Monica Puig Marchán or famously known as Monica Puig is a Puerto Rican professional tennis player who has won a gold medal at the Olympics games with her nation. She is the first Puerto Rican athlete to win the gold medal at Olympics for Puerto Rico.
Besides being an Olympian level champion, she is also the Caribbean as well as Central American champion and won the silver medal in the Pan America games.
As of 2019, Monica Puig's net worth is estimated to be above $1.5 million. Furthermore, her career prize money,$ 2,491,837 with YTD prize money is around $ 209,931 which she earns over the course of her playing career.
Her annual earning this year is reported to be $252,647. With a tremendous earning and net worth, she is living a lavish lifestyle.
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Neither married nor single, Monica Puig is currently dating her boyfriend, Derek Dietrich. Her man, Dietrich is an American professional baseball second baseman for the Cincinnati Reds organization.
Monica Puig, currently 25, has a height of 5 feet 7 inches and weighs around 64 kg. Nothing is known about his personal and private apart from the fact that she loves to spend most of her free time with her family.
The Puerto Rican is currently residing in Miami, Florida, US.
Monica Puig was born to Puerto Rican mother, Astrid Marchan and Cuban American father, Jose Puig on 27 September 1993 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She holds a Puerto Rican nationality.
She also has an elder brother, Ricardo Puig. She attended Lauri Springs and later on Indiana University East for her education.
She started playing tennis when she was encouraged by her mother to play and made her junior career debut in 2007.
Puig's breakout moment came in 2009 and later on turned professional in 2010 and quickly won the gold at the Caribbean and Central American in 2010 for Puerto Rico and due to impressive as well as outstanding performances earned the second rank at the Youth Olympics in 2010.
She won the silver medal at Pan American Games in 2011. She was a finalist at 2016 Apia International Sydney after defeating some star players like Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, and Samantha Stosur. However, she faced a loss in the straight round with Svetlana Kuznetsova.
She made her Olympic debut at the 2016 Rio Olympics and had her crowning achievement when she won gold in the women’s singles competition.
Puig made history by becoming the first Puerto Rican to win the gold at the Olympics for Puerto Rico as also become the first Latin American to receive a gold medal in the women’s singles titles.
In addition, she has also won WTA as well as ITF singles titles twice and six times respectively in her tennis career. She recently defeated 2nd seeded Caroline Wozniacki in the Miami Open in 2018.
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