Yadira Silva

Yadira Silva
Yadira Silva during the 2013 Latin American Table Tennis Cup
Full name	Yadira Silva Llorente
Nationality	Mexican
Residence	Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Born	(1985-12-24) December 24, 1985 (age 31) Unión de Reyes, Matanzas, Cuba
Playing style	Offensive
Equipment(s)	Blade: Butterfly Timo Boll Spirit Forehand Rubber: Butterfly Tenergy 64 Backhand Rubber: Butterfly Tenergy 64
Highest ranking	211
Height	159 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)

Yadira Silva Llorente (born 24 December 1985) is a Cuban-born Mexican table tennis player who participated in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.

After winning several medals in the 2002 Cuban National Games and 2003 Junior Latin American Championships playing as a Cuban, Silva married Mexican coach Roberto Madrigal Hernández and established herself in Mexico. With her new citizenship, she represented Mexico in the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament, qualifying for the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she was knocked out in the qualification round. She won the 2010 Latin American Championship and the silver medal in the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games and 2011 Latin American Cup.

Silva played in the 2008, 2010 and 2012 World Team Championships, helping Mexico to reach the 56th, 59th and 66th place. In the 2011 World Championships she played the singles, women's and mixed doubles without reaching the main draw. In 2010 she won the Tabasco's State Sports Award. In the 2012 Summer Olympics she failed to progress beyond the qualification round.

Silva was born on 24 December 1985 in Unión de Reyes, Matanzas, Cuba. She is 159 cm (5 ft 3 in) tall and weighs 56 kilograms (123 lb). Silva started in table tennis at the age of 10 when her brother Maykel Silva Lorente took her to a table tennis club in Matanzas, Cuba. The next year she started in the Sporting Initial School and by the age of 13, she joined the Cuban High Performance Center and won the Cancun Open in 2002 at the age of 16. After arriving in Mexico in 2004, she worked as a trainer and her students qualified for the National Games in 2006.