{"id":241904,"date":"2025-10-21T21:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241904\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:04:10","slug":"sun-qualifies-beats-top-seed-wta-guangzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241904\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun, qualifies, beats top seed WTA Guangzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lulul<\/p>\n

Lulul Sun scored an upset over the top seed at the Guangzhou WTA event in China PHOTO: WTA<\/p>\n

New Zealand tennis professional Lulu Sun has come through qualifying to stun the top seed at the Guangzhou WTA 250 tournament in China.<\/p>\n

Twenty-four-year-old Sun defeated world No 40 Jessica Bouzas Maneiro from Spain, 7-6(3) 7-6(2) to make the second round and continue her good form of late<\/p>\n

Sun has claimed a title, made the second round and semifinals in the past three weeks at WTA 125 tournaments as she bids to improve her ranking into direct entry for January’s Australian Open. <\/p>\n

It was a tight contet against Bouzas Maneiro with the New Zealander down a break in the first set as the Spaniard served at 5-4. <\/p>\n

However, Sun broke back at the crucial moment and eventually took the set into a tiebreak, which she won comfortably.<\/p>\n

There was a break of serve for both players in the second set, before once again Sun raised her level in the tiebreak.<\/p>\n

By winning this match, Sun has picked up another 30 ranking points, which would lift her up 10 places to around 105 in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Australian Open had an entry cut off list of 101 .<\/p>\n

In the second round in Guangzhou, Sun will play against Wang Yafan from China a former top 50 player who has a current ranking of 331 in the world and was given a wildcard to make it into the main draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lulul Sun scored an upset over the top seed at the Guangzhou WTA event in China PHOTO: WTA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-241904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}