Lulu Sun put up a brave fight in her 6-4 7-6(5) loss to Wimbledon finalist Amanda Anisimova in the second round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Montreal, Canada on Wednesday (Thursday NZ time).<\/p>\n
After defeating Sorana Cirstea 6-3 7-5 in the opening round, The Kiwi No 1 wasn\u2019t able to get a win against an opponent who won six matches at Wimbledon earlier this month, including a victory over world No 1, Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n
The first set of the match between Sun and the American Anisimova was a tight battle, with a break for each player, but Sun was broken again when serving at 4-5.<\/p>\n
The second set was also a close battle with a break for each player, before it went into a tiebreak.<\/p>\n
Once again, there was little between the two players, but Anisimova was able to just edge it out in the tiebreak, to stop the match going to a deciding set.<\/p>\n
While Sun will be disappointed her run at Montreal has come to and end, her win over Cirstea and this narrow loss to one of the most in-form players in the world right now, shows that the 24-year-old is heading back in the right direction after a patchy start to 2025.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Erin Routliffe and Gaby Dabrowski suffered a surprise loss in the first round of the doubles in Montreal, going down 7-6(5) 3-6 10-7 to the American duo of Caroline Dolehide and Sofia Kenin.<\/p>\n
It is the second week in a row that Routliffe has lost to Dolehide and Kenin. Last week when partnering with Asia Muhammad she went down 7-6(4) 6-4 in the semifinals in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lulu Sun put up a brave fight in her 6-4 7-6(5) loss to Wimbledon finalist Amanda Anisimova in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-35924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}