Garbine Muguruza : 5 facts about the 2016 French Open winner

She’s actually from Venezuela

Muguruza was born in 1993 to a Spanish father and Venezuelan mother

Muguruza competes under the Spanish flag, but she was born in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas in 1993. While her mother, Scarlet Blanco, is Venezuelan, her father José Antonio Muguruza is Spanish; as a result, Garbine holds both Spanish and Venezuelan nationality.

The family moved from Caracas to Spain when Muguruza was six years old, so she has in fact lived the majority of her life so far – sixteen years, in Spain.