Wimbledon: Sun sets for Qinwen Zheng as the eighth seed exits in first round

New Zealander qualifier Lulu Sun reached the second round of Wimbledon by edging out Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 8 seed, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Monday.

Zheng, this year’s Australian Open runner-up, is the latest big name to fall in the lower half of the women’s singles draw at Wimbledon. Earlier on Monday, No 3 seed Aryna Sabalenka and No 16 seed Victoria Azarenka withdrew due to shoulder injuries.

Sun’s victory is her first at a Grand Slam.

Sun, ranked No 123, will face the winner of the match between Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck and Ukrainian qualifier Yulia Starodubtseva next.

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Tennis Majors

London (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 50.000.000, most recent results first):

• Clara Burel beat Eva Lys (Q): 6-2, 6-4
• Daria Saville beat Peyton Stearns: 6-4, 6-2
• Naomi Osaka (WC) beat Diane Parry: 6-1, 1-6, 6-4
• Madison Keys (12) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Diana Shnaider beat Karolina Pliskova: 4-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Yafan Wang beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-0, 3-6, 6-4
• Jasmine Paolini (7) beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 7-5, 6-3
• Arantxa Rus beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 6-3
• Elise Mertens beat Nao Hibino: 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Daria Kasatkina (14) beat Shuai Zhang: 6-3, 6-0
• Marta Kostyuk (18) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 6-3, 6-2
• Anca Todoni (Q) beat Olga Danilovic (LL): 7-5, 6-1
• Greet Minnen beat Heather Watson (WC): 7-5, 6-4
• Varvara Gracheva beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-3, 6-1
• Dayana Yastremska (28) beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-1, 7-6 (1)
• Maria Sakkari (9) beat McCartney Kessler (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (25) beat Taylor Townsend: 7-6 (4), 6-1
• Lin Zhu beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-0, 6-4
• Magda Linette vs. Elina Svitolina
• Ons Jabeur vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Katie Volynets
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Magdalena Frech vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Camila Osorio vs. Lauren Davis
• Danielle Collins vs. Clara Tauson
• Francesca Jones vs. Petra Martic
• Iga Swiatek vs. Sofia Kenin
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Jule Niemeier
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Alycia Parks
• Oceane Dodin vs. Daria Snigur
• Robin Montgomery vs. Olivia Gadecki
• Mayar Sherif vs. Dalma Galfi
• Marina Stakusic vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Angelique Kerber
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Katie Boulter vs. Tatjana Maria
• Rebeka Masarova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Julia Riera
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Panna Udvardy
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Elena Rybakina vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
• Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Bernarda Pera vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Caroline Garcia vs. Anna Blinkova
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Jessica Pegula
• Xinyu Wang vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Harriet Dart vs. Zhuoxuan Bai
• Laura Siegemund vs. Kateryna Baindl
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Ana Bogdan
• Bianca Andreescu vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Qiang Wang vs. Emma Navarro
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Sonay Kartal
• Sara Errani vs. Linda Noskova
• Brenda Fruhvirtova vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Paula Badosa vs. Karolina Muchova
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Coco Gauff
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Yuriko Lily Miyazaki
• Elsa Jacquemot vs. Sloane Stephens
• Alison Van Uytvanck vs. Yulia Starodubtseva
• Renata Zarazua vs. Emma Raducanu
• Emina Bektas vs. Erika Andreeva
• Donna Vekic vs. Xiyu Wang