MONICA PUIG WON Puerto Rico’s first ever Olympic gold medal when she defeated Germany’s Angelique Kerber 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 in the women’s tennis singles final.
The 22-year-old Florida-based Puig defied her ranking of 34 to get the better of world number two and Australian Open champion Kerber.
Puig is the first woman from the Caribbean island to win a medal of any sort.
Before her golden breakthrough, Puerto Rico had won just eight Olympic medals, two silver and six bronze. Six of that total had come in boxing.
Victory for Puig came in a dramatic seventh game of the final set when she saved six break points before taking gold on a fourth match point when a Kerber forehand sailed wide.
© AFP 2016
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Brilliant
Come from nowhere! She’s only 22 and ranked 34 ffs. Not 33 and 334!! The womens game is poor. Unless Serena is on form, the rest are much of a muchness and all capable of winning on their day. So yes. She’s obviously juicing Clowns!!!
Juiced.
Yeah probably, but sure so are the rest of them. Too much money involved for it to be clean.
Why her in particular?
Well she’s come from nowhere to beat one of the top players over the past few years
So no surprises allowed in sport now without drug accusations!?!?
Why bother?
She has that much gear in her she’ll have to watch it on YouTube in the morning to see what happened.