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A second round defeat for tennis player Lulu Sun at the Madrid Open

A second round defeat for tennis player Lulu Sun at the Madrid Open

26 April 2025

The New Zealander's been beaten 6-3 6-2 by 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin at the clay court event.

Top seed Aryna Sabalenka , third seed Jessica Pegula and sixth seed Jasmine Paolini have all advanced.

In the men's event - eighth seed Holger Rune has withdrawn injured after losing the first set of his second round match against Italian Flavio Cobolli .

Those safely through include Alexander Zverev, Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton and Casper Ruud - Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev won via walkover.

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21 Apr: Holger Rune beats Carlos Alcaraz in Barcelona Open final by channelling Novak Djokovic

10 Apr: The wait goes on for Novak Djokovic in his quest to join Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer as the third man with a century of tennis titles in the post-1968 Open era

06 Apr: In tennis, top seed Jessica Pegula has set up a title decider against 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin at the Charleston Open

29 Mar: Czech tennis player Jakub Men?ík will meet Novak Djokovic in the Miami Open men's final

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27 Mar: 19-year-old Alexandra Eala has become the talk of world tennis, after her third straight win over a major champion at the Miami Open

10 Mar: New Zealander Lulu Sun has been knocked out in the third round by 2024 Olympics gold medallist Qinwen Zhang at the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament

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