Kwon Soon-woo failed to cross the wall of the first round of the Australian Open [AP=연합뉴스]
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Kwon Soon-woo (24, Dangjin City Hall) was eliminated in the first round of the first major tournament this season, the Australian Open Tennis Tournament (A$80 million, about 68.9 billion won in prize money).
Kwon Soon-woo, the 97th place in the world, lost a set score of 0-3 (4-6, 1-6, 1-6) to Nashikokinakis (267th place, Australia) in the first round of the men’s singles final held in Melbourne, Australia on the 9th. He participated in the Australian Open for the third time following 2018 and last year, but all of them were disappointed that they could not cross the first round. Kwon Soon-woo’s best performance in the major tournament was last year’s second round of the US Open.
Kwon Soon-woo won Australian dollars (about 86 million won) in prize money just by participating in the first round of the Australian Open. He competes in the French Open, which will be held three months later, and tries again to win his second major tournament.
I was anxious from the start of the first set. In his first serve game, he did not win a point and allowed the break. He got the first and last breakpoint in the opponent’s sub-game behind by 4-5, but he couldn’t save his chance and gave him the first set.
The first sub-game was given out in the second set, and the flow of the game was completely taken away by dedicating four games in a row to the opponent in the game score 1-2. After that, he couldn’t use much power and was completely defeated in 1 hour and 33 minutes.
Kokinakis, who is 1m tall and 93cm tall, overpowered Kwon Soon-woo in sub ace (19-2) this day. The current ranking is 260th, but he is the player who climbed to 69th in the world in 2015. At the 2018 Miami Open, it also caused a tumult to defeat Roger Federer (Switzerland), who was the number one in the world at the time.
He took a whole rest last season due to injury, but won his first major singles final after returning to Kwon Soon-woo on this day.
Reporter Bae Youngeun [email protected]
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