Monica Puig Marchán (born on September 27, 1993) is a Puerto Rican proficient tennis player.

She is the primary Puerto Rican in history to win a gold decoration at the Olympics while addressing Puerto Rico, having done as such in 2016 at the ladies' singles occasion.

She is likewise a Central American and Caribbean champion and Pan American silver medalist. 

Having turned proficient in 2010, Puig has won two WTA singles titles and six ITF singles titles. On 26 September 2016, she contacted her vocation high singles positioning of world No. 27. On 25 May 2015, she topped at No. 210 in the duplicates rankings. 

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Puig won the gold award, the 10th generally speaking decoration at the Games for Puerto Rico.

With the accomplishment, she additionally turned into the first Latin American boss in quite a while's singles discipline and is the main unseeded female player to win the gold award since the renewed introduction of tennis in 1988.

During her profession, Puig has crushed top-ten players Sara Errani, Caroline Garcia, Angelique Kerber, Garbiñe Muguruza, Aryna Sabalenka, and Caroline Wozniacki. 

Early life 

Monica Puig Marchán was brought into the world to a Cuban American dad, José Puig, and a Puerto Rican mother, Astrid Marchán. Puig expressed her fatherly grandparents are Catalan. 

2020 

Puig missed the Auckland Open and the Australian Open because of her going through right elbow a medical procedure. 

She got back to the visit in August at the Cincinnati Open and lost in the first round of fitting the bill to American special case Katie Volynets. At the US Open, Puig was crushed in the first round by Margarita Gasparyan. 

Contending at the French Open, Puig lost her first-round match to 2012 finalist and qualifier Sara Errani. 

Puig didn't play additional competitions for the remainder of the period. She finished the year positioned 105. 

Training 

Puig has had numerous mentors in her profession, including Alain De Vos (2008–2014), Ricardo Sánchez (2014–2015), Juan Todero (2015–2018), Kamau Murray and Othmane Garma (2019), Philippe DeHaes, and Diego Veronelli. In August 2020, she reported the arrival of Juan Todero as her mentor. 

World TeamTennis 

Puig has played one period of World TeamTennis making her introduction in 2019 with the Vegas Rollers for their debut season. It had been reported that Puig needed to get back to the Vegas Rollers during the 2020 WTT season. 

Individual life 

As of mid 2020, Puig is dating Major League Baseball player Derek Dietrich. The two started their relationship in 2018. In August of 2019, Puig served a baseball to Dietrich from the hill before a game, in lieu of tossing out the main throw.