{"id":174642,"date":"2025-09-28T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174642\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:22:08","slug":"tennis-kiwi-lulu-sun-lifts-trophy-at-wta-125-tournament-in-jingshan-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174642\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Kiwi Lulu Sun lifts trophy at WTA 125 tournament in Jingshan, China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lulu<\/p>\n

\nLulu Sun celebrating a tournament win in China which will boost her ranking to near 125.
\nPhoto: Alfredo Falcone\/LaPresse\/Photosport\n<\/p>\n

Kiwi tennis No.1 Lulu Sun is getting back on track, after a ranking plummet to near 150 in the world.<\/p>\n

Sun has won the WTA Tour 125-level tournament in China, beating local favourite Ma Ye-Xin 6-4 6-2 in the final at Jingshan.<\/p>\n

At the semi-final stage, Sun defeated rising star Alexandra Eala of the Philippines.<\/p>\n

The Kiwi fought back, after dropping the first set against Eala, to take the match in three sets in a major confidence boost.<\/p>\n

Eala, 20, is ranked No.58 and is touted as one of the newcomers to watch on the women’s tour.<\/p>\n

As well as the 125 ranking points Sun receives from winning the tournament, she also picks up US$22,730 (NZ$39,373) in prizemoney.<\/p>\n

The title victory will lift Sun’s ranking from 146 up to about 125.<\/p>\n

Sun will play next week in Suzhou, China. She is also confirmed to play<\/a> in front of home fans at Auckland’s ASB Classic in January.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lulu Sun celebrating a tournament win in China which will boost her ranking to near 125. Photo: Alfredo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,85,747],"class_list":["post-174642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}