Marilda Julia
| Full name | Marilda Julia Sanchez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country (sports) |  Puerto Rico | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | South Carolina, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 22, 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | No. 492 (Dec 21, 1986) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | No. 451 (Jan 19, 1987) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marilda Julia Sanchez (born February 22, 1965) is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player.
Julia, who comes from San Juan originally, combined her tennis career with studies at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and made two WTA Tour main draw appearances, at the Puerto Rico Open in 1986 and 1987.
Throughout the 1980s she represented Puerto Rico in many multi-sport events. She partnered with Gigi Fernández to win the doubles gold medal at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games and four years later in Santiago de los Caballeros was runner-up to Crissy González in the singles. She won two Pan American Games medals for Puerto Rico in doubles and was a singles bronze medalist at the 1985 Summer Universiade in Kobe.[1]
A member of the Puerto Rican Sports Pavilion of Fame, Julia now lives in South Carolina and is the head tennis professional at the Rawls Creek Tennis and Swim Club.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Soviet defeats Rush in University Games". Del Rio News Herald. 1 September 1985.
- ^ Order on the Court-Local Tennis Clubs. Irmo Chapin Life Magazine. July 20, 2020.
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- 1965 births
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- Puerto Rican female tennis players
- Summer World University Games medalists in tennis
- Universiade medalists for Puerto Rico
- Medalists at the 1985 Summer Universiade
- Pan American Games medalists in tennis
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Puerto Rico
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Puerto Rico
- Tennis players at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Tennis players at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in tennis
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Puerto Rico
- Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Puerto Rico
- Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Puerto Rico
- Competitors at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games
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- Sportspeople from San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Puerto Rican women