Lulu Sun

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Lulu Sun
Sun WMQ22 (21) (52190096327).jpg
Sun at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)
Residence Geneva, Switzerland
Born (2001-04-14) 14 April 2001 (age 23)
Te Anau, Southland, New Zealand
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Turned pro2022
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)
College Texas
Coach Vladimír Pláteník [3]
Prize moneyUS$ 954,459
Singles
Career record237–131
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 39 (9 September 2024)
Current rankingNo. 40 (28 October 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 1R (2024)
French Open Q2 (2024)
Wimbledon QF (2024)
US Open 1R (2024)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games 1R (2024)
Doubles
Career record66–49
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 212 (9 September 2024)
Current rankingNo. 244 (28 October 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
US Open 1R (2024)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games 1R (2024)
Team competitions
BJK Cup 3–3
Last updated on: 28 October 2024.

Lulu Sun (born 14 April 2001) is a New Zealand professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 41 by the WTA, achieved on 26 August 2024, and a best doubles ranking of No. 212, reached on 9 September 2024.

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Early and personal life

Sun was born in Te Anau, New Zealand to a Chinese mother and a Croatian father. Sun briefly lived in Shanghai thereafter. [4] From the age of five she was raised in Geneva, Switzerland, where she completed her school education while still visiting New Zealand to visit family, maintaining her deep bond with New Zealand. [5]

She attended college in the United States at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a bachelor's degree in international relations and global studies in 2022 [6] and completing her degree in just 3 years. [7]

Sun speaks English, French, and Mandarin Chinese fluently; she expressed interest in learning Korean and Japanese. [8]

She has an older sister, Phenomena Sun (born 1998), who played in professional tournaments until 2016. [9]

She represented Croatia and then Switzerland until 2024.

Career

Girls and Juniors

As a teenager, Sun entered a number of ITF Women's Circuit events, playing as Lulu Radovcic [10] and later changed her last name to Sun, her mother's maiden name.[ citation needed ]

Sun represented Switzerland as a junior, finishing runner-up with Violet Apisah in the 2018 Australian Open girls' doubles. [11] [12] She also played under the New Zealand flag at junior Wimbledon that year, losing in the second round in singles and the first round in doubles. [13]

2021–2022: NCAA champion, professional debut

Before turning professional, Sun played one season of college tennis for the Texas Longhorns in 2020–21. [14] She went 15–1 on singles court three and 6–1 on court two. In the final of the 2021 NCAA tournament, Sun won the championship-clinching match for the Longhorns to beat Pepperdine 4–3. Sun partnered Kylie Collins in the team's top doubles spot, going 22–4 in dual matches, and they reached the final of the NCAA doubles tournament but fell to North Carolina's Makenna Jones and Elizabeth Scotty. [15]

In May 2022, she won her first big ITF title at the Saint-Gaudens Open, partnering Fernanda Contreras in doubles. [16] She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the Morocco Open two days later, where she received a wildcard into the singles draw. [17]

2024: Major, WTA 1000 & Olympics debuts, historic Wimbledon quarterfinal, WTA 500 final, top 40

Sun made her Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open after qualifying [18] [19] but was beaten in the first round by Elisabetta Cocciaretto. [20]

On her WTA 1000 debut, she recorded her first win at that level at the Dubai Championships as a wildcard, following the retirement of Paula Badosa. [21] She lost to ninth seed Jelena Ostapenko in the second round. [22]

In April, Sun played under the New Zealand flag for the first time as part of the team for the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup. [23] [1] In May, Sun won the singles and doubles titles at the W100 Bonita Springs Championship in Florida. [24] She reached the top 125 on 17 June 2024.[ citation needed ]

She qualified for the 2024 Wimbledon Championships making her debut at this major and upset eighth seed Zheng Qinwen in the first round. [25] It was her first top 10 win, and also her first completed victory over any player in the top 100. [5] Next, she reached the third round with a win over fellow qualifier Yulia Starodubtseva [26] and the fourth with a win over Zhu Lin. [27] She equalled the feat of reaching the fourth round at the All England Club as the first New Zealand female player in the Open Era, and second after Dame Ruia Morrison in 1957 and 1959. [28] [29] She reached her first quarterfinal with a win over Emma Raducanu becoming the first New Zealand woman to ever reach that stage at Wimbledon in the Open Era. She was only the second woman from New Zealand to reach a major quarterfinal, following Belinda Cordwell at the 1989 Australian Open. [30] Her run finally ended in the quarterfinals where she was beaten in three sets by Donna Vekić. [31] [32] She would go on to represent New Zealand at the 2024 Olympics in singles, where she entered as an alternate, as well as in doubles. [33]

Ranked No. 64, she qualified for the Cincinnati Open making her debut at this WTA 1000, and defeated Linda Nosková in the first round, [34] before losing to 15th seed Marta Kostyuk. [35]

Sun followed this result by reaching her first WTA Tour-level final at the newly upgraded WTA 500 Monterrey Open, with wins over Chloé Paquet, [36] María Lourdes Carlé, [37] [38] Erika Andreeva [39] [40] and third seed Ekaterina Alexandrova. [41] She lost the final to Linda Nosková in straight sets. [42] As a result she reached world No. 41 on 26 August 2024 and the top 40 two weeks later.[ citation needed ]

At the US Open, Sun retired due to a hip injury after losing the opening set of her first round match against Lucia Bronzetti. [43] Having taken a month off tour, she returned to the court at the China Open, but lost in the first round to Ashlyn Krueger. [44] Sun withdrew from her next scheduled tournament, the Hong Kong Tennis Open, and announced she was bringing an end to her 2024 season. [45]

In December, Sun was named WTA Newcomer of the Year. [46] [47]

Performance timelines

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#P#DNQAZ#POGSBNMSNTIPNH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Tournament 2022 2023 2024 SRW–LWin%
Australian Open AA 1R 0 / 10–10%
French Open AA Q2 0 / 00–0 – 
Wimbledon Q3 A QF 0 / 14–180%
US Open AA 1R 0 / 10–10%
Win–loss0–00–04–30 / 34–357%

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
WTA 1000 (0–0)
WTA 500 (0–1)
WTA 250 (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoor (0–1)
Indoor (0–0)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1 Aug 2024 Monterrey Open, MexicoWTA 500Hard Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Linda Nosková 6–7(6–8), 4–6

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 12 (7 titles, 5 runner-ups)

Legend
W100 tournaments (1–0)
W80 tournaments (1–0)
W60 tournaments (0–1)
W50 tournaments (1–0)
W25 tournaments (1–2)
W15 tournaments (3–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (6–4)
Clay (1–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Oct 2017ITF Nonthaburi, ThailandW15Hard Flag of South Korea.svg Choi Ji-hee 2–6, 3–6
Win1–1Feb 2019ITF Port Pirie, AustraliaW15Hard Flag of the United States.svg Jennifer Elie 6–2, 6–3
Win2–1Feb 2019ITF Perth, AustraliaW15Hard Flag of the United States.svg Jennifer Elie7–6(1), 6–3
Loss2–2Nov 2020ITF Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptW15Hard Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Joanna Garland 5–7, 3–6
Win3–2Dec 2020ITF Monastir, TunisiaW15Hard Flag of France.svg Carole Monnet 6–0, 2–6, 6–2
Loss3–3Jun 2021ITF Palma del Río, SpainW25Hard Flag of Spain.svg Rebeka Masarova 3–6, 6–1, 6–7(4)
Win4–3Jul 2021ITF Lisbon, PortugalW25Hard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ellen Perez 6–4, 6–4
Loss4–4Jan 2023ITF Boca Raton, United StatesW25Clay Flag of Mexico.svg Renata Zarazúa 2–6, 5–7
Win5–4Aug 2023 Aberto da República, BrazilW80Hard Flag of France.svg Léolia Jeanjean 6–4, 4–6, 6–2
Loss5–5 Oct 2023 Rancho Santa Fe Open, USW60Hard Flag of Ukraine.svg Yuliia Starodubtseva 5–7, 3–6
Win6–5Feb 2024ITF Roehampton, United KingdomW50Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Heather Watson 7–5, 7–5
Win7–5 May 2024 Bonita Springs Championship, USW100Clay Flag of Australia (converted).svg Maya Joint 6–1, 6–3

Doubles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner–ups)

Legend
W100 tournaments (1–0)
W60/75 tournaments (2–1)
W50 tournaments (1–0)
W25 tournaments (0–3)
W15 tournaments (0–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–5)
Clay (2–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1 Jan 2019 Playford International, AustraliaW25Hard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Amber Marshall Flag of Italy.svg Giulia Gatto-Monticone
Flag of Italy.svg Anastasia Grymalska 		2–6, 3–6
Loss0–2Nov 2020ITF Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptW15Hard Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Valentina Ryser Flag of Russia.svg Ksenia Laskutova
Flag of Russia.svg Daria Mishina 		6–7(3), 7–6(2), [10–12]
Loss0–3Nov 2020ITF Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptW15Hard Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Valentina Ryser Flag of Russia.svg Elina Avanesyan
Flag of Belarus.svg Iryna Shymanovich 		4–6, 1–6
Loss0–4Jun 2021ITF Palma del Río, SpainW25Clay Flag of Japan.svg Himari Sato Flag of Japan.svg Eri Hozumi
Flag of Russia.svg Valeria Savinykh 		6–7(6), 3–6
Win1–4 May 2022 Open Saint-Gaudens, FranceW60Clay Flag of Mexico.svg Fernanda Contreras Gómez Flag of Greece.svg Valentini Grammatikopoulou
Flag placeholder.svg Anastasia Tikhonova 		7–5, 6–2
Win2–4Feb 2023 Georgia's Rome Open, USW60Hard (i) Flag of Hungary.svg Fanny Stollár Flag of Japan.svg Mana Ayukawa
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Gabriela Knutson 		6–3, 6–0
Loss2–5Jul 2023ITF Corroios, PortugalW25Hard Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Sofia Costoulas Flag of Australia (converted).svg Talia Gibson
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Petra Hule 		3–6, 6–3, [6–10]
Win3–5Feb 2024 Trnava Indoor, SlovakiaW50Hard (i) Flag of Japan.svg Moyuka Uchijima Flag of Poland.svg Weronika Falkowska
Flag of Hungary.svg Fanny Stollár		6–4, 7–6(3)
Loss3–6 Mar 2024 Říčany Open, Czech RepublicW75Hard (i) Flag of Hungary.svg Fanny Stollár Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Gabriela Knutson
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Tereza Valentová 		4–6, 6–3, [4–10]
Win4–6 May 2024 Bonita Springs Championship, USW100Clay Flag of Hungary.svg Fanny Stollár Flag of Greece.svg Valentini Grammatikopoulou
Flag of Ukraine.svg Valeriya Strakhova 		6–4, 7–6(3)

Top 10 wins

She has a 1–0 record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10

#OpponentRankEventSurfaceRoundScoreLSR
2024
1. Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zheng Qinwen 8 Wimbledon Championships, UKGrass1R4–6, 6–2, 6–4123

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentScore
Loss 2018 Australian Open Hard Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Violet Apisah Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Liang En-shuo
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Wang Xinyu 		6–7(4–7), 6–4, [5–10]

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