Muguruza Garbiñe receives the bronze medal to the Sport Merit

The Spanish tennis player Garbiñe Muguruza entered the Royal Order of Sporting Merit in the category of bronze, that the Government of Spain, through the National Sports Council (CSD), gave him Thursday at a ceremony in Madrid.

 The Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, Inigo Mendez de Vigo, presided over the "simple act, but no less solemn", with which the Spanish Government provided "an institutional recognition" Garbiñe Muguruza for its "experience in the world tennis. "

Mendez de Vigo said the player from Venezuela is coupled to the Canary Carla Suarez, the protagonist of a good time discipline "legendary tradition that began with Lili Alvarez and continued with Conchita Martínez, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and Virginia Ruano ", among others.

The minister said that "recognition must come when one is active" and should be a "sign of affection" of all people who in recent years have enjoyed the achievements of Garbiñe Muguruza, finalist in the last edition of Wimbledon semifinalist at the End of the WTA .

"We have enjoyed you," said Mendez de Vigo, "and uploaded to the network when you Subías". "We will push too excited us when you receive an award or when the national anthem plays. We want to show you, with the entry into the Royal Order, we recognize what you do," he said.

Mendez de Vigo also held that "women's sports", thanks to the emergence of athletes such as Garbiñe Muguruza, has been "equated to men." "It has even come to pass him and walk with pride the name of Spain," he said.

For his part, the tennis player, who was excited about the award, thanked the President of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), Miguel Cardinal, "the implication of the sport." "Also for the love that has always shown me," he added the player, third in the world rankings.

"No more, jackpot at work," Cardinal said, "to see you grow and see how things will go well." "It makes illusion to think that we could lend a hand , "said the president of the Superior Council of Sports in allusion to support the institution gave the player before to communicate its decision to represent Spain in international competition.