Sun first round winner Madrid Open
- Dave Worsley
- 6 hours ago
- 1 min read
Lulu Sun has put on an impressive performance to win in three sets over French woman Varvara Gracheva at the Madrid Open WTA 1000.
Twenty-four-year-old Sun ranked 45 defeated the 66th ranked Gracheva 3-6 6-1 6-4 in one hour 54 minutes on the Arantxa Sanchez Stadium.
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Sun was broken in the first game of the match, however she responded perfectly and ultimately turned the match around.
Sun then eased through the second set but was broken early in the third but then struggled to get back in the match as Sun broke her opponent a couple of times to take the match.
She won four of seven break point opportunities and was broken twice and had one of her better serving days as she finished with three aces and just one double fault winning over 78 percent of her first serves.
The victory over Gracheva was Sun's fourth win of the year after she struggled to claim a victory until her fifth tournament at Abu Dhabi.
Sun will now face former Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin in the second round. Kenin is currently ranked 32.
New Zealand's Erin Routliffe and Canadian Gaby Dabrowski are the top seeds in the women's doubles and face Romanian Sorana Christia and Russia Anna Kaylinskaya in the first round.
Routliffe and Dabrowski won their first title on clay together last week at the Stuttgart.