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Key facts
- Native name
- Mónica Puig Marchán
- Country sports
- Puerto Rico
- Residence
- Atlanta , Georgia, US
- Born
- ( 1993-09-27 ) September 27, 1993 (age 32) , San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Height
- 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Plays
- Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
- Coach
- Dorian Descloix
- Prize money
- $3,570,823
- Career record
- 303–215
- Highest ranking
- No. 27 (September 26, 2016)
- Australian open
- 3R ( 2016 )
- French open
- 3R ( 2013 , 2016 , 2019 )
- Wimbledon
- 4R ( 2013 )
- Us open
- 2R ( 2014 , 2018 )
- Olympic games
- W ( 2016 )
- Fed cup
- 27–12
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Puig
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Juan
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – women's singles
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Puerto Rico Billie Jean King Cup team
- Country for sport
- Puerto Rico
- Mass
- 64
- Image
- Puig RG16 (3) (26794913164).jpg
- Height
- 170
- Residence
- Miami
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- handedness
- right-handedness
- date of birth
- 1993-09-27
- singles record
- 303–215
- doubles record
- 18–36
- Commons category
- Mónica Puig
- ethnic group
- Puerto Ricans
- ranking
- 2
- prize money
- 3570823
- start of work period
- 2010-09-00
- social media followers
- 193602
- birth name
- Mónica Puig Marchán
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Encyclopedic overview
Monica Puig Marchán (born September 27, 1993) is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player. She is the first Puerto Rican in history to win a gold medal at the Olympics while representing Puerto Rico, having done so in 2016 at the women's singles event. She is also a Central American and Caribbean champion and Pan American silver medalist.
Having turned professional in 2010, Puig won two WTA Tour singles titles and six ITF singles titles. On 26 September 2016, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 27. On May 25, 2015, she peaked at No. 210 in the doubles rankings. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Puig won the gold medal, the ninth overall medal at the Games for Puerto Rico. With the feat, she also became the first Latin American champion in the women's singles discipline and is the only unseeded female player to win the gold medal since the reintroduction of tennis in 1988.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mónica Puig” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.