Rio de Janeiro Olympics gold medallist Monica Puig introduced her retirement from skilled tennis at age 28 through a put up on social media Monday.
Puig grew to become the primary athlete to win gold for Puerto Rico in any sport at an Olympics together with her ladies’s singles triumph in 2016. She additionally was the primary lady representing her nation to earn an Olympic medal of any shade.
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“After a tricky 3 yr battle with accidents and 4 surgical procedures, my physique had sufficient,” Puig wrote on Monday.
“This resolution is not a straightforward one as a result of I’d’ve beloved to retire alone phrases, however generally life has different plans and now we have to open new doorways that result in thrilling potentialities.” Puig mentioned she is going to work for ESPN and shall be “exploring consulting roles for younger, up and coming tennis gamers, in addition to with applications and academies.” She leaves the tennis tour with a profession report of 303-215, one WTA singles title along with her Summer time Video games victory, a career-best rating of No. 27 and greater than USD 3.5 million in prize cash.
Puig stopped taking part in within the first set of what can be her remaining event match final month in France towards Fiona Ferro. She performed in a single different official match this season, on the Madrid Open, dropping to Australian Open runner-up Danielle Collins.
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In any other case, Puig had not competed since a first-round loss on the French Open in October 2020.
She introduced in June 2021 that she would want to take a seat out the Tokyo Olympics and the remainder of final season after having surgical procedure on her proper shoulder. That was her second operation to restore her rotator cuff and biceps tendon.
Puig additionally had surgical procedure on her proper elbow in December 2019.
On the Rio Olympics, Puig was unseeded and ranked thirty fourth, however she capped a run of unusual outcomes by beating three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 within the remaining. That adopted wins towards two different main champions, Petra Kvitova and Garbiñe Muguruza. Puig was the primary unseeded lady to win the singles title since tennis returned to the Olympics in 1988.
Puig’s finest exhibiting at a Grand Slam event was attending to the fourth spherical of Wimbledon as a teen in 2013.
“Over the previous 28 years of my life, tennis has been my fixed. It has given me among the most thrilling and memorable experiences I might have ever requested for,” Puig wrote Monday. “However, generally, good issues come to an finish.”
