December 15, 2024 • 14 mins
After becoming the first kiwi woman to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals, Lulu Sun was named as the Woman's Tennis Association Newcomer of the Year. But tennis isn't Lulu's only passion, she has partnered with Sustainable Coastlines and will be completing litter intelligence training after the Australian Open.
Toni and Lulu chat about Lulu's performance at Wimbledon, dealing with her recent injury, and what litter intelligence training includes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We need to talk conversations on wellness with Coast FM's
Tony Street.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hello and welcome to We need to Talk. It's great
to have you with us. She was the standout performer
at Wimbledon, the first key wee woman ever to make
the quarter finals and we were quick to claim tennis
sensation Lulu San. It was a special time for tennis
in this country. New Zealanders were intrigued, so much so
that Lulu was the sixth most googled person by New
Zealanders this year. She was then recognized by the WTA
(00:29):
as Newcomer of the Year. The good news keeps coming.
Lulu's coming to Auckland for the ASB Classics starting at
the end of December, so we'll be able to see
her play in person. What you might not know about
Lulusan is that her passion away from the court is sustainability.
She's just partnered with Sustainable Coastlines and we'll be completing
LISTIT intelligence training after the Australian Open. It's lovely to
(00:52):
talk to you, Lulu. What an amazing year you have had.
Can you describe how you feel about the past year.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, it's it's lovely to be here on this podcast. Yeah,
I mean this year, definitely, I think we played over.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The expectations of what we set out this year.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But you know, it's it's always a good thing and
definitely I've learned a lot and I've experienced some things
that I haven't for the past years that I've been playing.
So it's it's definitely been the crazy year.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
What does it do to your confidence in your your
heat space going forward now and playing more matches when
you know that you have been a quarter finalist at Wimbledon.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I mean you still have to, you know, keep playing,
keep playing tournaments, keep playing you know the players that
are around the whole year round, so you you have
it in the.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Back of the mind.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's a good achievement, but I think you have to
just kind of put it, put it away and keep
going and keep continuing work.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Was the decision to come to Auckland's the Ace be
Classic an easy one for you?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I Mean I loved my time there this year when
I was there, and I always love coming back to
New Zealand, so it's it's.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
A no brainer.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
What's it like when you come back, like, are you
catching up with family or old friends. How does that work?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, I definitely am.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Some of my family are going to be there to watch,
so I'm I'm super excited about that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
You're coming back, though, with quite a different vibe this year,
right because of what you've achieved. So do you expect
that the attention might be just leveled up a wee bit?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Oh maybe maybe?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, I can tell you from my end that I
think it might be. I don't know if you under
quite understood, because you were obviously over in the UK,
but when you were moving through the drawer at Wimbledon
here in New Zealand, everyone got very very excited because
we don't have a lot of tennis champions here. Did
you feel that support over there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, I mean even at Wimbledon, there were some kiwis
out there and it was quite amazing to kind of
hear about it. Obviously, you know, I had to focus
on my matches, but you know, people around me told
me about it, and I was just very very grateful
to have that much support and then to be and
to have people, you know, interested in tennis, and to
(03:25):
you know, have New Zealand be viewed on the map
of while at Wimbledon.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
So it was kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And you've been carrying a bit of an injury. Where
were you at with it? Ah?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, so kind of the end of the.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Year, I had an injury on my hips back and
risk some of it was from Wimbledon that carried on
at the end of the year and so it was
kind of disappointing that I wasn't able to finish kind
of by a tournament.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
But it's it's all right.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It happens, and right now I'm training fully one hundred percent,
so you know, knock on one, nothing new comes. But yeah,
I'm super excited for the new season.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's a special time to be in New Zealand around
Christmas and New Years. What are you planning to do?
Is there anything that activity outside of tennis that you
think you want to do when you're here.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's my sibling's birthday actually when when I'm arriving, so
we're going to celebrate their birthdays. And then I know
there's like in Auckland, there's you're able to do bungee jumping,
and so I kind of want to do that because
I did it in Queenstown, the bunge jumping and skydiving,
(04:38):
So I wanted.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Something to do that in Auckland as well, But we'll see.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I love that you're a Dare Devil. We'll make sure
we film that one because that'd be awesome to watch.
What about your other interests outside of tennis? I know
that you're quite arty, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I do love to draw, and you know, just a
few other like go museums to look at art as well.
I just find it very calming in a way, and
I don't have to think much about it, so it's
just kind of like a soothing type of hobby.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I guess do you find it's quite important to have
other interests outside of tenis since it is you live
and breathe Tenis most of the year.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I mean whether you're an athlete or you work at
you know, nine to five, I think having something outside
of your work is very important because I don't think
it's kind of healthy in a way to think about
twenty four seven. So it's it's always good to have
something to you know, look forward to, or to have
(05:42):
in something to enjoy outside of whether you like it
or not, of your work. But it's always important to
have something else as well.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I just want to go back in time a little
bit now to when you were younger. I know I
read somewhere that you weren't a natural initially at tenis.
Can you tell us how that went and then how
you ended up making that your career.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You know, I kind of started because of my sister.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Was kind of starting tennis, so I was kind of
put in tennis as well, and you know.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
At the start I wasn't as good, but and my mom.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Was questioning whether I should continue that sport. But I
don't know, I kind of found the fun in competing
and I just continued. And at the start it wasn't
I wasn't really thinking about going professionally. It was just
kind of, oh, how can I get better at this?
You know, I want to compete against my sister, I
want to compete against you know, my friends, and so
(06:39):
it kind of just I guess because of competitiveness and
wanting to do better, it kind of just naturally evolved
like that. So just because you don't you aren't good
at it at the start, doesn't mean you can't you
can't be better at it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What do you think the key attributes are to be
as successful as you have been in your sport. Know,
we have a lot of mums that listen to this podcast.
They might have kids that are around the sort of
ten to fifteen age group and that good at these
sport Now, what are the key attributes do you think
for someone to go all the way?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I definitely say patience because it's it's you know, it's
a long journey and not everyone has.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
The same paths.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You know, just just because you see someone else your
age that is doing this and that doesn't mean that
you you won't be able to do it in the future.
And definitely to kind of be able to have that
mindset to learn, you know, something every day, every hour,
to just kind of have that open mindset. I think
(07:41):
those are probably the two most important things.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I would say.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Great, I'm writing that down because I'm an equal coach,
so we had to pass that on to my gils.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Now that we need to talk with Tony Street.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Tell us about your interest in sustainability. When did that start?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Been fascinated by it?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I've you know, lived in countries where sustainability is very important,
so I've always been you know, intrigued by it, and
when I went to university, I kind of that was
my major in a way because I studied international relationship,
but my track was environmental science and technology. So I continue,
(08:25):
you know, to do classes and to study it because
I've always, i don't know, found a natural curiosity out
of it, and I think it's I think we have
a responsibility to make kind of future generations have a
better lifestyle, better a better world to live in.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Tell us about this litter intelligence course that you're doing.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, So it's basically it helps you learn how to
collect data litter data, and it's run by Sustainable Coastlines
and it's out there as first national litter database, so
that's that's pretty cool. And it helps like scientists collect
(09:09):
littered data to report at the highest level so that
people can learn about it and what else, uh specifics
about you know, litter in our water as well, and
all of this like kind of helps people in general
to be aware and informed and where to kind of
put their energy once they are aware of it, and
(09:33):
in general kind of just paints the picture of of
the litter in in New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
So it's it's it's pretty amazing thing.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And and all of this data and information is all
available online for free.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Amazing do you know, we go to it just to
sustainable coastlines, do you. Yeah, okay, fantastic talk us through
your Christmas plans.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So coincidentally, my brother is aligned his birthday with Christmas,
so we always do kind of birthday Christmas in a way.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
But yeah, so it's.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Going to be quite busy with celebrations and all that.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Usually for the.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Most part, like I try to come back to New
Zealand for Christmas, but you know, the past few years
I've I've been kind of busy with university and also
traveling for tennis.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
So I wasn't able to do it. So just online
through technology, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah. And what about Christmas shopping, because we've been talking
about gift guides a lot on radio for the last
few weeks, and it must be hard for you when
you're always traveling to try and get gifts and where
are you wrapping them? It must be hard.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, I mean you definitely have to think about you know,
the different Obviously, people like different things and so you
are always thinking about, oh, you know, when can I
get it or how can I you know, pack them?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Because if you're gonna spend Christmas.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
With a lot of people, it's it's hard to pack
if you're traveling, so I always try to kind of
manage it, and for the most part, but by small
things that I can carry, but that are meaningful and
and I try to base it on on what that
particular person likes and enjoys.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Is there anything in particular that you would like for
Christmas apart from winning the Ius be Classic?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Of course, right, I'd say, I don't know. I like
books and maybe I like paints, so but the problem is,
like I like those type of things, but it's hard
to carry when traveling.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
So I'm always like.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
No, don't, don't, don't, don't buy me those things because
I can't travel with them.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, where am I going to fit them? That's actually
really hard. Yeah, this echoete that you've just recently got
WTA Newcomer of the Year. That must have been pretty
special for you, Like, how do you feel about it?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Obviously, the whole year has been amazing, and you know,
we've achieved a lot as a team, but to have that,
you know, to be chosen as a Newcomer of the Year,
it already adds up to a lot of things that
happened this year, and it's just you know, something that
adds up to the motivation and to keep on working
(12:29):
and keep on improving.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
For the upcoming years.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yeah, this might seem like a silly question, but I'm
just trying to get a grip on your mindset now
when you go into these tournaments. I know you have
to treat each one individually, but do you in the
back of your mind think, oh God, the Grand Slams
are coming up. It'd be amazing to be able to
sort of repeat what I was able to do in Wimbledon.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I mean, obviously you want to do well in each
tournament and you want to go far, but I really
have to kind of, you know, focus on each each
match and you know, go kind of day by day
and within those tournaments and weeks of training, I kind
of just have to, you know, improve as much as
(13:08):
I can and continue to work because if you sack off,
you know other people are working as hard as you,
or even harder, so you have to kind of keep
keep that going.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And just lastly, Lulu, I'd like to ask, what do
you think is the best thing about New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I'd say definitely, I mean nature.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Everyone knows New Zealand for the nature, but it's also
very diverse, and it's rich in culture as well, so
I think those three things are probably the biggest you know,
things about New Zealand that are really amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well, thank you so much for Tedding today and all
the very best for the Acepy Classic. I think I
can speak for most Kiwis to say we are thrilled
to have you back, particularly after what you achieved at Wimbledon,
and very proud to call you our own.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Thank you so much for having.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
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We need to talk conversations on wellness with Coast FM's
Tony Street.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hello and welcome to We need to Talk. It's great
to have you with us. She was the standout performer
at Wimbledon, the first key wee woman ever to make
the quarter finals and we were quick to claim tennis
sensation Lulu San. It was a special time for tennis
in this country. New Zealanders were intrigued, so much so
that Lulu was the sixth most googled person by New
Zealanders this year. She was then recognized by the WTA
(00:29):
as Newcomer of the Year. The good news keeps coming.
Lulu's coming to Auckland for the ASB Classics starting at
the end of December, so we'll be able to see
her play in person. What you might not know about
Lulusan is that her passion away from the court is sustainability.
She's just partnered with Sustainable Coastlines and we'll be completing
LISTIT intelligence training after the Australian Open. It's lovely to
(00:52):
talk to you, Lulu. What an amazing year you have had.
Can you describe how you feel about the past year.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, it's it's lovely to be here on this podcast. Yeah,
I mean this year, definitely, I think we played over.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The expectations of what we set out this year.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But you know, it's it's always a good thing and
definitely I've learned a lot and I've experienced some things
that I haven't for the past years that I've been playing.
So it's it's definitely been the crazy year.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
What does it do to your confidence in your your
heat space going forward now and playing more matches when
you know that you have been a quarter finalist at Wimbledon.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I mean you still have to, you know, keep playing,
keep playing tournaments, keep playing you know the players that
are around the whole year round, so you you have
it in the.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Back of the mind.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's a good achievement, but I think you have to
just kind of put it, put it away and keep
going and keep continuing work.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Was the decision to come to Auckland's the Ace be
Classic an easy one for you?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I Mean I loved my time there this year when
I was there, and I always love coming back to
New Zealand, so it's it's.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
A no brainer.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
What's it like when you come back, like, are you
catching up with family or old friends. How does that work?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, I definitely am.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Some of my family are going to be there to watch,
so I'm I'm super excited about that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
You're coming back, though, with quite a different vibe this year,
right because of what you've achieved. So do you expect
that the attention might be just leveled up a wee bit?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Oh maybe maybe?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, I can tell you from my end that I
think it might be. I don't know if you under
quite understood, because you were obviously over in the UK,
but when you were moving through the drawer at Wimbledon
here in New Zealand, everyone got very very excited because
we don't have a lot of tennis champions here. Did
you feel that support over there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, I mean even at Wimbledon, there were some kiwis
out there and it was quite amazing to kind of
hear about it. Obviously, you know, I had to focus
on my matches, but you know, people around me told
me about it, and I was just very very grateful
to have that much support and then to be and
to have people, you know, interested in tennis, and to
(03:25):
you know, have New Zealand be viewed on the map
of while at Wimbledon.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
So it was kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And you've been carrying a bit of an injury. Where
were you at with it? Ah?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, so kind of the end of the.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Year, I had an injury on my hips back and
risk some of it was from Wimbledon that carried on
at the end of the year and so it was
kind of disappointing that I wasn't able to finish kind
of by a tournament.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
But it's it's all right.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It happens, and right now I'm training fully one hundred percent,
so you know, knock on one, nothing new comes. But yeah,
I'm super excited for the new season.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's a special time to be in New Zealand around
Christmas and New Years. What are you planning to do?
Is there anything that activity outside of tennis that you
think you want to do when you're here.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's my sibling's birthday actually when when I'm arriving, so
we're going to celebrate their birthdays. And then I know
there's like in Auckland, there's you're able to do bungee jumping,
and so I kind of want to do that because
I did it in Queenstown, the bunge jumping and skydiving,
(04:38):
So I wanted.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Something to do that in Auckland as well, But we'll see.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I love that you're a Dare Devil. We'll make sure
we film that one because that'd be awesome to watch.
What about your other interests outside of tennis? I know
that you're quite arty, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I do love to draw, and you know, just a
few other like go museums to look at art as well.
I just find it very calming in a way, and
I don't have to think much about it, so it's
just kind of like a soothing type of hobby.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I guess do you find it's quite important to have
other interests outside of tenis since it is you live
and breathe Tenis most of the year.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I mean whether you're an athlete or you work at
you know, nine to five, I think having something outside
of your work is very important because I don't think
it's kind of healthy in a way to think about
twenty four seven. So it's it's always good to have
something to you know, look forward to, or to have
(05:42):
in something to enjoy outside of whether you like it
or not, of your work. But it's always important to
have something else as well.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I just want to go back in time a little
bit now to when you were younger. I know I
read somewhere that you weren't a natural initially at tenis.
Can you tell us how that went and then how
you ended up making that your career.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You know, I kind of started because of my sister.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Was kind of starting tennis, so I was kind of
put in tennis as well, and you know.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
At the start I wasn't as good, but and my mom.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Was questioning whether I should continue that sport. But I
don't know, I kind of found the fun in competing
and I just continued. And at the start it wasn't
I wasn't really thinking about going professionally. It was just
kind of, oh, how can I get better at this?
You know, I want to compete against my sister, I
want to compete against you know, my friends, and so
(06:39):
it kind of just I guess because of competitiveness and
wanting to do better, it kind of just naturally evolved
like that. So just because you don't you aren't good
at it at the start, doesn't mean you can't you
can't be better at it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What do you think the key attributes are to be
as successful as you have been in your sport. Know,
we have a lot of mums that listen to this podcast.
They might have kids that are around the sort of
ten to fifteen age group and that good at these
sport Now, what are the key attributes do you think
for someone to go all the way?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I definitely say patience because it's it's you know, it's
a long journey and not everyone has.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
The same paths.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You know, just just because you see someone else your
age that is doing this and that doesn't mean that
you you won't be able to do it in the future.
And definitely to kind of be able to have that
mindset to learn, you know, something every day, every hour,
to just kind of have that open mindset. I think
(07:41):
those are probably the two most important things.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I would say.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Great, I'm writing that down because I'm an equal coach,
so we had to pass that on to my gils.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Now that we need to talk with Tony Street.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Tell us about your interest in sustainability. When did that start?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Been fascinated by it?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I've you know, lived in countries where sustainability is very important,
so I've always been you know, intrigued by it, and
when I went to university, I kind of that was
my major in a way because I studied international relationship,
but my track was environmental science and technology. So I continue,
(08:25):
you know, to do classes and to study it because
I've always, i don't know, found a natural curiosity out
of it, and I think it's I think we have
a responsibility to make kind of future generations have a
better lifestyle, better a better world to live in.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Tell us about this litter intelligence course that you're doing.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, So it's basically it helps you learn how to
collect data litter data, and it's run by Sustainable Coastlines
and it's out there as first national litter database, so
that's that's pretty cool. And it helps like scientists collect
(09:09):
littered data to report at the highest level so that
people can learn about it and what else, uh specifics
about you know, litter in our water as well, and
all of this like kind of helps people in general
to be aware and informed and where to kind of
put their energy once they are aware of it, and
(09:33):
in general kind of just paints the picture of of
the litter in in New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
So it's it's it's pretty amazing thing.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And and all of this data and information is all
available online for free.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Amazing do you know, we go to it just to
sustainable coastlines, do you. Yeah, okay, fantastic talk us through
your Christmas plans.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So coincidentally, my brother is aligned his birthday with Christmas,
so we always do kind of birthday Christmas in a way.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
But yeah, so it's.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Going to be quite busy with celebrations and all that.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Usually for the.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Most part, like I try to come back to New
Zealand for Christmas, but you know, the past few years
I've I've been kind of busy with university and also
traveling for tennis.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
So I wasn't able to do it. So just online
through technology, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah. And what about Christmas shopping, because we've been talking
about gift guides a lot on radio for the last
few weeks, and it must be hard for you when
you're always traveling to try and get gifts and where
are you wrapping them? It must be hard.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, I mean you definitely have to think about you know,
the different Obviously, people like different things and so you
are always thinking about, oh, you know, when can I
get it or how can I you know, pack them?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Because if you're gonna spend Christmas.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
With a lot of people, it's it's hard to pack
if you're traveling, so I always try to kind of
manage it, and for the most part, but by small
things that I can carry, but that are meaningful and
and I try to base it on on what that
particular person likes and enjoys.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Is there anything in particular that you would like for
Christmas apart from winning the Ius be Classic?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Of course, right, I'd say, I don't know. I like
books and maybe I like paints, so but the problem is,
like I like those type of things, but it's hard
to carry when traveling.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
So I'm always like.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
No, don't, don't, don't, don't buy me those things because
I can't travel with them.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, where am I going to fit them? That's actually
really hard. Yeah, this echoete that you've just recently got
WTA Newcomer of the Year. That must have been pretty
special for you, Like, how do you feel about it?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Obviously, the whole year has been amazing, and you know,
we've achieved a lot as a team, but to have that,
you know, to be chosen as a Newcomer of the Year,
it already adds up to a lot of things that
happened this year, and it's just you know, something that
adds up to the motivation and to keep on working
(12:29):
and keep on improving.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
For the upcoming years.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yeah, this might seem like a silly question, but I'm
just trying to get a grip on your mindset now
when you go into these tournaments. I know you have
to treat each one individually, but do you in the
back of your mind think, oh God, the Grand Slams
are coming up. It'd be amazing to be able to
sort of repeat what I was able to do in Wimbledon.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I mean, obviously you want to do well in each
tournament and you want to go far, but I really
have to kind of, you know, focus on each each
match and you know, go kind of day by day
and within those tournaments and weeks of training, I kind
of just have to, you know, improve as much as
(13:08):
I can and continue to work because if you sack off,
you know other people are working as hard as you,
or even harder, so you have to kind of keep
keep that going.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And just lastly, Lulu, I'd like to ask, what do
you think is the best thing about New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I'd say definitely, I mean nature.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Everyone knows New Zealand for the nature, but it's also
very diverse, and it's rich in culture as well, so
I think those three things are probably the biggest you know,
things about New Zealand that are really amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well, thank you so much for Tedding today and all
the very best for the Acepy Classic. I think I
can speak for most Kiwis to say we are thrilled
to have you back, particularly after what you achieved at Wimbledon,
and very proud to call you our own.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Thank you so much for having.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Me really to talk with Coast FM's Tony Street. If
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