The new prodigy of world tennis shines at the US Open from China via Serbia

He has star qualities at just 16 years old. He has demonstrated it in the junior Grand Slam this season, also winning his first two professional tournaments, both W15 in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt), modest but encouraging for his projection. She was born in the Chinese town of Shenzhen, she has been established in Serbia for a long time, with her coach Goran Zivitic.

He finished the previous year by winning the Orange Bowl at just 15 years old, in his debut as J500 from Fort Lauderdale. A preview of his current season. They have managed to recover from two tough defeats, in the Roland Garros finals, with the Czech Alisa Oktiabrevaand Wimbledon, against the Russian Anna Pushkareva.

From the grass of London to the hard court of New York, where Xinran Sun He was finally able to claim victory in a ‘big’ one. He won the final 6-4, 4-6 and 6-0 in 1h.47′. The triumph of a true number one.

A child prodigy to follow. They have won 35 of their 38 matches. Occupy the square 599 in the world rankingwhen he is beginning to measure his strength in the lowest echelon of professionals. Where they all go through before reaching the big racket events.

She is the second Chinese tennis player to triumph in the US Open junior, after Xiyu Wang in 2018. In a Grand Slam that had his compatriot Qinwen Zheng as the protagonist by reaching the quarterfinals from the previous phase. A heroine, finalist of the absolute Australian Open, Olympic champion in Paris 2024. Like Sun, completing her training in Europe, in her case she did it in Barcelona with her still coach Pere Riba.