{"id":227119,"date":"2025-10-20T09:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227119\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:27:01","slug":"tennis-nz-lulu-sun-qualifies-for-main-draw-in-guangzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227119\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis NZ \u00bb Lulu Sun qualifies for main draw in Guangzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lulu Sun has made it through qualifying at the WTA 250 tournament in Guangzhou, China.<\/p>\n<p>The Kiwi No 1 defeated Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah from France 6-2 6-2 in the second round of qualifying on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, it took exactly the same amount of time for Sun to beat Li Yuyao in the first round of qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Unusually for Sun, she didn\u2019t serve any aces, but she wasn\u2019t broken and took four games off Rakotomanga Rajaonah\u2019s serve.<\/p>\n<p>This was Sun\u2019s 11th win in 13 matches since the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>By making it into the main draw, Sun will play her first WTA 250 tournament since Eastbourne in June, when she defeated the then world No 16, Daria Kasatkina from Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Once qualifying is completed, the winners will be placed into the main draw.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament\u2019s top two seeds, Jessica Bouzas Maneiro and Ann Li have both been drawn against qualifiers in the opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lulu Sun has made it through qualifying at the WTA 250 tournament in Guangzhou, China. The Kiwi No&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-227119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227119","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=227119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}