D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Lulu Sun advancing to the second round of Wimbledon

The stats keep coming on Lulu Sun's advance into the second round of Wimbledon by beating eighth seed Qinwen Zheng in three sets.

The victory is the first in a grand slam main draw by a New Zealand woman since Marina Erakovic made the third round on grass in 2016.

The win also marks the first over a top 10 player by one of her compatriots since Erakovic beat Victoria Azarenka in 2011.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further. 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Darcy water Grave Sports Store coasters with us. Hey, Darce,
good afternoon. How good is the latest recruision to our
tennis team? Not so bad? And a really interesting backstory.
Had you ever heard of Lulu Soum before? So she
played her first Grand Slam start of the year and
Australia got knocked out in the first rounds. Yeah, I

(00:22):
think did she transfer her? She was born in New Zealand,
she went to live in Switzerland. She's got a Croatian
dad and a Chinese mum and she spends most of
her time now in Slovenia with her coaches or Florida
because she was scored in the United States. She loves us,
so she's decided to stuff playing out around. When she

(00:44):
came over to the ASP, she thought this was so good,
So I think maybe the Ossie open straight after that,
So I might have taken a while to transfer their allegiances.
But this was a fantastic living in Switzerland and she
was five years old. She's fluent in English and French
and Chinese. Obviously a brilliant tennis player, studies international affairs

(01:05):
and politics. So the kind of women that you really
love to hate because she's got everything, man, I'll tell
you what she is going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
She's going to need a good man.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, no, she can need a good partner, or maybe
she can just do it all alone. Does it really
really matter? So that victory over jin kin We was
for six six two six four. She beat the eighth
seed and she seated somewhere in like below one hundred
is one hundred and twenty three. Beat the eighth seed.
First time she's beaten a top ten player, first time

(01:37):
she's beaten anyone in the top one hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Just happened to be a top ten player.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
This is the finalist in the Aussie Open at the
start of the year. So definitely a shining star. So
she's taking on this woman called Julia startledub saver. I
don't know did Lulu get lucky or is she actually?
Is she thiss good? You? I didn't watch the game.

(02:02):
I've seen a couple of the points, that's all. But
when you look at the score for six six two
six four, that suggests she's good because you go down
to a top seed like that for six and then
you rally to win six to two in the next and.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Then you carry on. How good that would suggest.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I'm told that she's very good at turning her defensive
game into an offense. I, Lulu, welcome to Welcome to
I okay. So we've got the Warriors team out tonight,
and thank god, we're not going to have to agonize
about whether they're going to make the right call in
number seven. Well, because Shawn Johnson's broken out so they
can't pick him. But he still is at the Warriors
press conference today, the media session, and he's there. He's

(02:40):
engaged in training. Look, he can't train, but he's not
hiding in the gym doing all of his rehab. He's
out there, according to Andrew Webster, with everybody talking and
chatting and jeeing them, mart providing all the energy that
he has as a thirty three year old athlete and
helping them on. Because we've got to Madie Martin, who
was out and I keep thinking to Lady, Martin's a

(03:02):
younger player, is younger than Johnson, but he's twenty seven
to twenty eight. So I've been around with it that
he was sensational. And then you've got a few other
players floating around. Do you remember Metcalf has yet to
come back, so that'd be interesting how they combo to
six and seven again they have two sevens playing. But
I think that predictions or reports of his demise Sean Johnson.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Just completely utterly wrong.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I say that because he's still so much upstairs that
he can offer to this team, and he can help
feed that next generation through. And he's not still playing
because he wants to draw a paycheck. He's still playing
because he thinks he can offer something. So he was
playing under an injury cloud and that probably wasn't the
best move. But now they've got a guy who can
sit in his spot and play very very well. So

(03:49):
now Sean's like right competition, Yeah right, this is nothing
like a bit of competition.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Eight.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Absolutely all right, Dars, thank you, always appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Darcy want to grow grave. Yeah, that's I'm terrified of
the interns.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
I'm just warming up for the day. That's what's going on.
I haven't spoken to anybody for like two hours. You're
not terrified of the interns too, They're all on our jobs.
Oh look, I'll be terrified of the interns in a
few years.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
For now, I'm just going to relax a little bit.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm terrified of other people at the moment, namely you,
I'm gonna stuff your name up so badly, do it
for me, Darcy Crispin, Waldergrave sports stook cost back at
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