Donna Vekic defeats Lulu Sun 5-7 6-4 6-1 in the quarter in London on Tuesday. This will be her most significant achievement in this event. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 4th round in 2018. Here you can see her history at this event.
Donna added to her prize money £ 340,000 after winning this match. She has already won £ 715,000 till now in the tournament. If she wins the next match, Vekic will add £ 685,000 to her earnings to get in total £ 1,400,000.
Highlights Donna Vekic vs. Lulu Sun Wimbledon – London
Vekic’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:08
After this match, the head to head between Vekic and Sun is 0-0.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Kiwi clinched in the 11th game (6-5) before ultimately winning the set (7-5).
They contested 95 points. This was a hard-fought set and finally LuluAnke won only 1 point more than the Croatian (48-47). Sun lost 22 points on serve (36-22). On the other side, Donna conceded 12 points on serve (25-12).
Vekic won the set after she broke LuluAnke in the 8th (5-3) and in the 10th (6-4) game. LuluAnke tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. Anyhow, Donna kept the focus to win the set 6-4.
Vekic failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 40.
Vekic was perfect in converting all her break points in the 8th (4-3 15-40) and the 10th game (5-4 30-40). On the other side, Sun converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 9th game (3-5 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 54 points. The Croatian was the winner of the set after clinching 8 points more than Sun (31-23). Donna surrendered 8 points on serve (21-8). On the other side, LuluAnke conceded 10 points on serve (15-10).
Vekic came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Lulu Sun in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Donna managed to strengthen her lead after breaking LuluAnke in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
Vekic won 0 consecutive points in this set from 15-0 1-0 to .
There was a pivotal moment in this set when Donna won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to bring the score from 0-0 to 5-0.
Donna was perfect in converting all her break points in the 2nd (1-0 0-40) and the 4th game (3-0 30-40). On the other side, the Croatian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 32 points. Donna conquered the set after winning 16 points more than LuluAnke (24-8). Donna was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (16-2). In addition, on the other side, Sun conceded 8 points on serve (6-8).
Tennis Scores in Wimbledon
- Peter TorebkoTorebko – Jan MertlMertl (7-62 6-4)
- Lukas RosolRosol – Pascal BrunnerBrunner (7-5 6-1)
- Tadeas ParoulekParoulek – Marko MiladinovicMiladinovic (3-6 6-2 6-1)
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alexander VasilenkoVasilenko (6-2 6-3)
- Donna VekicVekic – Lulu SunSun (5-7 6-4 6-1)
Upcoming matches
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (4-2) – H2H details and stats
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (2-2) – H2H details and stats
- Lulu SunSun – Donna VekicVekic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-3) – H2H details and stats
