Milagros Sequera

Milagros Sequera was a Venezuelan tennis player who played professionally from 1999 to 2009. Sequera achieved a career-best singles ranking of #48 in the world in July 2007 and a doubles ranking of #29 in the world in January 2005. Between March and June 2004 she reached the final of four WTA doubles tournaments with her Australian partner Lisa McShea, with the pair winning three titles. In 2003 Sequera reached the final of the Challenge Bell tournament in Québec where she played against Mariya Sharapova but was forced to retire from the match after the first set. Her only WTA singles title came four years later when she won the Morocco Open, beating Aleksandra Wozniak in straight sets.

In 2000 Sequera partnered María Alejandra Vento in the doubles at the Sydney Olympics but lost to the Belgian duo of Els Callens and Dominique Van Roost in the quarter-finals. She had an impressive record at the Pan American Games, winning gold in the singles in 2003 and 2007. She had a similar record at the Central American and Caribbean Games, winning gold in the doubles and mixed doubles, along with silver in the singles in 2006. In 2008 Sequera made another appearance at the Olympics, this time competing in the singles at the Beijing Games. One year later she married the Australian tennis player Stephen Huss, with the pair moving to Atlanta.