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RIO DE JANEIRO， Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Monica Puig lifted Puerto Rico's first ever Olympic gold medal on Saturday after she clinched the women's singles title in the Rio Games tennis competition.
Puig also became the first female athlete representing the country to win a medal of any color at any Olympics after she beat Germany's world number two Angelique Kerber 6-4， 4-6， 6-1.
The world number 34， who has never reached a grand slam quarterfinal， sent Wimbledon runner-up Kerber running around the court as the crowd cheered her on.
Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic won the bronze.
In the men's semifinals， former world number four Juan Del Potro edged past title favorite Rafael Nadal of Spain in a marathon singles.
Del Potro， currently ranked 141st in the world， revenged the doubles' second round loss to eventual winner Nadal， winning 5-7， 6-4， 7-6 (7-5) to set up a men's final meeting on Sunday with defending champion Andy Murray of Britain， who overpowered Japanese Kei Nishikori 6-1， 6-2 in the other semifinal.
Del Potro， whose world rankings dropped drastically due to absence with a wrist injury， nailed the win on the first match point.
"It was tough to play against Rafa because you never know when you're going to win because he fights all the time，" said the Argentine big server.
"You saw what happened in the third set when I served at 5-4 (he lost his serve) but then in the tiebreak I played solid and aggressive with my forehands， looking for the winners and I did great in the end，" he added.
Del Potro who produced one of the biggest surprises of the tournament eliminating world number one Novak Djokovic in the first round， capitalized on the Spaniard's fatigue as Nadal， along with Marc Lopez， labored to beat Romanian pair Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau 6-2， 3-6， 6-4 in two and a half hours Friday night.
"Now is not the time to talk about being tired. I gave everything that I had. I gave the last drop of energy that I had to try to win another medal， for me and Spain，" said Nadal.
"I tried my best. Both of us played a very high level of tennis. It was a very emotional game. I'm satisfied with what I did. I played the best I could with a great fighting spirit. I congratulate Del Potro on a great event for him. But at the same time I am satisfied after two-and-a-half months of not competing， and to arrive here and be able to play the way I did against the best players in the world is great news，" he said.
Nadal missed the London 2012 and was the winner of Beijing 2008 singles.
A woman and a girl yesterday pay tribute to those people who lost their lives in the New Year's Eve tragedy on the Bund. The accident claimed the lives of 36 revelers and left another 49 injured. --— Wang Rongjiang
Several foreigners were among a small number of people trying to provide potentially life-saving first aid to people injured in the New Year's Eve crush on the Bund.
According to a report by China Youth Daily Johnny Bench Jersey , Wu Xiaoxiao, a nurse who was in Shanghai as a tourist, said she witnessed a group of foreigners trying to help some of the people who had been hurt.
"I watched a foreign man giving emergency resuscitation for quite a long time, so I stepped in and offered to help," Wu said.
Aside from herself, a friend who is also a nurse, and the handful of foreigners, very few people tried to deliver first aid to the victims, she said.
"I don't remember how many people I helped, I just tried to keep going as long as I could," she said.
Wu said she didn't get any personal details from the foreigners, though they were all quite tall and she believed they were likely Europeans. Two of them might have been a couple, she said.
As well as Wu's acknowledgement of the efforts of the foreigners, several Internet users have praised the quick thinking of a group of locals who did their best to get the crowds to disperse.
Several young people climbed up onto platforms and yelled for people to "move back" from the worst of the crushing.
"Their simple move saved more people from becoming caught up in the disaster," a person wrote on Weibo.
One of the barkers was identified by xinmin, the website of Shanghai-based Xinmin Evening News, as Xiao Jun (not his real name), who said he and about 10 other people tried to get the crowds from pressing further forward.
"I did nothing special," he said.
Other people tried to create channels through the crowds to allow the injured out and medical teams in, he said.
Another witness to the tragedy, Wu Dengmin, said that despite the horrific events, he knew that things could have been a lot worse if people had not heeded the calls from him and many others for people to "step back," The Beijing News reported yesterday.
"Without those strong voices, something much worse might have happened, The Beijing News quoted him.
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