your Name sounds Chinese, your appearance is Asian and in her biography, also the countries, new Zealand, China, Croatia, and Switzerland play a role. Lulu Sun, the vorstiess in the Junior tournament of the Australian Open in the quarter-finals, has a at first glance, confusing Multi-cultural Background. And the comes.
Lulu Sun, which is partly run by the WTA with the last name of your Croatian father (Radovcic), came at 14. April 2001 in new Zealand to the world. Her mother had emigrated from China to your grandmother, along with Lulu’s sister. “My native language is English, but when I was little, I spoke with my mother in addition, also Chinese.”
As the eight-year-old Lulu came in with her mother in Switzerland, in the year 2008. She had started playing the Tennis , was discovered from Swiss Tennis and supports. She is now 17 and as the number 20 in the Junior world ranking list of the best-ranked Swiss. Your naturalization took place only last year. “I wanted to ride the Olympic Youth Games, and was only allowed, if I had a Swiss passport.” It is her third Pass, according to the new Zealand and the Croatian.
“Looked up to Federer high”
Why she decided to play for Switzerland? Lulu Sun responds in a slightly bumpy French. This was some time your school before you played more and more tournaments, the Online training was focused, instead of in English. “Switzerland, like me, and I looked up to Federer. There are not so many players in Switzerland.” In Australia, her stepfather takes care of in addition to your mother to you, a certain Sinclair Hoffmann, of German descent, but growing up in England. The two have enlarged the family now with two boys. He does not consider himself as your Coach, to help her, but in career planning and in everyday life, he says.
Lulu Sun lives in Founex, near Nyon, in the Vaud countries trained in Geneva and partly in Nyon, but also in the USA (Naples). The left-hander is now classified as N2 and the number 15 in the country in the WTA world ranking list, or if you have a rank of 573. “I was able to play last year, all the Grand Slam tournaments, and it was a good experience,” she says. This year, she wanted to give everything, if possible a win. “But I’m already glad to be once in a quarter-final.”
In the quarter-final they met in the night on today for the first time on the Russian Anastasia Tichonowa. It was their fifth single in this tournament, and in case of big heat, she lost it 6:7, 6:4, 4:6.
Lulu Sun has clear goals: “I want to be a professional, that is why I play tournaments this year and more on the world ranking list, by that I mean classifying verb essere” Before the Australian Open, she played such a ITF tournament in Adelaide, where she won qualified, one round and the double, then another Junior tournament. “In the meantime, I’m already four weeks in Australia,” she says with a laugh. (Tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet)
Created: 24.01.2019, 03:19 PM
