Sun breaks through for New Zealand at Wimbledon

Lulu Sun on Friday became the first woman from New Zealand to reach the Wimbledon last 16 with a straight-sets victory over China's Zhu Lin.

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Sun, 23, who had to come through qualifying to make her debut at the All England Club won 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (8/6).

Despite her lowly ranking of 123 in the world, Sun had knocked out Chinese eighth seed and Australian Open runner-up Zheng Qinwen in the first round.

She will face either Greek ninth seed Maria Sakkari or Britain's former US Open champion Emma Raducanu for a place in the quarterfinals.