ZHUHAI. Soon-Woo Kwon stuns Pouille in the 1st round of the Zhuhai Open

Soon-Woo Kwon stuns Lucas Pouille 7-6⁴ 6-2 in the 1^st round in Zhuhai on Wednesday. Kwon will play Damir Dzumhur in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Finally, Kwon won the tiebreak at 4.

2^nd set.

Soon-Woo in this set was in much better shape than the French Player and therefore he won 6-2 after breaking the French Player in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Kwon scored 81 points vs. the French Player’s 62 points.

Kwon served pretty well to win 85% of the points (35/41) behind his first serve, and he won 68% points (13/19) on his second serve. Kwon won this match even if he was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points as he converted only 29% (2/7). On the other side, Lucas wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Kwon and Pouille is 1-0 for Soon-Woo.

Next Match: Soon-Woo Kwon vs. Damir Dzumhur – stats

Kwon will face Dzumhur in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Soon-Woo Kwon and Damir Dzumhur since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Zhuhai

• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (7-6⁵ 6-1) – See score progression
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Lucas PouillePouille (7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – John MillmanMillman (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Pablo AndujarAndujar – Steve JohnsonJohnson (2-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (5-7 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Andy MurrayMurray – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 6-7⁶ 6-1) – See score progression
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Casper RuudRuud (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Ze ZhangZhang (7-6⁶ 7-5) – See score progression
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Di WuWu – Tatsuma ItoIto (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Pablo AndujarAndujar – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-1) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Cameron NorrieNorrie (1-0) – See H2H details
• Di WuWu – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – See H2H details
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (0-0) – See H2H details
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (1-0) – See H2H details
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Andy MurrayMurray (0-0) – See H2H details