{"id":855652,"date":"2026-08-15T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855652\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:20:09","slug":"lulu-sun-announces-break-from-tennis-due-to-relentless-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855652\/","title":{"rendered":"Lulu Sun announces break from tennis due to ‘relentless’ demands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lulu Sun announced in a social media post Friday night that she was taking a break from tennis due to the “relentless” demands of the competition.<\/p>\n

“In professional tennis, as in life, there is constant pressure to perfect oneself.” She wrote on Instagram. “The physical and emotional demands of a competition schedule are relentless and can impact your life in more ways than one.”<\/p>\n

Ranked New Zealand’s number one women’s tennis player, Sun said she wants to enjoy life beyond the courts.<\/p>\n

“With that in mind, I have decided to take some time away from the competition to give myself a little space for my wellbeing.<\/p>\n

“It will give me the opportunity to step away from the demand of competition, reset and prepare for what’s ahead.”<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old reached the Wimbledon quarter-final<\/a> in 2024, becoming the first NZ singles player to reach the final eight of the Grand Slam tournament since 1983.<\/p>\n

This January, she was forced to withdraw from the ASB Classic<\/a> in Auckland due to a wrist injury. <\/p>\n

Sun ended the post with a thank you to her supporters.<\/p>\n

“I find it hard to express how deeply appreciative I am to all my team members, friends, family and fans for their continuous belief in me. Your support and kindness means everything. <\/p>\n

“I am also truly grateful for my sponsors who I’d like to thank for their continuous trust and patronage, and for being an important part of my journey.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lulu Sun announced in a social media post Friday night that she was taking a break from tennis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,17007,9671,11452,8878,425867,99,32932,425868,405089,11008,88155,425869,36143,17971,5304,425870,2003,425871,8551,425872,2057,425873,186,4081,5284,34386,208,93569,202342,5474,3088,425874,173743,425875,1781,2951,85,226273,425876,4679,22386,747,84180,177124,13998,5429,425877,4848,193,13886],"class_list":["post-855652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-backgrounds","tag-bank","tag-bank-account","tag-banking","tag-british-currency","tag-business","tag-casino","tag-cent-sign","tag-charity-and-relief-work","tag-close-up","tag-coin","tag-coin-bank","tag-color-image","tag-credit-card","tag-currency","tag-currency-symbol","tag-dollar","tag-dollar-sign","tag-earnings","tag-euro-symbol","tag-europe","tag-european-union-currency","tag-finance","tag-frequency","tag-gold","tag-group-of-objects","tag-growth","tag-heap","tag-home-finances","tag-investment","tag-metal","tag-paper-currency","tag-paying","tag-pound-symbol","tag-savings","tag-sign","tag-sports","tag-stack","tag-stacking","tag-stock-market","tag-success","tag-tennis","tag-tower","tag-treasure","tag-treasury","tag-uk","tag-us-coin","tag-wages","tag-wealth","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855652","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=855652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}