Monica Puig Marchán (born September 27, 1993) is a Puerto Rican professional tennis player and Olympic gold medalist. She has won one singles title on the WTA tour and six singles titles on the ITF circuit. Puig reached her highest singles ranking of world number 27 on September 26, 2016, and her highest doubles ranking of world number 210 on May 25, 2015. In May 2014, she won her first WTA tour title at the Internationaux de Strasbourg.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Puig became the first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal representing Puerto Rico and the ninth overall medalist for the delegation. She was the first Latin American player to win the women's singles tournament, defeating the world number two, Angelique Kerber, in the final. Puig is the only unseeded female player to win gold since tennis was reintroduced to the Olympics in 1988.
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