Olympic tennis champion Monica Puig from Puerto Rico retires at the age of 28. The final conqueror of Angelique Kerber in the Olympic final in Rio de Janeiro 2016 announced this step on Instagram.
“After a tough three-year battle with injuries and four surgeries, my body had had enough,” Puig wrote. “The decision is not easy because I would have liked to have resigned of my own free will, but sometimes life has other plans.” She now wants to work as a TV expert at ESPN.
Puig celebrated the biggest success of her career at the Summer Games six years ago when she defeated Kerber 6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 1 in the gold final. In her career she won another title on the WTA Tour and was most recently ranked 1171 in the world.