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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1001/
- Published: 2024-07-09T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-09T04:29:34.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Culture, General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-20 04:39

> The list of things the tennis world has yet to [learn about Lulu Sun is long](https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350336264/lulu-sun-stays-humble-wimbledon-run-makes-her-global-star?ref=goodoil.news).  
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> The journey of the 123rd-ranked Sun, who is competing in just her second main draw of a Grand Slam, from the qualifying tournament to a quarterfinal berth at Wimbledon – where the women’s tournament has seen top seed after top seed ousted – came as a surprise.  
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> Here, then, is a starter course.  
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> Sun, 23, was born in a town of 2538 on New Zealand’s South Island to a Chinese mother and Croatian father, though her stepfather is German-English and hails from about 320km down the road from Centre Court, where she unseated 2021 US Open champion and British darling Emma Raducanu in the fourth round on Sunday.  
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> Her family left that small town in New Zealand when she was young for the slightly larger town of Shanghai, where Sun spent a few years before moving to Geneva.  
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> After all that cultural education, it came time for the trilingual Sun – who speaks bubbly, polished English with nary a hint of an accent, as well as French and Mandarin – to continue her academic education at her mother’s prodding.  
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> Naturally, this citizen of the world chose to attend the University of Texas.  
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> Stuff

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