Garbine Muguruza Documentary Spains Explosive Tennis Star
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00:00 It was the French Open 2016. A young girl from Spain shocked everyone.
00:06 She lost the very first set of her tournament but didn't lose a single set after that.
00:12 She faced Svetlana Kuznetsova, Shelby Rogers and the GOAT Serena Williams in the final.
00:20 Welcome to the Rich Rabbit and today we will be talking about the Spanish tennis sensation Garbine Muguruza.
00:28 Muguruza was born in Caracas, Venezuela but moved to Spain at the age of 6.
00:34 Her father, Jose Antonio Muguruza is Spanish and mother Scarlett Blanco is Venezuelan.
00:40 And as a result, Garbine has dual citizenship of both Venezuela and Spain.
00:47 She started playing tennis at the age of 3 and underwent extensive coaching at the Bruguera Tennis Academy in Barcelona.
00:55 She idolized Serena Williams while growing up so it's no surprise that her game is just as explosive as the Americans.
01:04 After turning professional in 2012, Muguruza was given a wild card for her first WTA Tour main draw appearance at the Miami Open.
01:15 She was eliminated in the round of 16.
01:18 At the US Open, she qualified into the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.
01:24 However, she lost in three sets to Sara Irani in the first round.
01:29 At the 2013 Australian Open, she lost to Serena Williams in straight sets in the second round.
01:36 After Wimbledon, Muguruza underwent a right ankle surgery and missed the rest of the season.
01:43 She continued to train by hitting ground strokes sitting down.
01:47 She ended that year as the world number 63 in singles and number 153 in doubles.
01:54 At the Australian Open 2014, Muguruza defeated Caroline Wozniacki in three sets to reach the fourth round for the first time,
02:03 where she lost in straight sets to Agnieszka Radwanska.
02:08 Muguruza advanced to her first major quarterfinal at the French Open,
02:13 having handed the world number one Serena Williams her worst defeat in a major tournament,
02:19 but she was eliminated by Maria Sharapova later on.
02:23 At the Wimbledon Championships, Muguruza was seeded 27th but was upset by Coco Wandawe in the first round.
02:31 But patience pays off, and she won her first title that season, the doubles title of Stanford Classic.
02:39 However, things quickly turned sour at the US Open as she was upset by qualifier Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in the first round.
02:49 At the 2015 Australian Open, she progressed to the fourth round for the second consecutive year,
02:57 before falling to the eventual champion Serena Williams in three sets.
03:02 At the US Open, she recorded her first win at the tournament by defeating German Karina Witthoft in the first round.
03:10 However, she fell short to Johanna Konta in the following round in three sets.
03:15 The match lasted for three hours and 23 minutes, the longest women's singles match in that tournament's history.
03:23 Muguruza then travelled to Singapore for the 2015 WTA Finals, where she lost to eventual champion Rydwanska in the semis.
03:33 The Spaniard started her 2016 at Brisbane International when she had to retire in her first match of the tournament due to an injury.
03:42 At the Dubai Championships, Muguruza suffered another early loss as she fell to Alina Svitolina.
03:49 She kicked off the clay court season by participating in the Fed Cup against Italy.
03:55 She scored wins against Francesca Schiavone and Roberta Vinci to help Spain enter the World Group next year.
04:03 At the Madrid Open, she lost in the second round against Irina Kamilia Begu.
04:09 She then went on to reach her first WTA semifinals of the season in Rome,
04:15 after defeating Tamia Byszynski in quarterfinals but lost to Madison Keyes in straight sets.
04:22 The year was going pretty rough for her, but then the tables turned.
04:27 At the French Open, Muguruza turned her season around unexpectedly capturing her first major title.
04:34 She lost her first set against Anna Karolina Smidlova in a first-round match but won in three sets.
04:43 After that, she easily reached her second major final without losing a set in the next five matches, including wins over Big Names.
04:53 In the final, she faced world number one Serena Williams in a rematch of the previous year's Wimbledon final.
05:01 She won in straight sets for her maiden major title,
05:05 and with that title, she rose to a career high number two in the WTA rankings of June 2016.
05:13 She is also the first Spanish female player to win a major title since Sanchez Vicario in 1998.
05:20 Muguruza didn't have much success during the US Open Series.
05:25 At the US Open, she suffered another second-round loss, this time to Anastasia Savastova.
05:31 Muguruza suffered early losses at the start of the clay court season.
05:36 She lost in her opening matches in Stuttgart and Madrid to Annette Kontaviet and Tymia Byszynski respectively.
05:44 She bounced back in Rome by reaching the semis, before she had to retire against Switzerland in the first set due to a neck injury.
05:53 Muguruza entered the French Open as the defending champion,
05:58 where she reached the fourth round losing to Kristina Miladinovic in three sets.
06:03 At the 14th seed, Muguruza reached the Wimbledon fourth round.
06:08 She then faced the previous year's runner-up and world number one Angelique Kerber,
06:13 eventually beating her in three sets.
06:16 She then defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova and Magdalena Rybarikova both in straight sets,
06:23 to advance to her second Wimbledon final.
06:27 And there she defeated Venus Williams in straight sets, clinching her second major title.
06:33 In doing so, she became the first ever player to defeat both Williams sisters in major singles finals.
06:41 Muguruza entered the US Open as a contender for the number one WTA rankings.
06:47 She beat Rybarikova in a rematch of the Wimbledon semi-final to reach the fourth round of the US Open for the first time.
06:55 But then she lost to Petra Kvitova in straight sets.
06:59 Despite the loss, Muguruza rose to the number one ranking after reigning number one
07:05 Karolina Pliskova's loss to Vanderve in the quarterfinals.
07:09 She became the 24th woman to achieve the ranking.
07:13 Muguruza and Rafael Nadal made Spain the first country since the US 14 years ago
07:19 to simultaneously top both the ATP and the WTA rankings.
07:25 In Tokyo, she lost to Wozniacki in the semi-finals, winning only two games.
07:31 She then lost in the quarterfinals of the Wuhan Open to Jelena Ostapenko and retired in the first round of the China Open.
07:39 With Simona Halep advancing to the final of the event, Muguruza ultimately lost the number one ranking.
07:47 At the 2018 Australian Open, she was the third seed and was also in contention for the number one ranking.
07:54 In the first round, she beat French wildcard Jessica Ponchet in straight sets.
08:00 In the second round, Muguruza was shocked by the world number 88 Xie Xuwei in straight sets.
08:08 At the French Open, she was defeated by eventual champion Simona Halep in the semi-finals.
08:15 At Wimbledon, defending champion Muguruza was eliminated in the second round by Belgian world number 47 Alison Van Uytvenk
08:24 and thus suffered the earliest defeat of a defending women's champion at the All England Club since Steffi Graf lost in the first round in 1994.
08:33 Muguruza finished her 2018 season with a ranking at a low of 18.
08:40 At the French Open 2019, Muguruza upset Svetlana, the number nine seed, to reach her sixth consecutive round of 16.
08:48 Muguruza's struggles at the majors would continue at Wimbledon, losing to Beatrice Haddad Maya in the first round.
08:57 Following the loss, Muguruza announced a split with her long-time coach Sam Sumic.
09:04 Cutting her tennis season short in November, Muguruza climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain.
09:11 In 2020, following the suspension of the WTA Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she participated in the US Open.
09:20 There, she defeated Nao Hibino before losing in the second round to a returning Svetlana Pirankova.
09:29 At the 2021 Australian Open, she was defeated by Naomi Osaka in the fourth round.
09:35 Muguruza began the 2022 season at the Sydney International, where she was the second seed.
09:42 After a first-round bye, Muguruza defeated Ekaterina Aleksandrova in straight sets before losing in the quarterfinals to Daria Kasatkina in straight sets.
09:53 At the 2022 Australian Open, she beat Clara Burel in straight sets in the first round.
09:59 Muguruza was upset in the second round with a straight sets loss to world number 61 Elise Cornier.
10:08 On 29 April, she reached her 300th WTA Korea win with an upset over Ayla Tomljanovic at the WTA 1000 Madrid Open.
10:20 At the French Open, she lost to Kaya Kanepi in the first round.
10:24 Muguruza has been endorsed by Adidas for clothing, footwear and apparel since 2012.
10:30 She frequently wears the range designed by Stella McCartney.
10:34 Throughout her career, Muguruza has been endorsed by Babola for rackets, specifically using the PureDrive range.
10:44 She was named the ambassador for Mazda Spain in June 2014 and for BBVA Bank in December 2014.
10:51 In June 2016, she was named the 14th most marketable athlete by SportsPro.
10:58 In 2017, shortly before winning her first Wimbledon women's singles crown, Muguruza announced that she had become an ambassador for the international education NGO Room to Read.
11:11 And on that lovely note, it's time for us to call it a day. But we do hope that you liked the video and found it informative.
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