14–21 Silver

South American Games

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2018Evo Morales Coliseum,
Cochabamba, Bolivia		 Fabiana Silva Daniela Macías
Dánica Nishimura		20–22, 10–21 Silver

Mixed doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2018Evo Morales Coliseum,
Cochabamba, Bolivia		 Artur Silva Pomoceno Daniel la Torre Regal
Dánica Nishimura		17–21, 11–21 Silver

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2015Carebaco International Lohaynny Vicente15–21, 18–21 Runner-up

Women's doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2018Santo Domingo Open Lohaynny Vicente Diana Corleto Soto
Nikte Alejandra Sotomayor		22–20, 21–17 Winner
2018International Mexicano Lohaynny Vicente Daniela Macías
Dánica Nishimura		23–25, 21–16, 21–11 Winner
2015Chile International Challenge Lohaynny Vicente Eva Lee
Paula Lynn Obanana		17–21, 16–21 Runner-up
2015Internacional Mexicano Lohaynny Vicente Cynthia González
Mariana Ugalde		21–8, 21–17 Winner
2015Chile International Lohaynny Vicente Paula B. Pereira
Fabiana Silva		21–18, 21–15 Winner
2015Peru International Series Lohaynny Vicente Paula B Pereira
Fabiana Silva		21–9, 21–17 Winner
2014Venezuela International Lohaynny Vicente Paula B. Pereira
Fabiana Silva		21–13, 21–5 Winner
2014Argentina International Lohaynny Vicente Paula B. Pereira
Fabiana Silva		18–21, 21–11, 21–15 Winner
2014Mercosul International Lohaynny Vicente Paula B. Pereira
Fabiana Silva		21–11, 21–13 Winner
2011Internacional Mexicano Lohaynny Vicente Cynthia González
Victoria Montero		21–10, 21–19 Winner
2011Miami International Lohaynny Vicente Dayanis Alvarez
Shannon Pohl		21–9, 21–16 Winner
2011Carebaco International Lohaynny Vicente Mariama Eastmond
Shari Watson		21–16, 21–11 Winner

Mixed doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2015Chile International Challenge Alex Yuwan Tjong Phillip Chew
Jamie Subandhi		14–21, 14–21 Runner-up
2015Internacional Mexicano Alex Yuwan Tjong David Obernosterer
Elisabeth Baldauf		17–21, 17–21 Runner-up