Lulu Sun Biography, Age, Height, Parents, Career, Wikipedia

Lulu Sun is a New Zealand and Swiss tennis player, who has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 123, achieved on 24 June 2024, and a best doubles ranking of No. 219, reached on 6 May 2024. “I’m really happy to be able to have so many cultures and backgrounds with me even though sometimes I’m not, as I said before, 100% in each one. It’s impossible to be,” Sun said. “I’m grateful to be able to at least have some of it.” ¹

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Lulu Sun Wikipedia/Biography

Lulu Radovcic was born on 14 April 2001 in Te Anau, New Zealand and she is 23 years old as of 2024. She believes in the Christian religion and holds Swiss nationality. Her zodiac sign is Aries and her height is 5′ 8″ inches.

Lulu Sun Education

Lulu attended college in the United States at the University of Texas at Austin and did her graduation in 2022 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

“I didn’t know going into college that (COVID-19) would happen. I had an injury that year, and my mom, she was really worried,” recalled Sun. “She was, like, ‘I don’t know when you’re going to do your exams, you have to focus on your studies a bit before you go 100% in tennis.’ I guess it was kind of luck, if you will, and timing.”

Lulu Sun Parents

Sun was born to a Croatian father and a Chinese mother. She was raised in Switzerland from the age of five, where she completed her school education. She has an older sister, Phenomena Sun, who played in professional tournaments until 2016.

Lulu Sun Career

Sun represented Switzerland as a junior and was runner-up with Violet Apisah in the 2018 Australian Open girls’ doubles. She also played under the New Zealand flag at junior Wimbledon that year, losing in the second round in singles and the first round in doubles.

In 2022, Sun turned professional after playing college tennis at the University of Texas in Austin. She helped UT Austin win the 2021 NCAA DI women’s tennis championship. In May 2022, she won her first major ITF title at the Saint-Gaudens Open in doubles with Fernanda Contreras and made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the Morocco Open.

In 2024, Sun made her Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open and recorded her first WTA 1000 win at the Dubai Championships. She represented New Zealand at the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup and won both singles and doubles titles at the W100 Bonita Springs tournament in Florida. She reached the top 125 in June 2024.

At the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, Sun made her debut and upset eighth seed Zheng Qinwen in the first round, marking her first top-10 win. She advanced to the quarterfinals, becoming the first New Zealand woman to reach this stage at Wimbledon in the Open Era. She will play Donna Vekić in the quarterfinals and has moved into the top 55 in the WTA rankings. ²

“That is something that doesn’t come by often, I wasn’t expecting to be here at this stage. I’ve just been playing match by match and yeah, here I am.” ³