Tennis Star, Lulu Sun on Making Wimbledon Quarterfinal, Representing New Zealand & More!

Lulu Sun is currently ranked as the 40th best tennis player in the world. And she is a kiwi, born in TeAnau.

She shot to fame in the middle of 2024 with an out the gate performance at Wimbledon where, after making it through the intense qualifying rounds she got into the tournament itself then kept on winning, only exiting the event after being beaten in the quarter final. And that was after beating England’s Emma Raducanu on Wimbledon’s center court.

This put her in the history books as the first NZ woman to make it that far at Wimbledon and the first Kiwi in 41 years to play a single match on center court.

That tournament shot her up the world rankings, saw her named as WTA newcomer of the year and earned her $780,000NZD- which was 3 times the total prize money she had won in her whole tennis career to that point.

I caught up with Lulu on Boxing Day while she was back in NZ for the ASB Classic.

Unfortunately, due to her hectic training schedule we only had 45 minutes. And I did a terrible job at time keeping so the conversation comes to a fairly abrupt end - sort of like a tennis match that gets rained off mid-way through the second set.

There were a couple of big lessons in this for me though- watch the clock a bit more, and in future maybe turn down any podcasts where the guest doesn’t have the time required for my podcast objectives.

But that aside, I hope you guys enjoy learning a little bit more about Lulu and her remarkable year 2024.

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