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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
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at the
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while representing Puerto Rico, having done so in
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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 singles titles and six ITF singles titles. On 26 September 2016, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 27. On 25 May 2015, she peaked at No. 210 in the doubles rankings. She retired as a professional tennis player on 13 June 2022. At the
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, 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. During her career, Puig has defeated top-ten players Sara Errani, Caroline Garcia, Angelique Kerber,
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, Aryna Sabalenka, and Caroline Wozniacki.


Early life

Monica Puig Marchán was born to a Cuban American father, José Puig, and a Puerto Rican mother, Astrid Marchán. Puig stated her paternal grandparents are
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Tennis career


Junior career

In 2007, she entered her first tournament at the Prince Cup, but withdrew from the qualifying draw. In 2008, she started the season with a surprise run to the final of the Costa Rica Bowl (Grade 3) as a qualifier losing in straight sets to Eugenie Bouchard. She continued her good form, winning two out of three tournaments. Puig continued good results in small Grade-3 and-4 tournaments. In her first Grade-1 tournament in Lexington, she defeated Charlotte Calhoun before going out to
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. She continued to participate in bigger tournaments, though not with as much success as she had in the smaller ones. Puig had her breakthrough season in 2009; she started doing much better in the bigger tournaments. She reached her first Grade-1 final in
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, losing to Mai Grage of Denmark. She continued playing consistently, highlights of the latter months of the year included a semifinal appearance at a Grade-B1 tournament in Tulsa, losing to Bouchard in three sets. In her next tournament, she won the doubles title. In 2010, she continued her success at a higher level. Puig started the year reaching the final of the 32nd International Casablanca Junior Cup (Grade A), falling easily to Sachie Ishizu of Japan. She then reached another final a week later at the Coffee Bowl (Grade 1) losing to An-Sophie Mestach of Belgium in straights. Puig followed that up with a semifinal appearance at a Grade-1 tournament in
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. Consistent results followed, before a huge Grade-A title at the 27th Copa Gerdau, defeating
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in the final. After a semifinal appearance at another Grade-A calibre tournament, she fell in the quarterfinals of the
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. After that, she failed to advance past the quarterfinals of any of her tournaments until the US Open, where she lost to
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. Puig finished the season with a flourish, falling in the quarterfinals of Osaka (Grade A), the final of Mérida (Grade 1) and the semis of Key Biscayne (Grade A), both to Lauren Davis. In July, Puig won the gold medal in women's singles at the Central American and Caribbean Games. At the Youth Olympics in Singapore, she was the second seed in the singles event but lost in the first round to Zheng Saisai of China, in straight sets.


2011: Junior Grand Slam finals in Melbourne and Roland Garros

In January, Puig won the Loy Yang Traralgon International defeating
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of Russia. Puig was also in the juniors event of the
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. She qualified for the final but lost to Belgian An-Sophie Mestach. On February 20, Puig won the singles title in
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defeating Lenka Wienerová, in straight sets. Puig received a wildcard into the qualifying draw of the
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. She defeated Anne Keothavong in the first round but was then knocked out by Sorana Cîrstea, in three sets. In the juniors event of the
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, she also qualified for the final but lost to Tunisian Ons Jabeur. Puig won the silver medal at the Pan American Games after defeating Christina McHale of the United States to advance to the gold medal round. She lost to Irina Falconi of the United States in the final.


2012: Reaching the top 200

In January 2012, Puig entered the Auckland Open, ranked 213 in the world, and won the first and second round of qualifying matches, but lost in the last round to the No. 145 in the world,
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. On 16 January, she entered the
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qualifying draw ranked 209, and lost in the second round to Kirsten Flipkens. At the Andrézieux-Bouthéon $25k tournament, she won two qualifying matches but lost in the first round to
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of Poland. In the following month, Puig played on the qualifying draw of two WTA Tour events, in Bogotá and Monterrey, without being able to get past the first round of the main draw. She received a wildcard to play in the Indian Wells Masters qualifying draw, but, in the second round, lost to world No. 66, Eleni Daniilidou. Her breakthrough came when she reached the final of the Poza Rica $25k tournament unseeded. The last two matches prior to the final included wins against tournament seeds No. 4 and 1, although she lost to second seed Yaroslava Shvedova. The second breakthrough of 2012 occurred when she won the first $50k tournament of her career at Joué-lès-Tours, France. Puig opened the first round by eliminating the top-seed and world ranked 87, Alexandra Panova. In the semifinals, she defeated An-Sophie Mestach, the same opponent to whom she lost in the 2011 Australian Open junior final.


2013: Entering the top 100

Puig began her season at the
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. After coming through qualifying, she reached the second round where she lost to fourth seed Angelique Kerber. At the
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, Puig was defeated in the first round of qualifying by Wang Qiang. In Paris at the WTA indoor event, Puig lost in the final round of qualifying to Stefanie Vögele. Seeded eighth at the $100k
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, Puig reached the semifinal where she was defeated by top seed and eventual champion, Lauren Davis.


2014–15: First WTA title, high ranking of No. 41

In May, she played and won her first WTA final in
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, defeating Sílvia Soler Espinosa. This success took her to her highest WTA ranking 41st. In October 2014, Puig won first place at the WTA Rising Stars Invitational in Singapore. Puig defeated Zheng Saisai in two sets. At the end of the year, she was world No. 59. In this same year, she also won the gold medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico representing Puerto Rico.


2016: Breakthrough and Olympic gold medal

Puig started the season strongly in
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. As a qualifier, she went on to defeat Magdaléna Rybáriková,
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, Samantha Stosur, and Belinda Bencic before losing in her second WTA final to
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. At the
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, she reached the third round, defeating Magda Linette and Kristýna Plíšková before losing to the fourth seed Agnieszka Radwańska. She repeated her Australian Open success to reach the third round at the
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, defeating
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and
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, before losing to the 15th seed
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. In the Eastbourne International, Puig progressed as far as to the semifinals after beating Kristina Mladenovic. She progressed on
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and faced home player Johanna Konta in the first round, in which Puig lost in two sets. At the Rio Summer Olympics, Puig won the women's singles gold medal by defeating Polona Hercog, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova,
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, Laura Siegemund, Petra Kvitová, and finally Angelique Kerber. Puig became the second unseeded player to win a medal at the Olympics after
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had won bronze in Athens and the first athlete representing Puerto Rico to win a gold medal in any sport. In Puerto Rico's Olympic history, Puig is the ninth sportsperson and the first woman to win an Olympic medal. She is the first Latin American representative to win the gold medal in singles and the second to win a medal, after
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won silver at the
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. In November, Puig was presented the award for Best Female Athlete in Rio 2016 presented by the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC). She was not originally seeded at the US Open, but after a withdrawal of Sloane Stephens, Puig became the 32nd seed. She lost in the first round to Zheng Saisai, and also in doubles with
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to Nicole Gibbs and
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, and concluded the season with a career best year-end ranking of 32.


2017: Loss of form

Puig was unable to replicate her success throughout 2017 and fell out of the top 50 in June. By losing in three sets to Mirjana Lučić-Baroni in the first round of the US Open, she concluded her 2017 season without advancing past the second round of any Grand Slam or Premier Mandatory tournament. However, she did end the season on a high note by reaching her fourth career WTA Tour final at the Luxembourg Open.


2018

Puig started the season at the Auckland Open where she lost in the first round to second seed and eventual champion, Julia Görges. At the
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, she was defeated in the final round of qualifying by Kristie Ahn. Puig beat Sam Stosur in the first round of the
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; she lost in the second round to Kaia Kanepi. In February, Puig competed at the Mexican Open and was defeated in the second round by qualifier
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. At the
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, she lost in round two to 21st seed Anastasija Sevastova. Puig had a great run at the Miami Open as she stunned second seed Caroline Wozniacki in the second round. However, she was defeated in the fourth round by American qualifier Danielle Collins. Seeded fifth at the Monterrey Open, Puig reached the quarterfinals where she lost to 2012 champion Tímea Babos. Puig began her clay-court season in May at the
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. She was defeated in the second round by tenth seed, two-time champion, and eventual champion Petra Kvitová. Puig retired from her qualifying match in Rome at the
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to Donna Vekić due to a right hip strain. As a result of that injury, she withdrew from the Internationaux de Strasbourg and the
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. Puig returned to action in July at the Wimbledon Championships where she lost in the first round to 13th seed and eventual semifinalist, Julia Görges.


2019

Puig started her 2019 season at the Auckland Open where she lost in the second round to third seed Hsieh Su-wei. In
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, she was defeated in the final round of qualifying by Aliaksandra Sasnovich. However, due to Naomi Osaka withdrawing from the tournament, she entered the main draw as a lucky loser. She lost in the first round to Anett Kontaveit. Ranked 54 at the
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, she was eliminated in the first round by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Playing for Puerto Rico in the Fed Cup tie against Colombia, Puig won her match over
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. Colombia ended up winning the tie over Puerto Rico 2–1. In
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, she upset sixth seed Maria Sakkari in the first round. She then retired during her second-round match against Wang Yafan due to food poisoning. At the
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, she was beaten in the second round by 21st seed Anett Kontaveit. At the Miami Open, she lost in the first round to Chinese wildcard Wang Xiyu. Puig kicked off her clay-court season at the Charleston Open.


2020

Puig missed the Auckland Open and the
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due to her undergoing right elbow surgery. She returned to the tour in August at the
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and lost in the first round of qualifying to American wildcard
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. At the US Open, she was defeated in the first round by Margarita Gasparyan. Competing at the
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, Puig lost her first-round match to 2012 finalist and qualifier, Sara Errani. Puig ended the year ranked 105.


2022: Comeback & retirement

She made a comeback after two years at the
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where she lost to
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in the first round, in straight sets. Puig retired in June 2022 due to the cumulative effects of repeated injuries she sustained throughout her career.


Coaching

Puig has had multiple coaches in her career, including Alain De Vos (2008–2014), Ricardo Sánchez (2014–2015), Juan Todero (2015–2018),
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and Othmane Garma (2019), Philippe DeHaes, and Diego Veronelli. In August 2020, she announced the return of Juan Todero as her coach. At the end of 2021 she announced
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will be her new coach


World TeamTennis

Puig has played one season of World TeamTennis making her debut in 2019 with the Vegas Rollers for their inaugural season. It had been announced that Puig wanted to return to the Vegas Rollers during the 2020 WTT season.


Personal life

Puig became engaged to Nathan Rakitt in 2021., and they got married on November 11, 2022.


Career statistics


Grand Slam tournament performance timeline


Singles

Notes * Grand Slam performances source


Olympic final


Singles: 1 (gold medal)


See also

* List of Puerto Ricans *
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* Puerto Rico at the Olympics * History of women in Puerto Rico


Notes


References


External links

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Rio 2016 Olympic Tennis Event: Women's Singles Bracket

Monica Puig: Profile at Rio Olympics Website
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