{"id":242201,"date":"2025-10-26T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242201\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:42:09","slug":"li-captures-second-career-title-defeating-sun-in-guangzhou-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242201\/","title":{"rendered":"Li Captures Second Career Title, Defeating Sun in Guangzhou \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Ann Li\u2019s is finishing strong in 2025. The 25-year-old claimed her second career title on Sunday in Guangzhou, battling past Lulu Sun, 7-6(6), 6-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Li, who did not drop a set all week, will rise to a career-high ranking of No.33 as a result of her triumph, she was No.108 this time last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania native fought through a tense opening set that featured ten unconverted break points \u2013 five from each player \u2013 and eventually converted her second set point in the tiebreaker against the 116-ranked qualifier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Li had two set points with Sun serving at 4-5 in the opener; Sun had a break point with Li serving at 5-5; Li had another two set points in the next game, but the former Texas Longhorn fought her off valiantly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sun even led 5-4 in the breaker with two serves to come, but Li took four of the next five points and converted her sixth set point to take the 66-minute opening set.<\/p>\n<p>Li took the momentum and rode it to victory in the second set. She took a 3-0 double-break lead and made it stand up. Li improves to 1-2 lifetime against Sun, who was bidding for her first career WTA title.<\/p>\n<p>Sun will rise from 116 to No.87 in Monday\u2019s WTA rankings as a result of reaching the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Ann Li\u2019s is finishing strong in 2025. The 25-year-old claimed her second career title on Sunday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-242201","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\/242201","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=242201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}