My improvement was pretty drastic,” she noted with a laugh. “That was the first time in my life that I played tennis every day-the first time that I had to go train for two hours every day. and Puerto Rico, it wasn’t until Fernández was recruited to play at Clemson University on a full-ride scholarship that she really decided to take the sport seriously. While she experienced moderate success as a junior at national events in the U.S. A ‘career-woman’ in the ’60s and ’70s in Latin America wasn’t a thing, so I had to kind of blaze my own trail and follow my own path and make it up as I went along.” That was back in the ’60s and ’70s what girls in Puerto Rico were raised to do. “I was kind of raised to get married and have kids. Beatrice Fernndez, known professionally as Gigi Fernndez, is considered among the best doubles tennis players in the world. In fact, I’m the first professional athlete from Puerto Rico in any sport, so I’m the first woman to earn a living from sports in Puerto Rico. “There was no one that I could look up to that looked like me and I could say, “Oh, I want to be like her.” nobody from anywhere in the Caribbean or even anyone from Latin America.
“Growing up in Puerto Rico, I had no role models,” she noted.
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