Monica Puig is closing in on her goal of raising $100,000 for relief efforts in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. ‘We need help and we need it now.’ ...

Puerto Rico's Monica Puig reacts after winning her women's singles final tennis match against Germany's Angelique Kerber at the Olympic Tennis Centre of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de ...

Monica Puig won the first gold medal for Puerto Rico at the Olympics in 2016 and Twitter — and Lin-Manuel Mirada — is celebrating with her.

Monica Puig won Puerto Rico’s first ever Olympic gold medal, beating Germany’s Angelique Kerber in women’s singles tennis. It was a milestone both for the U.S. territory, which has competed ...

Puerto Rico has been sending athletes to the Olympics since 1948, a stretch in which it amassed eight Olympic medals, none of them gold. Tennis star Monica Puig changed that on Saturday.

Representing Puerto Rico, Monica Puig won Olympic tennis gold in women's singles. It's the first gold medal ever for Puerto Rico, and people in her birthplace of San Juan noticed. She also heard ...

Monica Puig, an unheralded WTA player who's never been ranked higher than No. 33 in the world, rolled through the 64-player draw at the Olympics, defeating three Grand Slam champions along the way ...

The spectators told Monica Puig they believed she could win Puerto Rico's first Olympic gold medal in any sport, providing a soundtrack of "Si se puede!" — "Yes, we can!" — during the Rio de ...

To a soundtrack of “Si se puede!” from the stands, Monica Puig won Puerto Rico’s first gold medal in any sport in Olympic history, upsetting Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 in the ...