Lulu Sun Calls Time On Her US Open Campaign Due To Injury

Lulu Sun will not play on another Grand Slam Centre Court in 2024 after being forced to retire with an injury from her first-round US Open match on Monday night (Tuesday NZ time).

Her opponent, Lucia Bronzetti, who Sun recently beat in the qualifiers of Cincinnati, won the first set 6-3 before Lulu retired.

The single set had several interruptions and quirks. Up until 3-3, there was constant disruption from the court next door, as the noisy New York crowd watched a nail-biter where American Chris Eubanks lost in a fifth-set tiebreaker to Arthur Rinderknech.

Still on serve at 3-4, Sun called for the physio, which led to a medical timeout of around 10 minutes. The physio appeared to be focusing on stretching out Sun’s hip.

There wasn’t much play at all after the medical timeout, as there was then a rain delay of about 20 minutes.

Sun was broken immediately when play resumed, looking frustrated as she felt her mobility was compromised.

She still went down swinging. Unable to move well, she came in on every serve, sometimes scoring screeching winners and ended up with two break points to get it back on serve.

Bronzetti composed herself and saw out the set, where a clearly disappointed Sun called time on her US Open campaign.

Sun competed for the Monterrey title in Mexico only two days ago, giving her and her team just one day to make the trek to New York.

Bronzetti will play the winner out of world #2 and potential favorite to win the title, Aryna Sabalenka, and Aussie qualifier Priscilla Hon.